‘Mac Jones Can’t Throw Deep’?

Posted on | November 27, 2021 | No Comments

Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd posted a video rebutting the frequently heard criticism that Mac Jones lacks arm strength. Because of NFL policy, I can’t embed that video here, but you can click the link and watch five minutes of Jones’s NFL highlights so far his rookie year. What infuriates me about this “weak arm” nonsense is that, as an Alabama fan, I watched Mac Jone repeatedly hit long passes on the way to an undefeated season and the national championship. Watch the highlights from the SEC title game against Florida:

Jones completed 33 of 43 passes (76.7%) for 418 yards and five touchdowns in that game. Watch his 31-yard touchdown pass to Devonta Smith here and tell me Jones has a “weak arm” — it’s absurd. If you’re not yet convinced, watch these highlights of Mac Jones in the national championship game against Ohio State:

Mack Jones completed 36 of 45 passes (80%) for 464 yards and five touchdowns against Ohio State. Can Mac throw deep? Watch this pass from his own 25 where he hits Devonta Smith at the Ohio State 47.

Now that the Patriots are 7-4, riding a five-game winning streak — with Mac Jones far and away this year’s best rookie quarterback in the NFL — he is under a microscope of media attention. Much of the credit for New England’s turnaround after a 2-4 start goes to the Patriots’ defense, and there are still analysts who express doubt whether Jones has what it takes to be a truly great pro quarterback. He will have the opportunity to silence those critics during the next four games, when the Patriots play the 8-3 Tennessee Titans on Sunday, followed by a Dec. 6 Monday night road game against the 7-4 Buffalo Bills, followed by a bye week before a Dec. 18 game at the 6-5 Indianapolis Colts, and then a Dec. 26 home game with Buffalo. It is entirely possible that the Patriots could win all four of those games, and Mac Jones will have plenty of chances to prove his critics wrong. Make it happen, Mac. Roll Tide!

Category: Football

Darrell Brooks: Menace to Society

Posted on | November 27, 2021 | No Comments

We are learning more about the perpetrator of the Waukesha massacre, including his arrest for battery in Fulton County, Georgia:

Police say the man accused of plowing into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin and killing six people was arrested in Union City earlier this year.
Police say Darrell E. Brooks, 39, drove his SUV through a parade in Waukesha last weekend. Five adults and an 8-year-old boy were killed and at least 60 other people were injured.
Brooks has been charged with five counts of intentional homicide, and prosecutors are expected to file a sixth charge.
A witness told police he heard Brooks hitting his girlfriend through the wall. The witness said he confronted Brooks, who then called the police and claimed the witness was harassing the couple.
Police were able to determine that Brooks was the aggressor and that his girlfriend had injuries consistent with domestic abuse.
Brooks was taken to the East Point Jail. It’s unclear what happened to the case after that or if Brooks was convicted of anything.

The New York Post did a deep dive on Brooks that found “his life of crime started 22 years ago when he was just 17 years old.” Among other charges, “in July 2020, he fired a gun at his nephew during a fight over a cellphone,” and police “found Brooks with a stolen Beretta 9mm handgun and a clear plastic baggie with three multi-colored methamphetamine pills inside.” Considering that Brooks was already a convicted felon, prohibited from possessing a firearm, you might think this incident would have resulted in a long prison sentence. Instead, “he was released in February 2021 on a $500 bail,” which is when he went to Georgia and was busted for beating his girlfriend in a motel about 10 miles from the Atlanta airport. With charges pending in Georgia — where officials apparently didn’t realize Brooks was wanted in Nevada for violating terms of his release as a convicted sex offender — Brooks returned to Milwaukee, where he soon committed further violence:

Brooks allegedly accosted the woman and knocked her cellphone out of her hand and then went after her in his Ford Escape when she fled.
He caught up with her at a BP gas station about a half mile from the motel and demanded she get in his car, court records allege. When she refused, he struck her in the face and then ran her over with his car, leaving the woman with “swelling to her lip and dry blood on her face” and “tire tracks on her left pants leg,” police said.
The ex-girlfriend later told cops that Brooks had allegedly threatened to kill her on multiple occasions, had previously tried to choke her and was jealous and controlling, according to police reports obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Brooks denied the allegations and suggested to police the woman made them up because she was drunk.
He ended up being charged with recklessly endangering safety, bail jumping, battery and disorderly conduct in the incident but was given an “inappropriately low” bail of $1,000, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm later said, leaving him free to wreak havoc on the Christmas parade about three weeks later.

So here is the timeline:

July 2020: Fires gun at nephew in Milwaukee.
February 2021: Released on $500 bail.
May 2021: Arrested for battery in Georgia.
November 2, 2021: Runs over girlfriend in Milwaukee.
November 19, 2021: Released on $1,000 bail.

On the day of his murderous rampage, Nov. 22, was again engaged in domestic violence, attacking an ex-girlfriend in Waukesha. She was seen “running away from him with a black eye just moments before the carnage unfolded.” Before police could respond to that attack, Brooks had fled the scene, and ignored officers who tried to stop him as he plowed through the parade route, killing six people and injuring dozens more.

As Glenn Reynolds observes, this is all a result of Democrat policies.

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.25.21

Posted on | November 27, 2021 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Violent Offenders In Jail Would Be Unfair
EBL: Sharpe’s Rifles, Mayor Of Kingstown, and Stephen Sondheim RIP
Twitchy: After Releasing Oil From SPR To Lower Energy Prices, Administration Moves To Raise Energy Prices
Louder With Crowder: Epstein Update! Huge List Of Alleged Conspirators!
Vox Popoli: The Four Clashing Civilizations, Black Friday Books, and A Very Dangerous Game
According To Hoyt: Government Failures Cause Kyles, also, Drowning In Chocolate
Monster Hunter Nation: Do I Unfairly Paint The Left With A Broad Brush?, also, WriterDojo S1E14 – Supporter Spectacular, Round 1!
Gab News: Shop In The Parallel Economy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Discipline Begets Discipline, also, Use The COVID Tyranny To Escape From The Larger Tyranny
American Conservative: How To Destroy A Democracy
American Greatness: Newsletter Peddlers Offended By Real Journalism Quit, also, Countering Red China’s Grand Strategy
American Power: DJIA Suffers Worst Trading Day Of 2021
American Thinker: Destroying Democracy By “Saving Democracy”, also, The Media’s Chickens Come Home To Roost In Wisconsin
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Book Review Friday
Babalu Blog: Member Of Cuba’s Most Powerful Family Flees Into Exile, Reveals Secrets About Life Atop The Communist Pyramid, also, Cuban Priest Alberto Reyes Speaks Out Against Dictatorship, Warns Of “Raging River Of Discontent”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For 11/26
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 3B Rocket Launches Military Comsat
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Forget Sweden, also, Focused Protection As Opposed To Lockdowns
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: NYT Fears Democrats Will Pay Again For Obama, also, Branch Covidians Ramp Up The Fear Again
First Street Journal: The Mindlessness Of The Leftist Elites
Gates Of Vienna: Time To Panic Over The Latest Regularly Scheduled COVID Variant, also, “We’ll Wait Until Germany Takes Us In”
The Geller Report: Biden Approval Collapses To Single Digit, also, Leftist Media Who Incited Carnage Won’t Cover Waukesha Parade Attack As Death Toll Mounts
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Cosmic Turkey, and Shortages Are Becoming Serious
Hollywood In Toto: Why Procession Is Unlike Any Other Film Tackling Sexual Abuse, also, Howard Stern Waves The White Flag On “Freedom”
The Lid: Woke Salvation Army Won’t Take Whites’ Donations Unless They Offer “Sincere Apology” For Being Racists
Legal Insurrection: Freeing Britney Spears Is A victory For Natural Rights, also, Indiana Educator Who Exposed CRT In Curriculum Placed On Leave
Outkick: Ole Miss Cracks Miss. State 31-21 In The Egg Bowl, The Advice Jon Gruden Gave Derek Carr That Helped The Raiders Beat The Cowboys, and AT&T Stadium Concession Worker Fights Cowboys Fan In Wild Thanksgiving Throwdown
Power Line: Oh Joy! Another COVID Variant!, Thoughts From The Ammo Line, and Xi Who Must Be Obeyed
Shark Tank: Melania Trump Makes Visit To Florida Foster Care Organization
Shot In The Dark: Great Job, What Chimera Is This?, and Diagnosis – Malpractice
STUMP: Movember Inspiration – My Dad & The Sex Gap In Mortality
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Pentagon Stands Up New Aerial Phenomena Group, and Woman Charged With Plot To Steal $400,000 From Elderly & Veterans
Transterrestrial Musings: Climate Models
Victory Girls: Chappelle Holiday Roasts High School Students For The Win, also, Notre Dame Cathedral Restoration Going Woke
Volokh Conspiracy: University Administrators On The Rittenhouse Verdict
Weasel Zippers: Cook Report Shifts Democrat Senate Seats In AZ, GA, & NV To “Toss-Up”, Dems Lament The Coming Mid-Term Doom, also, Nantucket Man Reportedly Gives Biden The Finger
The Federalist: This Thanksgiving We Learned It’s Time To Banish Roger Goodell To Canada, also, L.A. Public Schools Teach Students That Celebrating Thanksgiving Is Evil
Mark Steyn: Light At The End Of The Tunnel, also, A Mix-up In The Mixing Up

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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 11.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 26, 2021 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I brought home the Butterball Turkey dinner from Raley’s earlier in the week and spent a couple of hours warming it up yesterday. All very tasty and now I have leftovers for the next fortnight. How was your Thanksgiving?
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Komi’s mom in the kitchen

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Do You Think A Woke DA Can Change?
Doug Ross: Capitalism Is The Ultimate Form Of Humanism
EBL: Vintage Thanksgiving
Twitchy: “Tell Us You’re A Racist Elitist Without Telling Us You’re A Racist Elitist”
Louder With Crowder: Firefighter (Allegedly) Drops Trou, Wipes Butt With Vax Mandate Order
Vox Popoli: The Salvation Army Converges, also, They Tried To Cancel Thanksgiving

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Let’s Get Rid Of The Federal Government & All Sing Kumbaya
American Greatness: Losing Confidence In The Pillars Of Our Civilization, also, For The Holidays, Give The Gift Of Grace
American Power: The War On Thanksgiving
American Thinker: Why The 400th Anniversary Of Thanksgiving Matters, also, The Rejection Of Communism On Thanksgiving
Animal Magnetism: Happy Thanksgiving!
Babalu Blog: Apartheid Tourists Begin Arriving In Plague-Stricken Cuba, also, Over 15,000 Cubans Have Arrived Illegally From Mexico In The Last 15 Months
BattleSwarm: Things To Be Grateful For – Salt
Behind The Black: Russia Launches Military Recon Sat, also, Red China Launches Classified Military Satellite
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Happy Thanksgiving
Don Surber: USA 3, BLM 0, also, Erasing The Waukesha Massacre In Real Time
First Street Journal: Killadelphia! The City of Brotherly Love Ties For The Gold
Gates Of Vienna: Nun Danket Alle Gott
The Geller Report: “The Mouse Didn’t Roar”, also, Democrats’ Solution To Inflation? Charge Your Guests & Don’t Buy Turkey
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Sonification Of The Bubble Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: C’mon C’mon & Encanto, also, Debra Messing Calls Out Corrupt Media Coverage Of Terror Attack
The Lid: The Top Ten Reasons You Shouldn’t Talk Politics On Thanksgiving
Legal Insurrection: JMU Instagram Page Says Rittenhouse Killed Two Black People, also, Women’s March Provides Unexpected Thanksgiving Hilarity
Nebraska Energy Observer: It’s Thanksgiving, NEO! also, Thanksgiving History
Outkick: LeBron Has Pacers Fans Ejected, Still Silent On Red China, We Should Be Thankful For America, and Lions Remain Winless, Fall To Bears On Thanksgiving
Power Line: America’s First Socialist Republic, Why People Hate The News Media, and Will Disparate Impact Destroy America?
Shark Tank: Combat Vet To Launch Investigation On Biden’s Arming Of Terrorists
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving 2021!
This Ain’t Hell: A Modern Thanksgiving Tradition Of Sorts
Transterrestrial Musings: Happy Thanksgiving
Victory Girls: Guilt Served Up On Thanksgiving Plates This Year
Volokh Conspiracy: Today In Supreme Court History, 11/25/1757
Weasel Zippers: Biden Spends Thanksgiving At Billionaire’s Mansion Complete With Servants & Security Guards, also, Before Taking Cokehead Son & Second Wife To Billionaire’s For Thanksgiving, Joe Biden Says You Need To “Get Some Perspective”
The Federalist: No, Thanksgiving Isn’t About Genocide & Violence
Mark Steyn: Over The River & Through The Woods

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Category: Linkagery

Thanksgiving in Georgia

Posted on | November 26, 2021 | No Comments

We spent Thursday on the road, down I-81 and then went through the Smoky Mountains on I-26 before heading south into north Georgia, near the site of America’s first gold rush, to spend the holiday weekend with all of our kids and grandchildren — that’s six kids, one son-in-law, three daughters-in-law, one girlfriend, and five grandchildren. That’s a total of 18 people, plus both of my brothers, a good-sized crowd of McCains.

While I was out on the road, the news kept happening:

“Killadelphia” recorded its 500th homicide of the year.
Dr. Allyson “Allyn” Walker, the transgender professor who wants to “destigmatize” pedophilia, announced she would be leaving her position at Virginia’s Old Dominion University.
Officials in South Africa announced the discovery of a new “heavily mutated” variant of COVID-19, and British officials have prohibited flights from Southern Africa.

Violent death, sexual perversion, pandemic disease — the apocalypse keeps rolling along. And I’m in Georgia, enjoying a Thanksgiving feast.

We should be more grateful than we are for the blessings of a normal life, even if we are paying $1.20 more for a gallon of gas (#LetsGoBrandon).

It’s easier to complain about our misfortunes and disappointments — the Raiders beat the Cowboys and the Bills beat the Saints — than to be grateful that our lives are basically OK, in an age where it seems it’s becoming more difficult to be basically OK. My daughters just popped into the motel dining room where I’m working, then quickly departed to go do their Black Friday shopping. And I’m grateful they’re basically OK.

Our youngest daughter (Reagan) and youngest son (Emerson) are in college, while the next-youngest (Jefferson) is getting ready for law school next year (awaiting his LSAT scores). Emerson’s already married, as are our three oldest, all of whom are homeowners with kids of their own. All in all, our Victory Through Breeding™ agenda — the McCain Plan for Global Domination — seems to be working out.

Why aim for anything less that Global Domination? Sure, it could take a few generations before my descendants control the world — trust me, I’ve done the arithmetic — but as long as we keep this long-term goal in mind, our tasks in the short term become easier to understand.

The reason I bring this up, of course, is that the source of disappointment is the distance between expectation and reality. Even if our circumstances are objectively good — hey, we’re living the American Dream — we may feel disappointed because results fall short of our expectations, our hopes, our ambitions. The higher our expectations, the more likely we will be disappointed by the reality of our lives. It’s important to keep this in mind, attempting to view our lives objectively, no matter how high our ambitions may be. Considering that my ultimate goal is Global Domination — because why not? — it would be easy to get discouraged by short-term disappointments. For example, we haven’t had a new grandchild since Luca was born two years ago, which represents a lag in the Grandchild Production Quota. When you’re aiming at Global Domination, you tend to think of grandchildren with a statistical graph in mind, charting the output-per-unit calculations and so forth.

Objectively, you see, most people would think five grandkids to be a fine number, but the McCain Plan for Global Domination requires a perspective that evaluates this metric differently than “most people” (who, after all, are destined to be subjugated, according to the Plan).

All sarcasm aside, however, the point is that we have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving that any complaints would seem silly. Here I am, enjoying free coffee and free breakfast at the motel — with free Wifi even! — and certainly it would be churlish for me to complain.

“The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”
— Robert E. Lee

When one considers the hardships and misfortunes that our ancestors endured, how easy and fortunate our lives seem by comparison. We ought never to let discouragement prevent us from working toward a better future — and, of course, by “better,” I mean Global Domination.

Did I mention that everything is “free” at this motel because three nights cost us $500? As always, I would be grateful for readers who remember that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance. This Global Domination stuff ain’t cheap.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Family, Fear. Loathing., Georgia

David Brooks Fisking Day Returns?

Posted on | November 25, 2021 | No Comments

The basic problem with David Brooks is that he hasn’t been punched in the face as often as he deserves to be punched in the face.

Which is to say, repeatedly, on a daily basis.

On two occasions, I happened to be at conferences where David Brooks was a speaker, and in both instances, I walked out of the room, overcome by rage, struggling to resist an urge to rush the stage, grab hold of that swine and pummel him until the cops hauled me off to jail.

Really, what’s a simple assault charge in Washington, D.C.? The city is so overwhelmed with serious violent crime that I doubt I’d get more than probation and a fine for beating up David Brooks, besides which nobody actually likes him. If I went for a jury trial, pro se, I’m pretty sure I could convince twelve honest citizens that clobbering David Brooks should not be considered a crime. Hell, it’s a civic duty. Anyway . . .

This week, Brooks published — in The Atlantic, where else? — an article titled, “The Terrifying Future of the American Right.” What was so “terrifying” about the recent gathering of conservatives in Orlando about which Brooks wrote this lamentable article? Anyone can read his description of the event and try to find something “terrifying,” and good luck with that. What the people at the conference are guilty of, really, is not giving a damn what readers of The Atlantic think about them.

Misanthropic Humanitarian at AOSHQ has further thoughts on Brooks, but unfortunately, none of them involve punching Brooks in the face.

Repeatedly, as he deserves.

Category: David Brooks Fisking Day