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In The Mailbox: 06.22.23

Posted on | June 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.22.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Big Based Book Sale!

Silicon Valley delenda est.

A message from the WEF and HRC

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Keeping Criminals In Jail Is Unfair – Canadian Edition
EBL: House of Representatives Censures Rep. Adam Schiff, also, Titanic Sub Suffered Catastrophic Failure – All are lost
Twitchy: IRS Says Hunter Deducted Hooker Payments From Taxes, Jamie Raskin Calls Party of Lincoln “Party of Luna & Her Luna Followers” , and “Deadnaming” To Become Harassment & A Civil Rights Violation?
Louder With Crowder: Mark Zuckerberg accepts(?) Elon Musk’s challenge to a cage match and this Big Tech Brawl needs to happen
Vox Popoli: So Much for the Wunderwaffen, Those Pesky Mathematics, and Taking the N Out
Stoic Observations: Regression To The Digital Mean

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Did Jesus Jerk Off?
American Conservative: Russia’s Crawling Neighbor
American Greatness: Durham – FBI Ignored Hillary Clinton Plot to Tie Trump to Russia, America Wakes Up to Woke, and The U.S. Transitions from Superpower to Migrant Colony
American Power: Debris From OceansGate Search Confirmed as Coming From External Body of ‘Titan’ Sub
American Thinker: Understand the Biden Plea Deal for What It Is: Evidence, also, Grab Your Wallets – The Reparations Game Is Rigged
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Parrots News
Babalu Blog: As Cubans starve, their fake president and his wife dine at exclusive super-expensive Roman restaurant, Cuban dictatorship signs deal with Italian online merchant to sell Cubans food and medicine in dollars and euros only, and Three imprisoned Cuban women write letters signed in their own blood to Pope Francis pleading for liberation of all political prisoners
BattleSwarm: Louis Rossmann Dings Amazon For Canceling Customer’s Account Over False “Racist Doorbell.” Result: Amazon Cancels Rossmann’s Affiliate Account
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 47 Starlink satellites into orbit, ULA launches Delta-4 Heavy rocket on next-to-last flight, Intelsat and SES end negotiations to merge, Update on SpaceX’s work leading to next Starship/Superheavy test launch, and Why is this rare? School board members react in horror when hearing the porn they allow in schools
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: “…the final theme present…throughout the armed forces today is KAFCA, pronounced Kafca (since this is a military book…
Da Tech Guy: The Celtics Trade Away The Thing They Need Most, also, Progressives are trying to replace Independence Day with Juneteenth
Don Surber: Biden Is Funding The Grooming
First Street Journal: The pot calling the kettle black: Jenice Armstrong tells us that cable news networks are biased
The Geller Report: United States House Votes to Censure Liar Adam Schiff For Misleading The Public, Lunatic Dems Break Out in Chaos, Cheering The Traitor, Media, City Leaders SILENT About Children Found at Trans party With Drugs, Sex Toys, Dead Man in South Boston Apartment: ‘Sickening’, and Newly Discovered Email: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky KNEW Covid Vaccine Didn’t Work But Still Mandated the Shots
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Sonification: Stephan’s Quintet, and Another Milestone
Hollywood In Toto: Maximum Truth Shreds Politics of Personal Destruction, also, Is Asteroid City a Sly Take on Pandemic Lockdowns?
The Lid: Elon Musk Challenges Mark Zuckerberg To A Cage Fight — And He Accepts
Legal Insurrection: “There is not a single substantive piece of information in the [Steele] dossier that has ever been corroborated”, Titanic Submersible Was Destroyed in ‘Catastrophic Implosion’ Killing 5 Aboard Instantly, Title IX Complaint: Wisconsin School Failed to Act After ‘Trans Female’ Student Exposed Himself to Female Students in Locker Room Shower, Disney’s Diversity Chief Steps Down as Company Struggles With String of Failures, and Trump Obsessed Psychiatrist Bandy Lee Loses Another Lawsuit Against Yale
Nebraska Energy Observer: A definite cooling
Outkick: NC State Swimmer Kylee Alons Says She Changed In A Storage Closet To Avoid Being Exposed To Lia Thomas At NCAA Championships, Elon Musk Challenges Mark Zuckerberg To Cage Fight, No, The Yankees Aren’t Going To Put Names On The Back Of Their Jerseys Despite Recent Backlash, Wyndham Clark Says Fans Chanting For Fowler And McIlroy ‘Pissed’ Him Off At U.S. Open, Motivated Him To Victory, and NHL Teams Will Not Wear Pride Night Uniforms In Warm-Ups Next Season, And It’s All The Woke Mob’s Fault
Power Line: His name is Hunter Biden, Is the cover-up unraveling?, and A Painter passing through, Senate edition
Shark Tank: DeSantis Sues Biden Over State’s Education Reforms
Shot In The Dark: A Thousand Points Of Laser Focus, also, Master Debaters
This Ain’t Hell: Look at New Zealand’s gun confiscation by a Canadian, Music festival gunman identified as U.S. Soldier, and OceanGate safety concerns raised years before Titanic sub incident
Transterrestrial Musings: A Question For The Climate Crazies, Henry Petroski, and Lab-Grown Chicken
Victory Girls: Elie Mystal Would Love to See Justice Alito ‘Disappear’
Volokh Conspiracy: “Moms for Liberty” Member’s Suit Against School Board for Reporting Critic to Justice Dep’t Can Proceed
Watts Up With That: Biden EPA Appointee Under Ethics Scrutiny (for the least of his transgressions), also, Peak Climate? Global Warming will Make Dogs Hate Humans
The Federalist: Defense Secretary Austin Needs To Obey Orders And End The Military Vaccine Mandate, Whistleblower: FBI Tipped Off ‘People Very Close’ To Joe And Hunter Before IRS Investigative Team’s ‘Day Of Action’, Time Is Running Out For Congress And States To Defuse Biden’s Election-Takeover Bomb, FBI Knew Hunter Biden’s Laptop Was Authentic A Year Before Pressuring Big Tech To Censor It, A Closer Look At Black Lives Matter’s ‘Bankruptcy’ Shows Radical Leftists Still Have Millions In Their Coffers, and Revisiting The Racialist Nonsense Espoused By Biden’s Pick For Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chair
Mark Steyn: Hide Your Kids

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‘Five Passengers Set Sail That Day for a Three-Hour Tour … a Three-Hour Tour’

Posted on | June 22, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Five Passengers Set Sail That Day for a Three-Hour Tour … a Three-Hour Tour’

Why did the Gilligan’s Island theme song come to mind when I was watching TV report the loss of the OceanGate Titan?

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that the debris found of the Titanic tourist submersible Titan “is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.” All passengers of the Titan are presumed to have died.
In a press conference on Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger of the U.S. Coast Guard said, “The debris field is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.”
The debris found included parts of the sub’s pressure chamber, including a nose cone and the front and back end of the pressure hull.
The debris was located 1,600 feet from the Titanic’s bow, but it could not have come from the Titanic itself, according to Mauger.
Mauger said the implosion “would have generated significant broadband sound down there that the sonar buoys would have picked up.”
“This is an incredibly unforgiving environment down there on the sea floor, and the debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Mauger stated.
He added that they would try to recover the bodies of the passengers, stating, “we’ll continue to work and continue to search the area down there, but I don’t have an answer for prospects at this time.”
OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the Titan, issued a statement acknowledging the deaths of the five passengers of the submersible, which began its descent into the North Atlantic on Sunday to visit the wreck site of the RMS Titanic, but lost contact with the surface less than two hours later.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the company stated.

Dying in a “catastrophic implosion” is obviously much worse than being stranded on an “uncharted desert isle,” and I mean no disrespect to Stockton Rush, who I’m sure was a “mighty sailing man.”

My irreverent (some would say tasteless) sense of humor routinely got me in trouble during my school days, but you may be shocked to learn that mine was not the worst take on this deep-sea catastrophe.

The New Republic has since deleted the tweet, but the article is still online, with the implication that Stockton Rush deserved to die because he’d donated to Republican campaigns. Of course, one can be critical of this kind of high-end tourism, and I was (“As a Commentary on Our Decadent Elite, the Missing Luxury Sub Is Near Perfect”), but it never occurred to me to research the political affiliations of those involved.

Yet as bad as The New Republic‘s take was, it was not actually the worst. That honor was claimed by MSNBC personality Elie Mystal.



 

 

Category: Media Bias

White Privilege or … Biden Privilege?

Posted on | June 22, 2023 | Comments Off on White Privilege or … Biden Privilege?

Decided against making this another Aspiring Rapper Update, but the lawyer for imprisoned Florida rapper Kodak Black makes an important point: Nobody else — certainly not a black man — would have gotten the sweetheart deal Hunter Biden got from the Department of Justice.

Perhaps this would be an appropriate place to admit that I am not always unbiased and objective when it comes to crime. The other day I was lamenting the fact that New England Patriots cornerback Jack Jones had gotten busted on a weapons charge for trying to carry two pistols onto a flight in his carry-on luggage. This was a crime of phenomenal stupidity by Jones, who was expected to be a starter for the Patriots this season. Here’s a look at Jones as a rookie last year getting a pick-six off future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers:

The lawyer for Jones points out that he’s innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but his future as a Patriot is in jeopardy. As a Patriots fan, I was remarking on how unfortunate this situation is, but my brother Kirby responded that the court can’t grant leniency in the case of an NFL star, or else everybody would demand similar leniency. Legal experts say a case like Jones’s would normally result in a sentence of three-and-a-half years, which may mean that this promising young cornerback can kiss his NFL career good-bye and . . . Well, who’s fault is it?

Not mine. Not Bill Belichick’s. You can’t blame the cops or the judge, because they’re just doing their job. Do we want people bringing loaded pistols onto commercial flights in their carry-on luggage? No, we don’t, and to discourage this, we send people to prison for violating the law. We don’t do this out of malice — the TSA agents who busted Jones at Logan Airport were probably Patriots fans, too — but because there is no feasible alternative. The law must be enforced, and violators must be imprisoned, or else we shall descend into lawless anarchy.

Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time. Unless, of course, your name is Biden, in which case, the rules don’t apply to you.



 

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 06.21.23

Posted on | June 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.21.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Big Based Book Sale Is Live!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sunrise at Stonehenge, also, Solstice
Twitchy: House Censures Rep. Schiff – Democrats Throw Tantrum, Court Denies Motion To Dismiss Defamation Suit against Taylor Lorenz, and Trans Child From MTV Documentary Now Detransitioning
Louder With Crowder: “Yellowstone” creator reveals HBO dumped all over the show, insultingly claimed it was too “Middle America” for them
Vox Popoli: Of All the Boomers Who Ever Boomed, Oxygen > Inspiration, and Why “Posterity” Matters
Gab News: Building Virtual Nation-States

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Art of the Deal
American Greatness: Arrests and Encounters of FBI Terror Watchlist Suspects at Southern Border Hits All-Time High, also, Congress to Unseal Testimony from IRS Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Case
American Thinker: Were They Spying on Trump All Along?, also, The World Economic Forum and U.N. Agenda 2030
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuba to serve as tropical spa for 1,200 employees of Russia’s Rosneft oil company, Inflation continues to spiral out of control in Cuba, and Biden White House: No comment on Cuba hosting Red Chinese troops
Baldilocks: Freedom & Gratitude
BattleSwarm: One Rule For the Hunter Bidens Of The World, Another For You, also, Finland Elects Euroskeptic Government
Behind The Black: BepiColumbo completes third Mercury flyby, Northrop Grumman’s robotic servicing satellites gets third contract, this time from Intelsat, Rocket Lab’s payload on its first suborbital test launch of its Electron rocket, Two new European rocket startups sign deal to launch French Guiana, and Greta Thunberg: All humanity is now extinct on Earth, because we didn’t do anything about global warming
CDR Salamander: Waiting For A New Naval Strategy?
Chicago Boyz: ChatGPT Analyzes Faust
Da Tech Guy: The Big Apple, also. I’m Old Enough to Remember When Leftists Used to Quote Orwell’s 1984 as a Warning
Don Surber: The New Never Trumpers
First Street Journal: Karen wants to know if you have a gun, also, The Dummkopf from Delaware strikes again!
Gates Of Vienna: The Once and Future Murderer, Defending European Women From Predatory Culture-Enrichers, Klaboosterbach Will Save You From Heat Stroke, and Cranking up the Runabout
The Geller Report: STUPID AND DEADLY: Missing Titanic Sub CEO’s Diversity, Equity Rant – Wouldn’t Hire Experienced Submariners, ‘Old White Guys Not Inspirational’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Sonification: R Aquarii
Hollywood In Toto: Stick a Fork in the Harry & Meghan Brand?, Gate Zero – A Revolutionary Journey Through Biblical History, No Hard Feelings Squanders Its Raunchy ’90s-era Premise, and Are Actors Finally Seeing the Light on Woke Overreach?
The Lid: BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’ While Spilling Info on Asset Giant
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Air Force Cadet Claims He Was Exposed to DEI and CRT by the Academy Before He Even Arrived, Biden Misses Deadline for Declassifying Intelligence on Covid Pandemic Origins, Jewish Leaders and Moms Slam the SPLC for Calling “‘Mom’s For Liberty’ a Hate Group”, Durham Shreds Democrats at House Hearing, Especially Adam Schiff, and Pennsylvania Trucking Industry Sues After State Regulatory Agency Adopts California Emissions Standards
Nebraska Energy Observer: Dog>Homework, Wednesday’s Musings
Outkick: ESPN Drops National Morning Radio Show Featuring Keyshawn Johnson, Jay Williams, Max Kellerman, Danica Patrick Hops Into A Caution Flag Bikini To Start Her European Vacation, Riley Gaines Calls Out Chair’s Opening Statement About Transgender Youth During Senate Hearing, Gilbert Arenas Reveals Why NBA Players Date Strippers And Instagram Models, and College Bowling Coach Goes Full Kenny Powers After Being Caught Having Affair With Student-Athlete
Power Line: Six theses on Hunter Biden’s plea deal, Can John Eastman Get a Fair Trial?, and We Are In the Very Best of Hands
Shark Tank: Greg Steube Introduces Bill To Repeal PATRIOT Act
Shot In The Dark: It’s Transit Memorial Day, also, Engineering Matters
The Political Hat: Restricting Freedom For The Common Good
This Ain’t Hell: Two More Accounted For, Stolen Valor Researchers Sound Off About Proposal, Red China in talks with Cuba regarding joint military training facility, Titan rescue delayed by US paperwork, and TicToc Warrior- International Stolen Valor
Transterrestrial Musings: Medical Advice
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Reportedly Settles And Abandons Daughter, also, World Doesn’t End – Greta Thunberg Deeply Disappointed
Volokh Conspiracy: Yet Another Synthetic Moral Panic over Privacy
Watts Up With That: Today We Died
The Federalist: If Democrats Really Cared About Gun Laws, They Would Pull The Prosecutorial Trigger On Hunter, New Report Alleges Ann Arbor Violated Michigan Election Laws During 2022 Midterms, Elaine Brown Sold Out Black Americans To Planned Parenthood, Discredited Democrats Attack Durham To Deflect From Their Own Tarnished Reputations, and Justice Alito Launches Preemptive Strike On Leftist Hit Piece
Mark Steyn: Hunter and the Hunted

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As a Commentary on Our Decadent Elite, the Missing Luxury Sub Is Near Perfect

Posted on | June 21, 2023 | Comments Off on As a Commentary on Our Decadent Elite, the Missing Luxury Sub Is Near Perfect

So, you’re a billionaire looking for “peak life experiences” — exotic adventures available only to people like you, with more money than anyone could ever possibly spend in a lifetime. You discover that someone is offering a deep-sea excursion to view the wreckage of the Titanic, more than two miles deep in the North Atlantic. And you can book this trip for a paltry $250,000 which, for someone of your near-infinite wealth, is mere pocket change. This explains why two passengers aboard the deep-sea mini-submarine OceanGate Titan were “British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman, 19 . . . Mr. Dawood is a scion of one of Pakistan’s wealthiest families, with a background in textiles and fertilizer manufacturing.” Piloting the sub was its inventor, a man of impeccable pedigree:

Stockton Rush, 61, was born into two illustrious American families. On his father’s side, he is a descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independence: Dr. Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton. On his mother’s side is an industrialist and the namesake of San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall.
The Davies derived their immense wealth from Ralph K. Davies. Born in 1897, Davies was already working as an office boy at Standard Oil of California by the age of 15. He shot up the ranks, becoming the youngest person in company history to earn the rank of director. During World War II, he joined the Department of the Interior at President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s request. He served as the petroleum administrator for the war throughout the conflict.
In the postwar years, Davies returned to the private sector. He served as the chairman of American President Lines, the shipping juggernaut, and resided with his family in Woodside. His wife, Louise Davies, became a patron of the San Francisco arts scene; she would later donate $4 million for the construction of the San Francisco Symphony’s new music hall. As a gesture of thanks, her name was, and still is, emblazoned on the venue.

This is real San Francisco aristocracy we’re talking about, which explains why CNN has been leading every hour with updates on the search for the missing sub, about which there were some doubts:

The tourist submersible that went missing while exploring the Titanic wreck was previously the target of safety complaints from an employee of OceanGate, the parent company that owns the sub and runs tourist expeditions of the wreck. That employee complained specifically that the sub was not capable of descending to such extreme depths before he was fired.
That’s according to legal documents obtained by The New Republic. According to the court documents, in a 2018 case, OceanGate employee David Lochridge, a submersible pilot, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub. According to a press release, Lochridge was director of marine operations at the time, “responsible for the safety of all crew and clients.”
The concerns Lochridge voiced came to light as part of a breach of contract case related to Lochridge refusing to greenlight manned tests of the early models of the submersible over safety concerns. Lochridge was fired, and then OceanGate sued him for disclosing confidential information about the Titan submersible. In response, Lochridge filed a compulsory counterclaim where he alleged wrongful termination over being a whistleblower about the quality and safety of the submersible.
Lochridge, in his counterclaim, alleged that “rather than addressing Lochridge’s concerns, OceanGate instead summarily terminated Lochridge’s employment in efforts to silence Lochridge and to avoid addressing the safety and quality control issues.”

Worse still, they went woke:

Since the Titan Five went missing, a two-year-old Zoom interview with Stockton Rush has gone viral, in which he indicates he prioritized diversity and youth over experience when hiring people.
“When I started the business, one of the things you’ll find, there are other sub operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys,” Rush told Teledyne Marine in the interview. “I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational, and I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology. But, a 25-year-old, you know, who’s a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational. ”
Rush continued, “So we really tried to get very intelligent, motivated younger individuals involved, cuz we’re doing things that are completely new. We’re taking approaches that are used largely in the aerospace industry, as related to safety and some of the preponderance of checklists of things we do for risk assessments and things like that, that are more aviation-related than ocean-related, and we can train people to do that. We can train someone to pilot the sub; we use a game controller, so anybody can drive the sub.”

We’re now in Day Three of the search for the missing sub, and chances of finding them alive are . . . not good. One ought not to gloat about such deadly matters, but as a metaphor for the failures of our decadent elite, this story is almost perfect. Alas, in his quest for “inspirational” diversity, Stockton Rush was apparently unable to recruit a transgender Thai or a Latina lesbian to pilot the sub, so it’s not completely perfect.



 

 

Category: Progressivism

In The Mailbox: 06.20.23

Posted on | June 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.20.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“In case of danger- burn”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woke Censoring Of Classic Movies Has Begun
EBL: Cormac McCarthy, RIP, Titanic Submarine, and Hunter Biden Sweetheart Plea Deal
Twitchy: Occupy Democrats Get Dragged For Ghoulish Attempt To Tie Elon Musk To Missing Sub, Greta Thunberg Painfully Reminded Of Climate Doomsday Deadline On 5th Anniversary Of Tweet, and Pentagon’s Accounting Error Finds Extra $6.2 Billion For Ukraine
Louder With Crowder: “Just shut up”: SNL alumni torches Garth Brooks for involving himself in the Bud Light fiasco, also, Joe Biden needs to be led like a child after saying he’ll solve the existential crisis of our time… by 2020
Vox Popoli: Reddit vs Reddit Moderators, The Course of Future History, Biden as Valens, Phonics are the Only Way, and You Really Didn’t, Donald

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Murder in Nottingham
American Greatness: Biden Administration Gave $2M to University’s ‘Microaggression Monitoring’ Efforts, also, Delaware U.S. Attorney Reaches Sweetheart Plea Deal With Hunter Biden Over Tax and Gun Violations
American Thinker: The GOP is Losing the Vote Fraud War, Wanna Be a Good Samaritan? Fuhgeddaboudit, and The Swamp Strikes Back
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Prosperity News
Babalu Blog: Pope Francis receives Cuba’s sock puppet president at the Vatican, Reports from Cuba: With an exchange rate of 200 CUP per dollar, peso reaches new all-time low, and China into Cuba, US army into woke
BattleSwarm: Abbott Carries Through With Threat, Vetoes Slew Of Bills, How A 120mm Tank Round Works, and The Mine-Laying Lawnmower of Death
Behind The Black: Looking down a canyon on Mars, Red China launches classified experimental satellite, and Fake pushback: Texas passes law banning DEI at the state universities
Cafe Hayek: A Confused Review of Sam Gregg’s ‘Next American Economy’, also, Votes FOR and Votes AGAINST
CDR Salamander: How Weak is The Strongest Nation In Continental Europe?
Chicago Boyz: Seth Barrett Tillman: “A Dialogue on Migration”, also, “Body language”
Da Tech Guy: Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson makes $10 million “growing pains” error with e-signature blunder, Five Quick Thoughts Under the Fedora, and July 4th Adoration for the Nation
Dana Loesch: News You May Have Missed, also, Hunter Biden Accepts Plea Deal
Don Surber: SJWs Are On The Run
First Street Journal: The problem with journolism in one coffee mug, What hath progressives wrought?, and Karma! The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend
Gates Of Vienna: Azerbaijan = Corrupt + Terrorist + Evil, What’s a Little Passport Forgery Between Friends?, The Signal Returns, Helping the Kiwi Police With Their Enquiries, and I Can’t Wait For That Yummy Soylent Green
The Geller Report: Protest Against JCRC to End CUNY Jew Hatred, “DO YOUR JOB!”, also, At Last 4 Dead, Several Wounded in Islamic Terrorist Attack in Samaria, Muslims Celebrate, Hand Out Sweets
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Too Bright for JWST, and Something Failed To Proceed As I Foresaw
Hollywood In Toto: Airport Franchise Deserved Leslie Nielsen’s Epic Takedown, RFK Jr.: Big Tech Censorship Threatens Comedian Theo Von, Summer Lovin’…Hollywood Style, and John Cusack: Strip Fox News of Its Broadcast License
The Lid: Unequal Justice: Hunter Gets Exactly The Slap On The Wrist Republicans Predicted
Legal Insurrection: Trump Denies Having Or Showing Iran Attack Plans, Contrary to Indictment, “This Hunter Biden deal is to put to rest a major problem for the Biden family”, Mayo Clinic Suspends Medicine Prof Who Said ‘Testosterone Improves Athletic Performance’, Senate Democrats Want to Change Rules Because Sen. Tuberville Put on Hold Biden’s Military Promotions, and Desperate Search Mission Launched to Rescue Tourist Submersible Heading to Titanic Wreck
Nebraska Energy Observer: To insure that
Outkick: MLB Players Vote On Favorite Expansion City, With Nashville The Clear Winner, Twitter Suspends Moriah Mills After She Threatens To Release Zion Williamson Sex Tape, College World Series: Advantage Tennessee Vs. LSU Because Of Much Deeper Pitching, USC’s No. 1 Freshman WR Zachariah Branch Comes Close To Usain Bolt’s Top Speed, and LSU Gymast Olivia Dunne Pops Up At College World Series, Draws Crowds Of Fans
Power Line: Six theses on the Trump indictment, part 5, Feel Good Headline of the Day, and It’s Just Like Slavery
Shark Tank: Florida Pols Sound Alarm Over Red Chinese Base In Cuba
Shot In The Dark: Fake News?, Dreamworld, They Know What Matters, and I’m Old Enough To Remember
The Political Hat: Federal Judge: Actually There IS A Hate Speech Exception To The 1st Amendment
This Ain’t Hell: House GOP proposal would require veteran’s consent before granting FOIA request, also, Hunter Biden plea deal on tax and gun charges; likely to avoid jail
Transterrestrial Musings: The Titanic Submersible, also, It’s Good To Be A Biden
Victory Girls: Clown Prince Hunter Makes a Deal
Volokh Conspiracy: An Orthodox Rabbi Makes the Case for Legalizing Organ Markets, also, Justice Alito Preempts ProPublica “Investigative Journalism”
Watts Up With That: China is Throwing Away Fields of Electric Cars – Letting them Rot!, also, New evidence that polar bears survived 1,600 years of ice-free summers in the early Holocene
The Federalist: Here’s How We Know The Flunking Education Establishment Is Scared, Joe Biden Once Recommended More Prosecutions For Those Who Lie On Background Checks. Has He Changed His Mind?, The Truth About Ukraine’s Failing Counteroffensive And The Peace That Could Have Been, Gov. Abbott Signs Bill Allowing Texas To Withdraw From Leftist-Controlled Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Group ERIC, and No, ‘Book Bans’ Are Not ‘Castrating’ Kids
Mark Steyn: Edelweiss

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Slap on the Wrist for Hunter Biden

Posted on | June 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Slap on the Wrist for Hunter Biden

Because it’s different when Democrats do it:

The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe details of the agreement that are not yet public. . . .Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation for those counts, these people said. Biden’s representatives have said he previously paid back the IRS what he owed. Additionally, Biden plans to admit to illegally possessing a weapon following his 2018 purchase of a handgun. As part of that admission, he expects to be entered in a diversion program, a less punitive form of sentence typically applied to people with substance abuse problems. In all, prosecutors would recommend two years of probation and diversion conditions. If Biden successfully meets the conditions of the diversion program, the gun charge would be removed from his record at the end of that period, the people said.

(Hat-tips: Stephen Green at Instapundit; Matt Margolis at PJMedia.)



 

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats

Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

Posted on | June 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

During Pride Month!

An investigation is underway after the body of a transgender woman was found at a hotel [June 1], near Woodward and Six Mile in Highland Park.
The mother of Asia Davis is devastated — asking why and how something like this could happen.
“She’s my only child,” said Davis’ mother. “She was just getting a job, and went to school. I just don’t understand why this happened.”
The victim’s friend Allona Anderson, was outside the hotel where Asia’s body was found. It’s a hotel where many in the transgender community sometimes stay.
“We’ve (known) each other since we were (children), since we were younger,” said Anderson who is also transgender. “And we loved each other that was a good friend of mine.”
Michigan State Police is leading the investigation after receiving a call from the Highland Park Police Department about a deceased 34-year-old woman.

Police have released a surveillance video that shows a male suspect leaving the hotel on foot about 11 p.m. on the night in question, and we can only speculate why he was visiting “a hotel where many in the transgender community sometimes stay.” Meanwhile, in Milwaukee:

Cordell Howze (left); Cashay Henderson (right)

The 33-year-old Milwaukee man charged in connection to the murder of Cashay Henderson, a Black trans woman, has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The new plea came down Thursday [June 15], just one day after Henderson’s sister spoke out about her sister, saying, “My family and I just want justice for what happened to her.”
Cordell M. Howze was charged back in March with one count of first-degree reckless homicide in Henderson’s death.
The charge came after the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a home near 29th and Villard on Feb. 26 for a fire. After discovering Henderson with a gunshot wound, Milwaukee police were notified. According to a criminal complaint, during a search of the home, a detective recovered a gasoline can, a gas can nozzle, and the key fob for a Toyota. An unfired 9mm cartridge was also recovered. Henderson’s Toyota was found parked in the parking lot.
Police identified Howze in security footage taken near Henderson’s apartment.

Among the charges against Howze is “possession of a firearm by a felon (habitual criminality repeater).” Meanwhile, in Maryland:

Darryl Carlton Parks Jr. (left); ‘Tasiyah’ Woodland (right)

A Washington, D.C., man has been arrested in the death of 18-year-old Black transgender woman Tasiyah “Siyah” Woodland of Maryland.
St. Mary’s County, Md., sheriff’s deputies and District of Columbia detectives arrested Darryl Carlton Parks Jr., 29, in D.C. March 28, the Washington Blade reports. He faces charges including first-degree murder and second-degree murder.
Woodland was shot to death March 24 near a bar in Mechanicsville, Md. St. Mary’s County authorities said there was “some type of confrontation” before she was killed, but they don’t believe her gender identity was a factor in the crime. Her family contends, however, that she was the victim of a hate crime, the Blade reports.
Woodland, who lived in Lexington Park, Md., had attended Great Mills High School and was studying at the College of Southern Maryland. She worked at a Hollister clothing store. On a GoFundMe page, family members described her as “high spirited and protective of those she loved.” After her mother’s death, Woodland “got the courage to start living in her truth and started her transition, which her family accepted with open arms,” the page notes.
Parks had been arrested in February 2021 in D.C. on charges of aggravated reckless driving and attempted second-degree child cruelty, the Blade reports. Charging documents said he had intentionally struck another vehicle with his pickup truck and that he had a 3-year-old child with him in the truck. The child was not in a safety seat or belted in. However, the charges were dismissed last September at prosecutors’ request.

As for Woodland “living her truth,” there’s this report:

A Lexington Park resident was charged with felony theft and felony unlawful taking of a vehicle along with several misdemeanors, including extortion/slander, rogue and vagabond and possession of more than 10 grams of marijuana.
Isiaih Alexander Woodland, 18, was arrested on Nov. 12 after police responded to an Extended Stay America in the 46500 block of Expedition Lane in Lexington Park.
A man said he met Woodland in a hotel room for mutual sex acts, according to a charging document, which used female pronouns for Woodland but identified Woodland’s sex as male.
The accuser, who had been intoxicated, woke up at 6:45 a.m. on Nov. 12 and discovered that his car keys and silver 2020 Ford Fusion were missing.
The man said Woodland sent him a text accusing him of trying to rape Woodland. The text also said Woodland would bring the car back, “but if you get the cops involved it’ll only make things worse for you,” the document states.
The charging document said the car was recovered at a Sheetz gas station at 10:07 a.m. on Nov. 12. Police allegedly found 27 grams of marijuana in the vehicle that Woodland said belonged to her.

Just another victim of transphobia, “living her truth.”



 

 

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