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Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Hunter Biden pled not guilty on Wednesday to gun and tax charges, refusing to accept a new plea deal laid out by prosecutors.
The original plea deal fell apart after the judge questioned if it covered future potential charges of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation. The prosecution reportedly said the deal did not include any alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations.
MSNBC reported the court took a ten-minute recess to determine if the two parties could quickly come to an agreement. When the deal got back on track, reports indicated it would “be more limited in scope,” only including specific charges related to tax and gun wronging. “The two sides have agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges,” CNN reported.
But the judge said she was not ready to accept the plea deal and asked both the prosecutor and Hunter Biden to submit additional briefs, according to reporters inside the courthouse. The parties will have to return to court in the future.
The hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty.
Sen. Josh Hawley told CNN the high court drama shows the plea “sweetheart” deal was flawed, and additional charges could be brought:

It’s very telling that the judge intervened here and said basically, ‘No, I’m not going to approve some sweeping blanket deal.’ … I mean, that tells you the court has serious concerns about other potential charges here, and also the scope of the deal, which has seemed outrageous from the beginning.

“This, I think, signals that they’re [sic] still very much potential for prosecution forward,” he added.
U.S. prosecutor David Weiss admitted in July that the FBI informant form alleging the Biden family bribes is part of an ongoing investigation.

Will Scharf at The Federalist has more:

Hunter Biden arrived in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday morning expecting that, in a few short hours, he would walk out a free man with full immunity from prosecution for an exceedingly wide range of alleged criminal conduct, ranging from gun and drug charges to foreign influence peddling. His expectation was that his deal would be insulated from challenges from the presiding judge, or from a prosecutorial change of heart under a future administration. His expectation was that his legal ordeals were coming to a close.
Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika picked apart his plea deal with surgical precision, exposing its legal contradictions, and upbraiding both defense counsel and the Department of Justice for structuring an unprecedented deal that in her view — and mine — was illegal and unconstitutional. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Need a bonus? Guess who appointed the judge?

After all these years, still #winning!



 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sinéad O’Connor RIP, Critical Drinker – Oppenheimer, and Why the Ukraine-Russia War probably should not go on indefinitely
Twitchy: Eric Holder’s Anti-Racist Advice To Starbucks Got Them Sued, Anheuser-Busch Laying Off 350 Employees, and Man Who Didn’t Get Sweetheart Plea Deal Examines The Two Tiers Of Justice
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC lady swears Joe Biden did nothing wrong but love Hunter Biden…to Biden’s former spokeswoman, Ice Cube uncensored with Tucker Carlson: Says he’s banned from ‘The View,’ compares trans people to pigeons, and David Hogg sticks his head out for a Mitch McConnell tweet, gets run over by Roseanne Barr
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Can Only Mock, The Capital That Was Lost, Babymetal is Back, It’s Just Greed, Right?, and SSH with Stew Peters
Stoic Observations: Broken
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – The Hunter Biden Plea Deal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Myth of the ‘Underfunded School’
American Greatness: Watchdog Group Claims China is Funding Indoctrination Efforts in American Schools
American Thinker: Our Government Has Been Covering Up Its Crimes For A Very Long Time, Biden: Hiding in Plain Sight, and Bidenomics: Controlling Inflation by Making Us Poorer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Free Market News
Babalu Blog: Belarusian Dictator Lukashenko wishes Cuba’s fake president good health and inexhaustible strength, Surprise! Cuban peso continues to lose value in exchange rate versus dollar and euro, and Cuban mother of severely ill girl begs for help from diaspora exiles
Baldilocks: Lucking Out
BattleSwarm: Mark Zuckerberg Has Been A Very Bad Robot Boy
Behind The Black: FAA: No Starship/Superheavy launch until we say so!, Boeing’s total losses due to Starliner now equal $1.5 billion, FTC will not block the purchase of Aerojet Rocketdyne by L3Harris, Scientists think they have finally discovered what makes the Sun’s corona so hot, Juno’s next fly-by of Io coming on July 30, and Pushback: City in Georgia forced to rescind a law that required permits for any protest
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
CDR Salamander: A Good Game Of Catchup In The SW Pacific
Chicago Boyz: What Happened in 2012?, also, Will There Ever Be an Apology for Covid Overreaction?
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime’s ban on portable gas generators is going to have a very negative impact on emergency communications
Dana Loesch: Byron Donalds & Kamala Harris Finally Agree On Something 
Don Surber: Someone Finally Told Hunter No
First Street Journal: Editorial cartoonists gobsmacked by reality, also, Killadelphia: How many extra have died?
Gates Of Vienna: Verdicts in the Trial of the Brussels Ten, Albatross Generation, The Truth About Climate Change, and Moloch Must Be Appeased
The Geller Report: DOJ Drops Campaign Finance Charge Against DEMOCRAT MEGA DONOR Sam Bankman-Fried, also, Biden Regime Being Sued For Concealing FBI Background Investigation Into Mayorkas
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Hunter Draws A Card, Imagine, If You Will, and Juno Flies Past Io and Jupiter
Hollywood In Toto: Journalists Torch ‘Anti-Vax’ Ice Cube, also, Is Depp v. Heard the Next Tiger King?
The Lid: Dropping The Atomic Bombs Remains The Right Call
Legal Insurrection: Conditions of Release: Hunter Biden Must Look for a Job, Not Use Controlled Substances, and Consume No Alcohol, Feds File Superseding Indictment Adding Charges Against Trump And Additional Defendant in Florida Case, RFK Jr. Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt On Antisemitism Accusations, Hot Mic Catches Sen. Feinstein Confused Over Roll Call Voting During Committee Hearing, Political Scientist Suggests Higher Ed Can Win Back Public Trust by Dismantling DEI Policies, and Newsweek Tries Riding to Joe Biden’s Rescue After Strange ‘Cancer Cure’ Claim
Nebraska Energy Observer: Organization is everything
Outkick: Colorado Officially Announces Intentions For Big 12 Move, ESPN To Test All-Female ‘SportsCenter’ To Spotlight Women’s Sports Instead Of The NFL, Gardner Minshew Is Very Frugal, Slept On A Mattress He Found In The Garbage, Ohio State Player Says He Wants To Be Paid In Tractors, and Buffs Called The Pac-12’s Bluff: Report
Power Line: America’s decline follows a familiar arc: ‘gradually, then suddenly’, The Facebook Files: More Censorship Revealed, and Judge Noreika to Hunter Biden: Get a Job, Stay Sober
Shark Tank: Rubio & Scot Leverage Congressional Power To Block Biden EV Rule
Shot In The Dark: One Day In The Theme Park, 
The Political Hat: The Monomania Of The Woke Worldview
This Ain’t Hell: Bidens, Bidens, we got Bidens, even Bitin’ Bidens, Biden’s Dog, Commander, Terrorizing the Secret Service, Navy Centenarian Flys Again, Nigerian Soldiers Stage Coup, Need Account For Trapped Funds, and Charles Adams, hard time getting out of bed, easy time doing exertion exercises
Victory Girls: Long Knives Out For Joe and DOCTOR Jill Biden?
Volokh Conspiracy: UK Banks Commit to “the Principle of Non-Discrimination Based on Lawful Freedom of Expression” as to Clients
Watts Up With That: Climate Shock: An anti ULEZ Candidate Just Won a London Election, Intrusive ‘smart meters’ threaten to turn UK homes into Net Zero Panopticon, Polar bear habitat around Svalbard Norway above average despite high temps in N. Atlantic, and Aussie Green Hydrogen Project Scrapped, “Not Viable”
The Federalist: New York Is Waging Radical Pro-Abortion Lawfare On Peaceful Pro-Lifers, Entire Democrat Party Pretends Biden’s 4-Year-Old Grandchild Does Not Exist, The ‘Laptop Class’ Fetish For Manual Labor Is An Attempt To Justify Privilege, It’s Time For Americans To Stop Tolerating Mentally Deficient Politicians, and For The Pentagon, Subsidizing Abortions Takes Priority Over Transporting Service Members To Their Final Resting Place
Mark Steyn: No Harm, also, Dread and Danger

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The Science Is Settled!

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The Science Is Settled!

Liberalism is the disease, craziness is just a symptom:

In 2021, Scott McGreal, writing in Psychology Today, reported that an American study demonstrated  a link between high levels of neuroticism and liberal politics. Additional findings from a British study later that same year indicated a similar link between left-wing political views on economics and the environment (among other issues) and the occurrence of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias. One interesting aspect of these findings is that they run counter to the hypothesis that persons expressing generally conservative political views hold their views due to “increased threat sensitivity.” Another is that the researchers presenting these findings had no axe to grind against political liberals or leftists. Quite the reverse, in fact, and they were startled by their own findings.
These findings are of a piece with those of a much larger longitudinal study of the mental health of American adolescents over the years 2005 to 2018. That study showed both a marked increase of “internalized symptoms” of poor mental health and a consistent disparity between the mental health of self-reported teenage “liberals,” who consistently evinced greater levels of these internalized symptoms, and “conservatives,” who consistently evinced lower levels, even as mental health deteriorated for the entire age cohort as an aggregate. The study broke the subjects down by socioeconomic group, sex, race, and their parents’ educational level. The findings generally indicated that these social factors, along with parental ideology, had significant though differing influences driving the increase in anxiety, depression, and loneliness among those with “internalized symptoms.” The results showed white, liberal adolescent girls faring the worst in mental health. The findings of that study were buttressed by a 2020 Pew Research Center study that demonstrated, yet again, a correlation between liberal politics and mental health problems, prompting headlines to the effect of “white liberal girls in mental health crisis.” . . .

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Also see, “Progressivism Is Aggravating America’s Mental Health Crisis” in The American Spectator. We didn’t actually need any scientific studies to prove liberals are crazy. I mean, almost 43% of voters approve of the job that Joe Biden’s doing as president — clearly, these people have lost touch with reality. Quod erat demonstrandum.

People who elect Democrats are self-evidently daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off their rockers, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

And like I say, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Liberals

In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Meanwhile at Clyde’s…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hunter Biden Plea In Jeopardy
Twitchy: Rep. Burchette (R-TN) Not Buying CNN Anchor’s Claim That She Doesn’t Have A Political Base, also, Ted Lieu’s Chart In Border Hearing Doesn’t Make The Point He Thinks 
Louder With Crowder: Here we go: BLM footage gets edited out of Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” video on YouTube, also, Ice Cube blasts Democrats failing Black America as he cruises South Central with Tucker Carlson
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Borrowed Time, also, This is Why They Take the Ticket
Gab News: The Truth About Drinking Raw Milk

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Define the Mission, Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie, and Oppenheimer and the Roots of Tragedy
American Greatness: FBI Hands Over Documents Relating to Targeting of Catholics, also, The Educational Establishment’s Radical New Ploys
American Thinker: ‘Shut Up or Else!’ The True Link between Islam and the Left, How Investigative Journalists Have Become Cover-Up Promoters, and Welcome to the Persecution, RFK Jr.
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: 70 years ago today, Cuba’s endless nightmare began, Exiled Cuban journalist threatened by Cuban dictatorship’s agents in Spain, and Barbie’s boyfriend Ken does Cuba, historical style
Baldilocks: California Reaping
BattleSwarm: Bill Maher Interviews Jordan Peterson
Behind The Black: House rejects FCC bill because the bill approved FCC’s recent power grab, Varda blocked from bringing its capsule back to Earth by FAA, Houston mission control loses contact with ISS for about 90 minutes, Optical image of accretion disk around baby star, taken by ground-based VLT, New Space Force language would give it the power to take over all commercial space assets, and Democrats now favor oppression and censorship by almost 3 to 1
Cafe Hayek: The Statrix
CDR Salamander: Another Layer To The Nation’s Humiliation At Kabul
Da Tech Guy: The Worst Possible Case For The King (and the Fauci Flock)
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Rejects Plea Deal After Judge Denies Immunity,
Don Surber: Try That In National Review
First Street Journal: Life is cheap in Lexington!
Gates Of Vienna: The Demonic Convergence of Communism and Islam
The Geller Report: TRUMP’S LEAD IS UNSHAKABLE AS GOP DEBATES APPROACH, Hunter Biden’s Art Patron Visited White House Over a Dozen Times, Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal CANCELLED, Sweetheart Deal OFF, and Nobel Prize Winner Canceled By IMF After Announcing There Is No Climate Crisis
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Zooming in on V960 Mon, and Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Falls Through
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s the Only Reason to See Haunted Mansion 2.0, also, Is Ordinary Angels the Next Faith-Based Smash?
The Lid: Biden: My Administration “Ended Cancer As We Know It.”
Legal Insurrection: Vanderbilt Spending $17 Million on a Faculty DEI Initiative Aimed at the Biomedical Research Community, McConnell Claims He’s ‘Fine’ After Freezing and Appearing Unwell at Press Conference, Hunter Biden Pleads NOT GUILTY Due to Stripping of Protection From Future Prosecution, Rep. Cammack Exposes Harsh Reality of Border Crisis to Sec. Becerra, and Less Than a Quarter of College Students View Capitalism Favorably, According to Survey
Nebraska Energy Observer: Relationships and History
Outkick: 320-Pound Iowa Offensive Lineman Sets New Record With Massive Hay Bale Toss En Route To Dynasty Status, Bradley Cooper Reportedly Not Pumped About Ex Irina Shayk Dating Tom Brady, Enes Kanter Freedom Eyes Potential Congressional Run, Reveals Main Issue, Travis Kelce Describes Failed Scheme To Give Taylor Swift His Phone Number Via Friendship Bracelet, Travis Kelce Describes Failed Scheme To Give Taylor Swift His Phone Number Via Friendship Bracelet, and Donald Cerrone Claims He Would Destroy Andrew Tate In A Fight: ‘Shut The F*ck Up’
Power Line: Misunderstood in Wilmington, Speaking of phony baloney, and Podcast: Special Edition with William B. Allen on Harris’s Demagoguery
Shark Tank: DeSantis Touts Florida’s “Back To School Sales Tax Holiday”
Shot In The Dark: Try That In A Place That Hasn’t Opioided Or Woked Itself Into A Living H.L. Mencken Essay, also, Complete Control
This Ain’t Hell: Bergdahl conviction overturned, Four More Accounted For, Dear Jonn, and Jonn Lilyea, five years since he left us
Transterrestrial Musings: Starliner, also, An Evergreen Headline
Victory Girls: Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum is Annoying Our Betters
Volokh Conspiracy: Lawsuit Over Firing of Sports Show Host for Tweeting “ALL LIVES MATTER…EVERY SINGLE ONE” Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: We Stopped Just Stop Oil, Biden Violates Inflation Reduction Act Less Than One Year After Signing It Because, and ‘When will politicians listen?’: Another green energy project ‘bites the dust’
The Federalist: Biden Family Scandals Are So Much Bigger Than Hunter’s Hookers And Burisma Bribery, If Republicans Want To Keep Their House Majority, They Must Impeach Joe Biden, Oppenheimer Explores The Heroic And Horrific Power Of Man’s Inventions, Hunter Biden Plea Deal Derailed By Federal Judge, Defense Department Is Boxing Parents Out Of Their Children’s Medical Care And Records , and Republicans Must Stand Strong On The NDAA Amid Biden’s Woke War On The Military

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In The Mailbox: 07.26.23

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.26.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Not this “climate change” bullshit again.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tom Brady Bounces Back With Irina Shayk, also, Where in the world is Fu Xiaotian?
Twitchy: Politico Explains That Kamala Is A Better VP Than You Think, also, So-Called Conservative Alyssa Farah Goodwin Suddenly Very Worried About Consequences Of “Lowering The Bar To Impeachment”
Louder With Crowder: Jason Aldean makes progressives regret trying that in a small town, sees massive 999% increase in plays, As Bud Light continues to crumble, America’s beer makes a play for the top spot, and ‘Just Stop Oil’ slacktivists finally get taste of their own medicine
Vox Popoli: The Etymology of “Yahweh”, Obvious Manufacture is Obvious, Promises, Promises, and Whatever Could it Be?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Rubio’s Reveille
American Greatness: Trump Holds 27-Point Lead Over DeSantis in Iowa Poll, also, DOJ Will Allow Delaware U.S. Attorney to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee, Balks on Ten Other DOJ Employees
American Power: The Democratic Party Hates America
American Thinker: The GOP Death Wish, also, The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Doom Pixie News
Babalu Blog: Spain and the inconclusive election, Cuban priest denounces harassment and intimidation of clergy who dare to criticize dictatorship, and Being Cuban does not make us ‘Latin’
BattleSwarm: Mapping Austin’s Homeless Problem, also, Incompetent Uvalde Gun Lawsuit Draws Fines
Behind The Black: Swirling layers in the basement of Mars, NASA awards 11 small development contracts to a variety of companies, Rocket Lab delays its private mission to Venus two years to ’25, ESA: Ariane-6’s launch systems tests “progressing well”, and The grassroots revolt led by mothers
CDR Salamander: Berger Goes Salamander
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech: Making a Tunic, 1700 Years Ago
Da Tech Guy: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, also, Serious Irony Alert Rapture and Bronny
Dana Loesch: Special K Says Hunter Biden Is A Private Citizen So Stop Asking Questions About Him, also, Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Caught Lying To The Court One Day before Expected Guilty Plea
Don Surber: They’re Rubbing Our Noses In Their Filth
First Street Journal: I point at the moon; they stare at my finger, also, Killadelphia: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Gates Of Vienna: Taharrush on the Milan Metro, Giorgia Meloni on the EU’s Deal With Tunisia, and Groped on the Beach? There’s an App For That!
The Geller Report: Barack and Michelle Obama’s Personal Chef Drowns Near Couple’s Estate in Martha’s Vineyard, also, Belief in God Reaches All-Time Low Among Americans
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, An Irregular Dwarf, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Sympathy for the Devil Lets Cage Off His Leash, Tulsi Gabbard Has Jason Aldean’s Back, and Ice Cube on Refusing COVID Jab: ‘It Wasn’t Ready’
The Lid: Tisha B’Av: The Day God Cursed, The Day Jews Cry
Legal Insurrection: President of Thomas Jefferson U. Resigns After Controversy of Liking Tweets, Biden Overrides SecDef Recommendation for Navy’s CNO, Appoints Woman To Achieve “A First”, Soros-Backed Group Receiving Millions From Biden Admin to Teach Puerto Rican Men About ‘Toxic Masculinities’, Federal Judge Blocks Biden’s Asylum Rule Put in Place After Lifting Title 42, and What Happens When Democrats Start Ignoring U.S. Supreme Court Rulings They Don’t Like?
Nebraska Energy Observer: How to help
Outkick: Olivia Dunne Can’t Attend Classes At LSU For Safety Reasons, Dan Le Batard Co-Host, ‘Stugotz,’ Says Le Batard ‘Sold Out,’ Goes On Extremely On-Point Rant About State Of ESPN, Sports Journalism, Bronny James Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Workout At USC, In Stable Condition After Stint In ICU, Olivia Dunne Beats The Heat With A Bikini And Lots Of Water, LeBron James Ready To Go Play In Saudi Arabia After Seeing $776 Million Kylian Mbappe Offer, and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh Working With NCAA On Four-Game Suspension Relating To Recruiting Violations, Dishonesty
Power Line: “This elaborate censorship conspiracy”, Joe Biden vs. the Microphone—Again, and Toward a More Democratic Israel
Shark Tank: Gaetz Introduces Bill To End Birthright Citizenship
Shot In The Dark: Voting Via Feet, also, Further Evidence
STUMP: Sunday Sundries: Sumo, Saints, and SHARKS!
The Political Hat: The Commodification Of Human Life
This Ain’t Hell: Unsat follow-ups, America’s Navy and Marines to conduct an exercise spanning 22 time zones, and Scientists Speak on DOD’s “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,”
Transterrestrial Musings: Overstepping Its Authority, The Incompetocracy, and If You Start To Go To The South Pole
Victory Girls: Special Persecutor Jack Smith Goes After Trump On Election Integrity, also, Florida Black History Curriculum Truths
Volokh Conspiracy: Second Amendment Roundup: Upholding Oregon’s Magazine Ban, “Texas A&M Suspended Professor Accused of Criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in Lecture”, and Federal Court Rules Against Biden Policy Severely Restricting Asylum
Watts Up With That: Biden Admin Targets Water Heaters With New Rule Proposal, LA Times says quiet part out loud: ‘Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?’, ITER Fusion Energy Project: ‘Record-setting Disaster’, and Agri-Absurdity: The High Cost of ‘Saving’ The Planet
The Federalist: How Promising NATO Membership To Ukraine Could Lead To World War III, Disney’s Upcoming Live-Action ‘Snow White’ Is Another Marxist Attack On Western Civilization, Most Of The $190 Billion In Covid ‘Aid’ To Schools Was Wasted At Kids’ Expense, Mounting Evidence Doesn’t Matter, Corporate Media Will Never Cover The Biden Corruption Scandal, DOJ Prepares To Throw David Weiss Under The Bus, and After Running Trump Impeachment Info Op, Media Rush To Bury Evidence Of Biden Bribery Business
Mark Steyn: Alone Again, Naturally

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Feds Are Mystified Why Syrian Named Mohamad Planned Terrorist Attack

Posted on | July 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

Almost as soon as the July 14 shooting happened in Fargo, North Dakota, the media rushed to emphasize that nothing was known about the gunman’s motive. On a Friday afternoon, on a busy street just blocks away from the city’s Downtown Street Fair, there was a traffic accident. When police responded to the accident, they were targeted by gunfire that killed one officer and wounded two others. A civilian was also struck by gunfire during the shootout, in which the suspect was killed.

It was not until 24 hours later that we learned that the suspect was named Mohamad Barakat, but in the June 15 press conference announcing this information, Fargo’s police chief made it a point to declare the shooting happened “for no known reason at all.”

It is a profound mystery, you see, why a guy named Mohamad would want to kill policemen in Fargo, North Dakota. But how did Mohamad get to Fargo? We now know how that part happened:

Barakat arrived in the U.S. from Syria in 2012 as part of former President Barack Obama’s massive wave of Syrian refugees, where nearly 20,000 were admitted from October 2011 to December 2016. Eventually, Barakat gained a green card, allowing him to permanently reside in the country. In 2019, Barakat was allowed to become a naturalized American citizen.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama! I’m sure the family of the dead cop is grateful that you brought their son’s killer to America. Daniel Greenfield highlights the continuing “mystery motive” theme:

Authorities said they don’t know why Barakat was planning the attack downtown or why he stopped to shoot officers Friday afternoon.
“In regards to motive, if we had clear evidence of that, we would share it,” North Dakota U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider said.

I’m sure he would. Mac Schneider was a [Democrat] politician who lost a congressional race and got nominated as U.S. Attorney by Joe Biden.

Schneider declined to say if Barakat was on the FBI’s radar.

The FBI’s too busy rounding up Trump supporters to bother investigating guys from Syria named Mohamad. Finally this week, we were informed that the Syrian named Mohamad had a vast arsenal of weapons:

The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, authorities said Friday.
Mohamad Barakat killed one officer and wounded two others and a bystander before a fourth officer shot and killed him, ending the July 14 attack.
Over the past five years, Barakat, 37, searched the internet for terms including “kill fast,” “explosive ammo,” “incendiary rounds,” and “mass shooting events,” state Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Friday during a news conference in Fargo, a city of about 125,000 people. But perhaps the most chilling search was for “area events where there are crowds,” which on July 13 brought up a news article with the headline, “Thousands enjoy first day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair.”
Had Officer Zach Robinson not killed Barakat, authorities said they shudder to think how much worse the attack might have been. All evidence suggests that Barakat came upon the traffic crash by “happenstance” and that his ensuing ambush was a diversion from his much bigger intended target, Wrigley said. . . .
On the day of the attack, the downtown fair was in its second day and was less than 3 miles from the crash scene. It’s unclear if it was the intended target, though, as Barakat also searched for information on the Red River Valley Fair, which was just a 6-mile drive from the scene, the attorney general said.
After driving by the fender bender, Barakat pulled into an adjacent parking lot to watch from his parked car, Wrigley said. He said Barakat’s car was loaded with guns, a homemade grenade, more than 1,800 rounds of ammunition, three “largish” containers full of gasoline, plus two propane tanks, one completely filled and the other half-filled not with propane, but with “explosive materials concocted at home, purchased lawfully.”
With police and firefighters busy helping, Barakat watched for several minutes until the officers walked by him, when he lifted a .223-caliber rifle out of his car window and began firing, Wrigley said.
The rifle had a binary trigger that allowed it to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon, he said. A binary trigger is a modification that allows a weapon to fire one round when the trigger is pulled and another when it is released — in essence doubling a gun’s firing capacity. The three officers who were shot had no time to react and fell in rapid succession. He also shot and wounded a fleeing woman, Karlee Koswick, who had been involved in the fender bender, he said.
Robinson, who was badly outgunned but was the only officer at the scene who hadn’t been shot, engaged Barakat in a two-minute shootout. It ended with Robinson shooting and killing Barakat as bystanders crouched nearby.
Wrigley described Robinson as “the last man standing in that blue line at that moment.”
“What he was standing between was not just the horrible events that were unfolding there, but between the horrible events that Mohamad Barakat had envisioned, planned and intended and armed himself for — beyond fully — that day,” he said.
Barakat killed Officer Jake Wallin, 23, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and wounded Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes. Wallin and Hawes were so new that they were still undergoing field training.
Barakat was a Syrian national who came to the U.S. on an asylum request in 2012 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019, Wrigley said, adding that he didn’t appear to have any ties to the Muslim community in Fargo. He said Barakat had some family in the U.S., but not in the Fargo area, and that investigators are still looking into his history before he arrived in the country.
In recent years, Barakat amassed his arsenal. And his internet searches about causing mayhem date back to 2018, with periods in which they abated before picking back up, the attorney general said. . . .
Wrigley said Barakat was wearing a vest that was “absolutely stuffed” with magazines and that he “was putting the finishing touches on his shooting skills in the last hours before this assault.”
As for the propane tanks, Wrigley said it was “quite dramatic” when the bomb squad detonated them. He suggested the tanks contained something similar to Tannerite, a commercial explosive that can be easily detonated with a shot from a high-powered rifle.
“Obvious motive to kill,” Wrigley said. “I mean, driven by hate. Driven by wanting to kill. Not particularized to some group that we can discern at this moment, not particularized to one individual that we can see.”
Barakat had worked odd jobs, and briefly trained as an emergency responder at a nearby community college. He had no criminal record or social media presence and had so little contact with other people that the only photo law enforcement could provide was a blurry image of him lifted from a video.

Mohamad from Syria arrives here about 10 years ago, and only “worked odd jobs,” so how could he afford all this weaponry? Really, 1,800 rounds of ammunition? A gun with a modified trigger? Notice that the information about Barakat is coming from the state Attorney General, rather than from federal officials. The feds want to make this case disappear, so they can go back to their usual business of investigating Trump voters and giving sweetheart plea deals to Democrats.



 

Category: North Dakota, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 07.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The amount of ignorance and revisionist history surrounding the atomic bombing of Imperial Japan and its consequent surrender boggles the mind.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
EBL: The Covid Cover-up, Special Ops: Lioness, Everything But The Behavioral Sink , and Critical Drinker: Barbie: The Greatest Lie Ever Told
Twitchy: DeSantis Team In A Minor Car Wreck, But The Comments Are A Major Wreck, also, Bulwark BS Merchant Cathy Young Defends Her Dishonest Reporting On Charles Cooke
Louder With Crowder: CMT starts to get Bud Light’d as Nashville restaurant bans network, Defiant Jason Aldean tells haters where to stick it, praises fans who “saw through a lot of the bulls****”, Country star gives powerful defense of Jason Aldean with vulgar (and awesome) rant, and Pay attention, America: Now Biden is coming for your water heater
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The Hottest Team in Baseball

Posted on | July 24, 2023 | Comments Off on The Hottest Team in Baseball

Baltimore Orioles ace reliever Felix Bautista

The city of Baltimore has a lot to be ashamed of, including a failed school system, out-of-control crime and sending Rep. Kweisi Mfume to Congress. Despite its many woes, however, Baltimore has at least one source of municipal pride — the Orioles are the hottest team in baseball.

As I told you last week, the O’s were facing a huge test in their four-game weekend series in Tampa against the Rays, who had led the American League East division all year, until Baltimore got on a wining streak right before the All-Star break. The Orioles won three out of four games at Tampa, and now have a two-game lead in the AL East:

The Baltimore Orioles are making a very real push in the AL East.
The Orioles, fresh off the franchise’s second-ever four-game series win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, now hold a two-game lead over the Rays in the division entering the final 10 weeks of the season.
Baltimore won three of four in the series, which makes 12 wins in 15 games for a team that hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2016 and trailed the Rays in the division by 6.5 games at the start of the month. . . .
First baseman Ryan O’Hearn hit a solo home run in the sixth inning Sunday night to break a 3-3 tie and give Baltimore the lead. O’Hearn drilled the left-field foul pole with his 331-foot shot, which marked the shortest home run on the team this season and just his fourth career homer against a lefty.
Anthony Santander then hit an RBI single in the seventh inning to push Baltimore to a 5-3 lead, which it rode the rest of the way for the two-run win. . . .
Baltimore has seen the playoffs just three times in the past 26 seasons. The Orioles haven’t won the AL East since 2014, the same year they got swept by the Kansas City Royals in the ALCS.

Two words missing from that story: World Series.

Baltimore last won the series in 1983, and haven’t been back for 40 years. As all the sports writers acknowledge, the O’s were supposed to still be in “rebuilding” mode this season, and when Tampa got off to such a hot start — they won their first 13 games and on April 24, were 20-3 (.870) — the consensus seemed to be that the Orioles might be lucky to make it to the playoffs as a wild card. But the past three weeks have shattered that consensus, and pundits who’d been ignoring Baltimore are beginning to take notice. A big part of the reason the O’s are now seen as a contender is because of reliever Felix Bautista. The last time a relief pitcher won the Cy Young Award was 2003, when Eric Gagne of the Dodgers saved 55 games. Bautista has already gotten 28 saves. He’s struck out 96 batters in 49 total innings, with an 0.92 ERA.

Anyway, tonight, the Orioles begin a three-game series in Philadelphia — talk about a city with a lot to be ashamed of! — and if Baltimore can win just one of those games against the Phillies, they’ll be guaranteed to still be leading the AL East when they come back home Thursday to begin a four-game series against the New York Yankees. Let ’em beat the Yankees good and hard, and then everybody will be paying attention.



 

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