‘Get Money,” R.I.P.

Posted on | July 9, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Get Money,” R.I.P.

Timothy James Jefferson of Dallas began getting tattoos before he was old enough to drive legally, but he was not exactly a stickler for legality. Among the tattoos he got while still a minor — a ninth-grader at Oak Cliff High School — was the word “get” on one arm and the word “money” on the other: “Get money” being a life goal to which he was dedicated and, as previously mentioned, legality was not foremost among his concerns.

Jefferson’s “get money” tattoos were the subject of an appeals court case. Jefferson was charged with the armed robbery of a Foot Locker store in 2009, when he was 19, and at the subsequent trial, testified in his own defense. The prosecution asked for and received permission from the judge to ask Jefferson about his “get money” tattoos. On appeal, Jefferson claimed this was irrelevant and prejudicial, to which the Texas appeals court replied: “LOL! GFY!” (Or words to that effect.)

Jefferson made news last week when he decided to celebrate the Fourth of July by — can you guess? — committing an armed robbery:

A Dallas officer fatally shot a robbery suspect who pointed a gun at police early Thursday in east Oak Cliff, according to officials.
Officers responded about 1 a.m. to a robbery call in the 2900 block of South Lancaster Road and three suspects ran out the back of an illegal game room and jumped a fence to where “covert officers” were, police said.
One of the suspects pointed a gun at the officer, a “struggle” between the two ensued and the officer shot the suspect; according to a news release.
The person who was shot by the officer was identified by the Dallas County medical examiner’s office as 34-year-old Timothy James Jefferson.
Officers rendered first aid before he was taken to the hospital and died from his injuries.
No officers were injured, and the two other suspects who ran from the area were taken into custody.

The police body-camera video was released Monday:

An on-duty Dallas officer in plain clothes fired his handgun ”approximately” four times early Thursday morning at an armed man who allegedly was involved in a robbery of an illegal Oak Cliff game room and who reached for a gun during a struggle, police said.
A surveillance camera on a nearby business captured footage of the brief scuffle between Sr. Cpl. Ruben Martinez and 34-year-old Timothy James Jefferson, who later died from his injuries. Twenty minutes of 911 audio, body-camera footage and surveillance recording were released by police during a news conference Monday. . . .
Police received a 911 call about 1 a.m. from a person who described an ongoing robbery of an illegally operating game room in the 2900 block of South Lancaster Road. An audio recording of the call, played during the news conference, captured multiple people shouting. The caller was hushed while speaking.
“We’re being robbed,” the caller told the dispatcher, according to the recording.
The video then cuts to surveillance footage captured by a camera on a nearby business, showing people, including Jefferson, armed with what appear to be handguns while corralling others into a building. One armed man, whom police did not identify, can be seen pistol-whipping another man, the footage shows.
Responding to the robbery call, Martinez arrives in an unmarked Dodge sedan and parks near the nearby business with the surveillance cameras. Shortly after, a man identified as Jefferson is shown climbing over a fence into the business’ parking lot and sprinting around the corner and toward Martinez, the footage shows.
Jefferson appears to point his hand or raise an object — which police say was a handgun — at Martinez, who is exiting the sedan as Jefferson is running up.
Jefferson raises his arms toward the officer and drops an object, the footage shows. The two get into a brief struggle before several shots are heard and Jefferson collapses. Police say Jefferson reached out to grab the handgun, leading Martinez to shoot him.
[Police Chief Eddie] García said the encounter was so short that Martinez, who was calling on Jefferson to get on the ground, did not have time to put on a ballistic vest equipped with a body-worn camera before the shooting. . . .
Two people — 21-year-old Kyvarian Banks and 20-year-old Dominique Lee Bolin — are facing charges in connection with the alleged robbery of the game room, which García said has since been shut down.
Banks and Lee Bolin were held in Dallas County custody Monday on three counts of aggravated robbery. Banks faces two additional probation violation charges stemming from a previous aggravated robbery and evading arrest detention, records show. . . .
Police seized cash from Banks and located a bag of cash he dropped while running from officers, along with a handgun, García said. Officers found Lee Bolin in the game room parking lot before taking him into custody and seizing a handgun, the chief added.
A fourth person ran from the scene and evaded police Thursday morning. . . .
The manager of the game room, identified by police as 38-year-old Mohammad Ghali, is facing a charge of keeping a gambling place, García said.

“Get money,” get dead. Dallas CBS affiliate KTVT tells us what you already knew: “Garcia adds Jefferson had an extensive criminal history, including prison time for a string of business robberies in 2009.”

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In The Mailbox: 07.08.24

Posted on | July 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.08.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Doug Hagin of the Daley Gator could use your help dealing with some crushing medical expenses.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

2292: Grandpa BUFF does a flyby in honor of the recently decommissioned USS Enterprise
(NCC-1701-A)

OVER THE TRANSOM
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EBL: Trump Appeal To Black Voters, The War of the Sicilian Vespers, and Le Pen Party Blocked by Macron and Leftists
Twitchy: Patriot Front Jumps Out Of Their U-Haul In Nashville, The Union Of People Who Work For The NEA Are Striking – Against The NEA, and Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy Says Jill Biden Attended White House Meetings
Louder With Crowder: Trump caught on hidden (and hilarious) video sharing his true thoughts about Biden, Kamala
Vox Popoli: Four Episodes of Mr. Tubcuddle, Scientologist, DOA in Wales, Vote for Peace, Why BRICS Can’t Replace the G7, and Freakshow Cubed
Based Book Sale: Summer Based Book Sale Roundup
Upstream Reviews: Storm Between The Stars,
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Nailing My Colours To The Mast
Stoic Observations: Eastern Self In The Western World
Gab: Playing The Long Game

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: SCOTUS Delivers Setbacks to Anti-Trump Lawfare
American Greatness: Bidengate and the Doom Loop, also, Black Talk Radio hosts Admit Biden Campaign Provided Them With Questions to Ask During Interviews
American Thinker: The Left Is Coming Undone, Joe, Take the Damn Cognitive Test, and Donald Trump, Gunslinger
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Children at a pediatric hospital in Cuba being fed slop, Chinese capital bypasses Cuba and flows to Mexico, Meanwhile, back in the motherland . . . bulls and Zen enlightenment for Cubans, and Two more Cuban mercenaries killed in Ukraine war, both elite soldiers sent by Cuban armed forces
BattleSwarm: Happy July 4th! LinkSwarm for July 5, Demolition Ranch Tests YouTube’s New Automatic Weapons Policies, Austin Security Guard Slammed For Doing His Job Finds New Gig, and The Case Of The Fake Filipino
Behind The Black: SpaceX releases new video of the fourth Starship/Superheavy test flight in June, Can you spot the supernova? SpaceX launches Turkey’s first homebuilt geosynchronous communications satellite, $243.6 million plea deal allows Boeing to avoid a criminal trial, New print edition of Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, and Study: Mortality rates higher for those who got the COVID jab
Cafe Hayek: Industrial Output Per Capita
CDR Salamander: Ready For a Lean Six Sigma Flashback?
Chicago Boyz: Odes to Liberty, Transmitting the Passwords – or Not, and What Happened to Serious Economic Policy Debates?
Da Tech Guy: CNN Airbrushes Scott Jennings Comments From Their Debate Panel & I Surprise Myself, July Indulgence Calendar, Biden’s Dementia & Other Matters Under The Fedora, A Melancholy Fourth, The Declaration of Independence From Coolidge to Biden, and Which is more tyrannical the British Government of 1776 or the Federal Government of today?
Dana Loesch: “Ho, Ho, Ho! Happy Independence Day!”, also, Last Week In Legal – SCOTUS Ruling Affects Everything Edition
Don Surber: Who’s more unfit, FJB or the press?
First Street Journal: Antisemitism at Columbia University, Blaming other people for your failures, Philadelphia’s war on the city’s poor, The part the media didn’t mention, and A hospital, supposedly an institution of science, wants trained health care professionals to be ‘educated’ that girls can be boys and boys can be girls?
Gates Of Vienna: Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 9, Our Democracy™: Alternatives to the Ballot Box, Iron Bars Become Active in Porto, and Honor Killing in Joure
The Geller Report: NY Times Reporter Says ‘I Wish Somebody Would Kill Trump’, also, ‘No Future for Jews’: Pro-Hamas Far Left Shocking Win in France Election, Violent Riots Ensue Celebrating Le Pen’s Loss
Hollywood In Toto: Adventures of Baron Munchausen Debunks Oldest Hollywood Saw, Rob Reiner Does 180 on President Biden – It’s Time to Step Down, Sorry / Not Sorry is the Louis C.K. Documentary We Need. Mostly, and The Left Eats Its Own: Hollywood Edition
The Lid: New York Liberals Turn Backs on Independence Day, Have Pro-Palestine Parade and Burn U.S. Flags Instead, also, Elon Musk Warns of Losing America if Democrat ‘Traitors’ Allow Non-Citizens to Vote
Legal Insurrection: Report: Biden Event Staffers Detail Every Move for Him, Including Path to Podium, Key Squad Members Still Ridin’ With Biden, Northwestern College Outside of Chicago Closes Suddenly After 122 Years, Does Gavin Newsom Have A Problem With Joe Biden Pointedly Choosing A Black Woman As His VP? University of Manitoba ‘Decolonizes’ Art Collection Due to ‘Problematic’ Paintings and Sculptures, and Newsom & Democrats Pull Weak Anti-Crime Measure From California’s November Ballot
Michelle Catalano: The joy is back
Nebraska Energy Observer: Monday
Outkick: Is John Cena on the Mount Rushmore of Professional Wrestling? Hunter Who Shot Charging Bear With Pistol Shares Epic Details, Fever Coach Says Caitlin Clark Is Up There With WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi, Even As A Rookie, ESPN’s Failed Investments Into Woke Sportscasters Leaves The Network No Choice But To Pay Stephen A., Elly De La Cruz Is Trying To Learn Japanese So He Can Talk To Shohei Ohtani At The ASG, and Danica Patrick Talks Penis Size, Emily Mayfield Hits The Lake & Peyton Manning’s Wife Stuns The Internet
Power Line: Absence of Justice, A word from Governor Isuzu, Left Cues up the F-Bomb, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Gaetz Launches Bipartisan El Salvador Caucus
Shot In The Dark: Just As In 2016, As Clearly As He Can, While We’re Spitballing Here, and Sanitized
STUMP: The Week In Meep,
The Political Hat: When in the Course of Human Events…
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Veteran told he’s not American, loses driver’s license, Navy Chief Petty Officer gets shot as his alarm clock goes off, Trump calls for tribunals, Pride of Iran’s Navy in the news/ News from Mars, President Jill Speaks to Vets, and Trump-proofing NATO
Transterrestrial Musings: Just In Time For The Election, also, Sabine Hossenfelder
Victory Girls: Biden Phones It In, And Tells Dems By Letter To Shut Up
Volokh Conspiracy: The Supreme Court’s Trump Exceptionalism, also, Justice Thomas Explains Why The President, Vice President, Speaker and Senate President Pro Tempore Cannot Be “Officers of the United States”
Watts Up With That: Energy, Business Groups Ask Supreme Court To Stop California From Forcing EVs On the Rest of America, also, Cause or Effect?
The Federalist: Meet The Shadowy Left-Wing Nonprofit Harvesting Voter Data To Juice Democrat Turnout, French Election Upset Should Remind Republicans They Can’t Afford To Be Complacent, Court Rules Doctors Threatened For Questioning The Covid Regime Can Sue Tyrannical Credentialing Boards, Dems Are Consolidating Absolute Power In The Name Of ‘Democracy’, Joe Biden Is Not A Decent Man, Biden Admin Plans To Kill Hundreds Of Thousands Of Owls In The Name Of ‘Conservation’, and Biden’s Debilitation Has Upset The Media-Democrat Partnership, But Not For Much Longer
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Rule Five Sunday: All American Girl

Posted on | July 8, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another 2D cutie.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Toobin Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Lawrence of Arabia, Olivia Culpo Gets Married, Maria Callas, Happy 4th of July, There’s A Special Day Tomorrow, MAGA SCOTUS, Marquis De Sade, Canada Day, and Veronica DiCaire

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Anna-Lisa Christiane, Fish Pic Friday – Surfer Girl Liv, Topless Mopsters Protest Conservative Victory in France, Happy 4th!, Crabs in the News!, Trump Manhattan Sentencing Delayed Pending Immunity Appeal, The Wednesday Wetness, Playing With Fire, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for July 5th

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FMJRA 2.0: Even Worse

Posted on | July 7, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Even Worse

— compiled by Wombat-socho

My Senators’ agony continued this week, as we lost two out of three to the Angels and then got swept by the Hated Yankees. Worse, in looking at my roster, I’m going to have to replace most of my position players since most of them turn into pumpkins in 1973.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Just a bad week all around.

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‘Team Joe’ Sends Me E-Mail

Posted on | July 6, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Team Joe’ Sends Me E-Mail

Many years ago, when I was covering Hillary Clinton’s doomed 2008 Democratic primary campaign, I clicked a link saying I would attend one of her appearances in Pennsylvania, and ever since then, my email address has been passed around to every other Democratic campaign, which is why this morning, I received this message:

As a journalist, of course, it’s helpful to see what kind of messages Democrats are getting in their e-mail inboxes at a time when the Real Clear Politics average shows Trump — “a liar and an extremist … an unhinged, ranting and raving lunatic,” according Team Joe — with nearly a 4-point lead in battleground states. The recipients of the Biden campaign email are expected to believe “that Donald Trump is a threat to our country and our democracy,” and also to believe that the Biden campaign has a plan for “how exactly we’re going to defeat Donald Trump in November.” Right — and for the right price, I’d be willing to sell you that bridge I own in Brooklyn. The point is that the people who run the Democratic Party operate with the presumption that their voters are imbeciles who will believe whatever they’re told, and who am I to say that this presumption is wrong? The only regret I have is that these people probably won’t lose as badly as they deserve to lose.

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‘Dangerously Out of Touch’: ABC Interview Doesn’t Quell Dump-Biden Talk

Posted on | July 6, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Dangerously Out of Touch’: ABC Interview Doesn’t Quell Dump-Biden Talk

The vultures are now circling overhead above the decaying carcass of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. The damage done by the June 27 debate cannot be repaired or wished away. The number of House Democrats calling for Biden to step aside as the party’s nominee has now increased to five, with Minnesota Rep. Rep. Angie Craig joining Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton and Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley. Within the next 24 hours, I’d expect at least a half-dozen more House Democrats to add their names to the list and meanwhile, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner is reportedly trying to get a group of his fellow Senate Democrats to join him in calling for Biden to withdraw as candidate. The point made by Obama’s political guru David Axelrod — that the polls show a 16-point swing toward Trump, compared to four years ago — can only be ignored by Democrats if they’ve simply given up hope of beating Trump. Julian Castro sees it clearly:

“The overwhelming impression that I got from [Friday’s ABC interview] is that you have a president that is basically in denial, denial about the decline that people can clearly see. . . . Denial about the polling, about how far behind he is in the battleground states.”

The problem for Democrats like Castro and Axelrod who see the writing on the wall is that they and their friends in the media have spent the past four years telling their voters that Joe Biden is the only one who can save them from Donald Trump, and the mindless mob of Democratic voters believe whatever they’re told. So if the Democrats dump Biden now, they will alienate many millions of their own voters. The fact that none of the likely replacements for Biden — Harris, Newsom, Whitmer, “Big Mike,” etc. — is likely to beat Trump in November means that dumping Biden won’t really help and may, in the long run, hurt the Democratic Party.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.”

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