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‘Comprehensive Gun Safety Measures’

Posted on | June 3, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Comprehensive Gun Safety Measures’

When the only tool you’ve got is a hammer, it is said, every problem looks like a nail. When you’re a Democrat, every problem looks like an opportunity for government regulation:

Advocates took a stand against gun violence Friday at the Chester County Courthouse. Cease Fire PA wore orange as they held a rally to kick off Gun Violence Awareness Month.
Survivors and gun control advocates came together to honor those lost and pushing for the state legislature to pass more comprehensive gun safety measures.
Many hospitals in Philadelphia feel like a war zone with so many gunshot victims. The team at Jefferson’s Einstein Medical Center is working hard to save lives in the hospital and the community.
“I didn’t know if I was ever going to walk again,” said Thomas Hunter.
Hunter was temporarily paralyzed after being shot in the abdomen three years ago.
“It can happen to anybody,” he said.
Knowing the agony of gun violence, the 26-year-old now works at Jefferson’s Einstein Medical Center, helping other victims and their families.
“I meet them where they’re at. I instill them with hope, resiliency and empowerment,” Hunter said.
Einstein’s trauma center is ground zero for gun carnage. Hundreds of victims end up there and it’s taking an emotional toll on the staff.
“Every single shift, they feel that burden of the constant gun violence in our city,” said Sarah Misuro, who is a nurse. “It weighs very heavily on you – everybody.”
Orange flowers are planted in front of the hospital for Gun Violence Awareness Day and people are being encouraged to wear orange to honor victims and their families.
“Our healthcare team struggles with this every day,” said Juanita Way, with Jefferson Einstein Medical Center.
Desperate to do something, the team at Einstein sold t-shirts and raised $10,000 to buy gun locks that they’re giving away in the hospital.
“We aren’t making a dent in it, so we gotta figure out something to do,” Way said.
Way, along with Einstein’s gun violence prevention task force, thinks the gun locks can help protect children and reduce accidental shootings, as well as make gun owners more responsible.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Has Ms. Way taken a close look at the kind of “gun owners” who are actually perpetrating the violence in Philadelphia? Has she examined the statistics or analyzed the various cases that make headlines in the city that has been dubbed “Killadelphia”? Grant that the city’s homicide rate is not as high as Memphis, St. Louis, Baltimore or New Orleans, but it’s high enough to be in the deadly category of Worse Than Chicago.

But the people who are committing the shootings in Philadelphia are not going to be deterred by any “gun safety measures” that the Pennsylvania legislature might conceivably pass, and they certainly aren’t going to become “responsible” by giving them free gun locks.

Crime is a people problem, and the only way to deal with it is to (a) identify the criminals and (b) put them in prison.

What has gone wrong in “Killadelphia,” as in so many other American cities, is that Democrats have elected a “progressive” district attorney, Larry Krasner, who doesn’t want to put criminals in prison. As a result, you have convicted felons running amok in a climate of lawlessness where criminals do not fear the police. This problem cannot be solved by passing new laws, when the existing laws are not being enforced.

Car theft? Against the law. Assault? Against the law. Narcotics trafficking? Against the law. Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon? Against the law. Each of these laws present an opportunity to put criminals behind bars, where they can no longer endanger the public and yet, because Democrats in Philadelphia elected Larry Krasner as their D.A., the criminals who commit such felonies are being turned loose in the name of “social justice,” with the deadly results bemoaned by the kind of liberal idiots who think they can stop criminals by selling T-shirts and giving away free gun locks. A couple of years ago, I dubbed Philadelphia “Carjack City, U.S.A.” This was related to a case in which a convicted felon named Stanley Cochran went on a rampage that ended after he shot a 19-year-old woman in the head while he was trying to steal her car. The important question was, why was Cochran not behind bars? Why was he turned loose? And the simplest answer is, “social justice.”

The carjacking problem in Philadelphia hasn’t gone away. Instead, it’s gotten worse — more than 1,300 last year, a rate of more than three carjackings per day in the city — and Krasner’s response? He announced the formation of a new “task force” to deal with the cases.

How about this, Larry? PUT CRIMINALS IN PRISON.

Never hear that at “Gun Violence Awareness” rallies, I bet.



 

 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 06.02.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 3, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.02.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts, including a massive double-scoop Rule 5 Sunday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The FBI Lied – Now He Gets To Sue
EBL: Christie and Pence 2024
Twitchy: “Biology Hasn’t Changed”, also, Civil Rights Lawyer Informs Elon Musk That Misgendering Someone Is, In Fact, “Absolutely Illegal”
Louder With Crowder: Reporters track down disgraced Bud Light exec as her blunder sends stock into bear territory, Porch Pirate Tries Being Slick, Winds Up Eating Fists When Homeowner Comes Home at Wrong Time, and Ron DeSantis gives a masterclass in shutting down heckler
Vox Popoli: Be Kind to Machines, also, The Great Coincidence of Clown World
According To Hoyt: The Evil of Lies, Staying Alive, and Through Their Fingers
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 Ep17: High Tide/Low Tide, WriterDojo S4 Ep18: Supporter Spectacular IX, WriterDojo S4 Ep19: Beginnings, and WriterDojo S4 Ep 20: Greatest Hits (Vol. 1)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in Ukraine, also, Cops and Popes and Latin Mass
American Greatness: FBI Finally Caves, Agrees to Hand Over Documents on Biden Bribery Allegations, IMDb Is Rigging Reviews for ‘The Little Mermaid’, and Trump Still Has the Magic
American Thinker: Jesse Morgan and the 200k Missing Ballots — an Update, The Party’s Over, and ‘Pride’ is Nothing to Celebrate
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Civil War Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship exporting building materials as homes in Cuba crumble and remain in disrepair, Castro regime building a 500 room, high-rise apartheid hotel while Cubans suffer food and fuel shortages, and Cuba buys European baseballs from friend of Fidel Castro’s son at twice the price MLB teams pay
Baldilocks: Is California Really Red?
BattleSwarm: The League of the Boned: Turkey, No. And No, Kicking The Debt Can Down The Road To 2024, and LinkSwarm for June 2
Behind The Black: Newly discovered Starliner issues delay launch again, Shadowcam on South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter sees no obvious ice in the permanently shadowed interior of Spudis crater, and Avalanche to the east of Gale Crater on Mars
Cafe Hayek: A Speculative Thought, also, Industrial Policy Would Ensure Failure
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: What Things Cost, Then and Now, also, History Friday – A Visit to Fort Sam Houston
Da Tech Guy: Why Are You Surprised?, Reality Check on the Debt Ceiling, One tiny Christian college is fighting the good fight against  Biden’s transgender insanity, It’s No Coincidence that the Capital Police Stopped this Children’s Choir at this Point in the National Anthem, and New YouTube, same as the old YouTube
Don Surber: Mock Them Until They Cry
First Street Journal: Oops! Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Vinny Vella might be about to get called on the carpet!, The deceased was trying diligently to get his life back on track, and No matter how low you bow, you cannot bow low enough for the left!
Gates Of Vienna: ‘Love Jihad’ — Global Conquest by Any Means Necessary, Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting, When Rape is a Group Activity, The European Union Will Shut Your Mouth For You, and Paying For Their Own Demise
The Geller Report: Biden’s Hate-America-First Regime Closes Off More US Lands to Oil and Gas Drilling, also, ‘Totally Fine’: Far-Left, America-Hating Enemedia Cover for Biden After Fall
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, What’s Up for June, 2023
Hollywood In Toto: ‘Boycott Target’ Hits No. 1 on iTunes, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Bloated as It Is Glorious, Conservatives Adopt Cancel Culture Tactics Against The Chosen, and MSNBC.com Calls for Comedians to Censor Themselves (Indefinitely)
The Lid: Did The Durham Report Just Expose The Magic Behind DOE’s Smart Energy?
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Department of Energy Directs $46 million in Funds to 8 Nuclear Fusion Companies, Networks Offering RNC Sweet Deals to Host Republican Primary Debates, Ousted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Will Teach at Harvard, ‘Jews Against Soros’ Launches, and Vermont School Settles With Family Punished for Criticizing Trans Student in Girls’ Sports
Nebraska Energy Observer: Way back when, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Jemele Hill Is Out At Spotify After Daring Company To Pay A Black Host $100 Million, U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Thrashed By Wrexham Men’s Team Made Up Of Older Players, Just Two SEC Teams Will Play 10 Power 5 Opponents In 2023, NCAA Baseball Postseason: LSU Has Top 2 MLB Draft Picks, So It Better Make It To Omaha – TV Times, and Big 12 Conference Looking To Further Expand, As $440 Million Shared With Member Schools. Will Colorado-Deion Sanders Make The Jump?
Power Line: We Live In a World Gone Trans-Mad, Thoughts from the ammo line, and Sex Change Operations Do No Good
Shark Tank: Mast Provides Rationale For Voting Against Debt Ceiling Agreement
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins -Year 3, also, Urban Planning
STUMP: 2023 Summer Warning: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, also, Podcast: the Museum of Failure
The Political Hat: For The Crime Of Misgendering-  Prohibited From Teaching, Unpersoning Monty Python, & Prosecuted For Objecting To A Male Breastfeeding, also, Transgendering The Fetus
This Ain’t Hell: Friday short takes – AF Grad Miss Colorado, hunters win, more Hunter whistleblowers, USAF unleashes AI, AI then kills human operator, Valor Friday, and Two militiamen planned to kill illegal aliens and border agents
Transterrestrial Musings: Living In The Danger Zone, also, On The Crusades
Victory Girls: Chick-fil-A is Not Going to Hell
Volokh Conspiracy: On Religious Divisiveness and the Judicial Role
Watts Up With That: More Amtrak High-Speed Train Delays, New York Senator Is Taking Legislative Action to Stop The “Transition” Until A Fossil Fuel Replacement Is Identified, and The Actual Levelized Cost Of Energy
Weasel Zippers: California School District Stands By Anti-Israel Curriculum, WH Staffer Physically Pushes Biden Onto Field At Air Force Graduation Ceremony, and CNBC: Increase In Unemployment Rate “MUCH Worse Than Expected” As Biden Economy Reels
The Federalist: Biden Interior Department Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development, An Unapologetic Defense Of The Crusades, More Suspected Terrorists Found Illegally Crossing Southern Border In April Than In Four Trump Years Combined, Leading GOP Election Officials: Feds’ ‘Treasonous’ Interference Is A ‘Direct Attack’ On U.S. Elections, and Pride Month Is About Activism, Not Acceptance
Mark Steyn: Stating the Obvious, Hooligans and Homelessness, and Live Around the Planet: Friday June 2nd

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In The Mailbox: 06.02.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 2, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.02.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I think if I try really hard, I can get caught up on the links tonight, so look for another late-night link dump to follow this one.
Narrowly missed having my Kia jacked in the ramp at the Stratosphere, but apparently the thieves were clumsy and succeeded only in breaking off the part of the driver’s door handle that covers the lock. Inconvenient, but better than having the car stolen and used in some sort of criminal activity.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Kayleigh McEnany is Awesome, also, Sojourner Truth’s “Aint I A Woman”
Twitchy: DAMNING FOIA Request Shows Just How Much The CDC Worked With Teachers Unions To Keep Schools Closed, also, Joe Scarborough Claims Biden Has Gotten More Done Than Any President Since Reagan, Gets Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Teacher leads teens in-depth discussion why anal sex is pleasurable, tells students to shop at Target, also, Fastest girl in Connecticut suing state after losing to trans runners: “Two athletes took so many opportunities”
Vox Popoli: Stormy Seas Ahead, SpongeBob PedoPants, and Self-Immolation Redux
Stoic Observations: The Black Diversity Experience

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ukraine is Leftism on Steroids
American Conservative: Rishi Sunak’s Seance, also, Returning to Public Beauty
American Greatness: J6 Footage Shows Camera Rolling as Pelosi Made Her ‘Insurrection’ Exit, also, National Archives Refuses to Hand Over Emails Between Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s Staff
American Thinker: Why the White House Wants War, also, Five Questions for Prospective Republican Candidates
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Cultural Arrogance News
Babalu Blog: Shocking! Cubans finally allowed to vote in a genuine multi-party election, also, Cuban priest says the 64 years of Cuba’s socialist revolution is proof it doesn’t work
BattleSwarm: The Initial Case For DeSantis Over Trump: Smiter of Social Justice, 8 Californians Who Left For Texas Say Why, The Tank Museum On The T-14 Armata, and Memorial Day: Honoring George D. Keathley
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: May activity once again far above prediction, also, Pushback: Christian adoption agency wins against NY’s attempt to force it to send kids to queer families
Cafe Hayek: Continuing to Get Straight the Facts About the American Economy
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Education, AI, and Narcissism, also, Dumb Company Tricks
Da Tech Guy: Picking real beer, real razors and real clothing stores, The mainstream media was wrong about Bud Light: Boycotts work, and Tell Me Your Target Audience is…Interesting Without Saying Your Target Audience is…Interesting
Don Surber: Pride? It’s Accordion Awareness Month!
First Street Journal: The real way to keep your kids out of trouble, At what point does it have to be asked: “Jim Kenney, Larry Krasner, Danielle Outlaw, have you no shame?”, and Some people still have a sad that the COVID ‘state of emergency’ is over.
Gates Of Vienna: Alessandra Mussolini: The EU Should Be Rescuing the Migrants, The Bud Light Moment, Another Great Prisoner Swap, Piglets on the Wing, and This is What a Real Hate Crime Looks Like
The Geller Report: ‘Missing’ Biden Family Corruption Probe Witness Living as Fugitive in Undisclosed Location, also, Joe Biden Takes MAJOR FALL on Stage at U.S. Air Force Academy Graduation
Glenn Reynolds: Actual Malice
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, IR to UV, and What’s Confusing You is Just the Nature of It’s Game
Hollywood In Toto: Blaze TV’s Re-Opening Skewers Lockdowns to Hilarious Effect, Why About My Father Missed a Golden Opportunity, Influencer Captures Horror of Our Instagram Age, and Progressive Little Mermaid Not Woke Enough (UPDATED)
The Lid: Parents Enraged As Migrants Enroll In Their Schools Without Health Records After Years Of COVID Rules, More than 350 Companies have Fled California since 2018, and Fox Prime Down One Million Viewers Per Night Since Booting Tucker: OUCH! That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
Legal Insurrection: Hospital Official Bemoans “Heart-Wrenching” Decision to Discontinue Child Gender Transition Services, Lefty Lunatic and Former San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin Hired by U.C. Berkeley Law, and NYC Mayor Eric Adams Slammed for Spouting “Body Positivity” Nonsense
Nebraska Energy Observer: Pentecost, Whitsunday, Decoration Day, Where is America headed?, and Leadership v Managerialism
Outkick: Toronto Blue Jays’ Anthony Bass Gets Mercilessly Booed After Bowing To Woke Mob, Jay Cutler Bags Massive Bear On Successful Hunting Trip, and Rams DC Saves Drowning Child In Las Vegas
Power Line: “Break the Wheel,” or something, part 3, also, Trump/Cuomo In 2024?
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Introduces Bill To Make Colleges More Responsible For Student Debt
Shot In The Dark: There Isn’t Much, also, Mitch Edits Hollywood For Accuracy
STUMP: Podcast: Walking Around Cemeteries, also, Sunday Sumo: May Tournament Wrap-Up — Who Was Most Unique?
The Political Hat: Teaching Racial Hate In California, The Orwellian Erasure Of Women, and Leviathan’s School Meals
This Ain’t Hell: Retired Officers Urge Congress to End DoD’s Toxic ‘Diversity’ and ‘Equity’ Programs, SECDEF CANS Gay Pride Drag Show, Red Chinese ship detained for looting WWII shipwrecks, and Candidate Who Lied About Military Record Drops Out of Race
Transterrestrial Musings: The Republicans’ Choice, The Kids Are All Right, Russia’s Brain Drain, and Space-Based Solar Power
Victory Girls: Ronna McDaniel Had Better Start Leading, also, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. For President? No.
Volokh Conspiracy: “Could Hunter Biden Be the Next Poster Child for Second Amendment Rights?”, also, Ex-San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Appointed Director of Berkeley Law’s new Criminal Law & Justice Center
Watts Up With That: Bureaucrats Completely Incapable of Making Reasonable Trade-Offs, also, Climate Lockdowns Begin: France bans short-haul flights in favor of train travel ‘to cut carbon emissions’
Weasel Zippers: University Program Linking Christians And Republicans To Nazis Granted DHS Funding By Biden Admin, Glamour Magazine Features “Pregnant Trans Man” On Cover, and Biden Struggles To Read From Script
The Federalist: Corporate Media Hack Interrupts DeSantis While He’s Talking To Voters To Ask Why He Won’t Talk To Voters, The Campaign To Destroy SCOTUS Is Getting Increasingly Stupid, Biden HHS Denies Oklahomans Health Care Funding Because The State Won’t Spend It On Abortions, and Meet The Violent Anarchist Behind DHS’s ‘Pyramid Of Far-Right Radicalization’ Scandal
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman: Two Centuries of Rugby, Part III, also, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport

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CBS News (Barely) Lets Catherine Herridge Report About the Biden Scandal

Posted on | June 2, 2023 | Comments Off on CBS News (Barely) Lets Catherine Herridge Report About the Biden Scandal

Having witnessed a few newsroom shouting matches in my day, I can see Catherine Herridge hurling her coffee cup and yelling expletives at whatever editor was responsible for this headline on her article:

Comer says Wray confirmed existence of record
reporting alleged Biden bribery scheme,
which the White House strongly refutes

Oh, they refuted it, did they? Words have meanings, and the word “refute” is synonymous with disprove. The White House has done no such thing; what they have done is to deny any accusation of wrongdoing and to smear the congressional investigators attempting to get access to a document (an FD-1023 form) which has been subpoenaed, but which the FBI director has refused to turn over to them. Denials and smears are certainly not a refutation of anything, and I imagine Herridge would very much like to strangle whoever wrote that headline. And I also imagine she had some pretty heated back-and-forth with her bosses over the story itself. Herridge is one of two known conservative sympathizers (the other being Major Garrett) at CBS News, but providing some semblance of balance in the network’s reporting must require a constant battle to report stories that the Biden administration wants to bury. Anyway . . .

Here is the story, with a few of my comments:

GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed “the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.”
Comer believes the FBI record contains “a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose,” he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form “describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”
While Comer and Grassley said in Wednesday’s statement that the record includes “very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,” they did not provide further evidence to support the claim.
Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, said: “This silly charade by Chairman Comer is yet another reminder that his so-called ‘investigations’ are political stunts not meant to get information but to spread thin innuendo and falsehoods to attack the President. He has already admitted this isn’t about uncovering facts but about trying to hurt the President’s poll numbers, so the only question left is how long he will waste time, energy, and taxpayer dollars to support a fact-free politically-motivated goose chase simply to get media attention and the Fox News spotlight.”

(Do you see anything — anything at all — in that White House statement that could be considered a “refutation”? No. What you see is a lot of mockery and deflection, but nothing directly addressing the real substance of the investigation.)

According to Comer, Wray offered in a phone call Wednesday to allow lawmakers to view it at FBI headquarters. Comer issued the subpoena earlier this month after a whistleblower had provided GOP lawmakers with information about an alleged bribery scheme involving Mr. Biden.
Grassley and Comer spoke with Wray by phone Wednesday after the FBI director did not provide the document by the May 30 deadline. The two Republicans are seeking evidence of any FBI probe into the allegation, and whether it was substantiated or deemed not credible.
Comer has said he would hold Wray in contempt of Congress if he did not turn over the document, and he reiterated Wednesday that he remains committed to initiating contempt proceedings.
“Today, FBI Director Wray confirmed the existence of the FD-1023 form alleging then-Vice President Biden engaged in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national,” Comer said in his statement.
In a statement to CBS News, the FBI described the FD-1023 form as a document “used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting by a confidential human source.” The bureau noted that “[d]ocumenting the information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information verified by the FBI.”

(When did liberals become such fans of the FBI? As someone old enough to remember when the Church Committee era, I’m shocked by this development.)

Comer said that in their conversation, “Director Wray did not commit to producing the documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.”
“While Director Wray — after a month of refusing to even acknowledge that the form existed — has offered to allow us to see the documents in person at FBI headquarters, we have been clear that anything short of producing these documents to the House Oversight Committee is not in compliance with the subpoena,” Comer said, adding that if the FBI failed to submit the document to the committee, he would begin contempt of Congress proceedings.

(Imagine the headlines if the FBI had treated a Democrat-controlled investigation this way: “FBI Director Defies Subpoena; Congress Threatens Contempt Charge.” But the media only seeks to manufacture public outrage when it involves demonizing Republicans or trying to provoke race riots.) 

In a statement, Grassley said, “While the FBI has apparently leaked classified information to the news media in recent weeks, jeopardizing its own human sources, it continues to treat Congress like second class citizens by refusing to provide a specific unclassified record. Director Wray confirmed what my whistleblowers have told me pursuant to legally protected disclosures: the FBI-generated document is real, but the bureau has yet to provide it to Congress in defiance of a legitimate congressional subpoena. This failure comes with consequences.”
In describing the FD 1023, Christopher Dunham, acting assistant director for the Bureau’s Office of Congressional Affairs, wrote in a May 10 letter that the FBI avoids “revealing information — including unverified or incomplete information — that could harm investigations, prejudice prosecutions or judicial proceedings, unfairly violate privacy or reputational interests, or create misimpressions in the public. Often, even confirming the fact of the existence (or nonexistence) of an investigation or a particular piece of investigative information can risk these serious harms.”
The FBI confirmed the phone call, but didn’t discuss the alleged document.
“During today’s call, Director Wray offered to provide the committee’s chairman and ranking member an opportunity to review information responsive to the subpoena in a secure manner to accommodate the committee, while protecting the confidentiality and safety of sources and important investigative sensitivities,” the FBI said in a statement. “The FBI has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the committee to accommodate its request, from scheduling briefings and calls to now allowing the chair to review information in person. The FBI remains committed to cooperating with the committee in good faith.”
When Comer and Grassley first announced the subpoena to obtain the document, Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, said: “For going on five years now, Republicans in Congress have been lobbing unfounded, unproven, politically-motivated attacks against the president and his family without offering evidence for their claims or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. interests.”

(Again, the White House “refutes” nothing.)

Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released a report alleging that Biden family members and associates received over $10 million from foreign entities, but the White House noted that Republican investigators could not point to “a single Joe Biden policy” that was unduly influenced.

Thanks to Catherine Herridge for whatever angry shouting matches were necessary to get CBS News to actually let her report this story, which the rest of the mainstream media are trying to ignore altogether.

Permit me to suggest that what’s going on here — I mean, with the Biden scandal, not the shouting matches at CBS News — is that there is now a cover-up of the cover-up. That is to say, Christopher Wray and other corrupt officials atop the FBI hierarchy deliberately sabotaged the investigation of the Biden family’s foreign influence-peddling (a scandal that includes such crimes as tax evasion, wire fraud and money laundering), and that what they’re trying to do now is to sabotage the congressional investigation of their previous sabotage.

If Catherine Herridge’s bosses at CBS News had any integrity, they’d dig in on this story and lead the nightly news with it five days a week.



 

 

Category: CBS, Joe Biden, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 06.01.23

Posted on | June 1, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.01.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in May. I appreciate your support!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Google Vs. Fair Elections, Self-Defense May Be Legal In Chicago, 
Flappr: Until?
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2096
EBL: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also, Mahlagha Jaberi
Twitchy: “It Is DEFINITELY Allowed”, also, News Site Tries To Gotcha DeSantis, Twitter Rates Them A Rotten Tomato
Louder With Crowder: #BoycottTarget takes lead on iTunes: Conservative values Trump mainstream artists Taylor Swift,  Luke Combs, also, Mom dresses like drag queen at school board meeting to make point about what’s appropriate for kids
Vox Popoli: Saving the Devil Mouse, Clown World vs Gamma World, Never Talk to the Media, and The Little Trashmaid Sinks

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I wouldn’t be dead for quids
American Conservative: ‘Back to Basics’ in Education Is Not Enough, also, To Our Country and Our Dead
American Greatness: Target’s Marketing VP also Works for Organization Pushing Transgender Agenda in Schools, also, Over 300 COVID-Era Medical Papers Retracted due to Scientific Errors, Ethics Concerns
American Thinker: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, also, The Vote Fraud Monster Is Coming for Ted Cruz
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue…Tuesday, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Who is telling these companies to go woke?, also, Russian tourists disgusted by food served at Cuban luxury hotels
BattleSwarm: Q: What Does It Take To Fire A Black Female SJW Professor? A: Holding A Machete Against A Reporter’s Neck, Paxton vs. Phelan Slap Fight, and LinkSwarm for May 26
Behind The Black: Pushback: If the young are beginning to resist the leftist queer agenda, then there is real hope, also, North Korean rocket fails in attempt to put spy satellite into orbit
Cafe Hayek: Only Airheads Believe That the Economy Is Well-Served by ESG Investing, also, Minimum-Wage Legislation Came From a Bad Place
CDR Salamander: Marines – “Huh. Riverine Looks Useful.”, The World We Won, The World We Made, & The World Red China Built While We Were Distracted, 
Chicago Boyz: Dealing With The Threat, also, Welcome Wagon Essay Series: 2
Da Tech Guy: Stacy Reminds me Why I admire him so, also, State Farm Decides California is a Bad Risk
Dana Loesch: Pathological Altruism Via Rainbow Marketing, 
Don Surber: Why This Compromise Sucks, 
First Street Journal: Lies, damned lies, and statistics, Democrisy: How the #Climate activists want you to do as they say, not do as they do, and The Philadelphia Inquirer tells us about its impending death
Gates Of Vienna: German Police Told to Go Easy on Culture-Enrichers, also, Diversity is Our Strength!
The Geller Report: Academic Study Shows That Being A Leftist Drives You Mad, Makes You Crazy, also, FDA Admits That Childrens’ Hearts Are Damaged by Covid Vaccine
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Four Views of Io’s Volcanoes, and Loomer, Jones, and Pushaw
Hollywood In Toto: Tom Hanks Promotes Truth (After Honoring Serial Liar Biden), also, The Boogeyman Lacks That Signature Stephen King Spark
The Lid: HELP! Jane Fonda Wants Me In Jail Because White Men Cause Climate Change, also, GETTING SPECIFIC: Comer Wants FBI Docs For $5 Million In Biden Bribes From Ukraine … Dated June, 2020
Legal Insurrection: Trump Trashes Kayleigh McEnany for the Crime of Allegedly Misquoting Iowa Poll Numbers, also, Colorado College Students Boo and Turn Their Backs on Commencement Speaker Liz Cheney
Nebraska Energy Observer: Were you aware, Once more into the breach, and Down in the Dumps? Well, This Might Help
Outkick: ESPN’s Sam Ponder Responds ‘Biology Is Not Bigotry’, also, Dodgers Pitcher Blake Treinen Backs Teammates Religious Stance Against Dodgers Pride Night
Power Line: Target In a Crossfire Hurricane, also, Senior moment with a local twist
Shark Tank: Mast Chides Biden’s Foreign Policy – “Weakness Invites Aggression”
Shot In The Dark: The Next Big Thing, I Love A Happy Ending, and Notes To Self Re 2023 Session Part I
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 8: External causes of death, also, Update: Why Have “Full Contributors” Lost So Much Ground In Twenty Years in Public Pensions?
The Political Hat: Racial Quotas Are Still Unconstitutional, Massachusetts To Parents: Sterilize Your Kids Of Face Child Abuse Charges, and Cabin Boy Living
This Ain’t Hell: Jane Fonda blames the “climate crisis” on the patriarchy, Texas fall short, Default could have catastrophic effects for veterans, and Reserve Marine Lieutenant Colonel helps bust human-trafficking ring
Transterrestrial Musings: A Declaration Of Decadence, And The Beat Goes On, and C. Boyden Gray
Victory Girls: CUNY Law Grad Goes Full Anti-Semite In Commencement Speech, also, FDA Capriciously Bans OTC Meds For Livestock And Pets
Volokh Conspiracy: Political Ignorance and Misinformation on the Left, also, A Lawyer’s Filing “Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases”—Thanks, ChatGPT?
Watts Up With That: “We have no reason to be against nuclear energy other than prejudice & stupidity”, also, The South African Energy Crisis: A Battle between Power Needs and Environmentalists
Weasel Zippers: WTF Is Going On At Disneyland?, MSNBC Shocked: After 28 Months Of Joe Biden, “Things Are STILL Expensive Across The Board”, and Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman: “We Need To Stop Drilling For Fossil Fuels Completely”
The Federalist: We Need More Christians Like Trevor Williams Not Anthony Bass, Leftist Midwits And Their Media Allies Redefine ‘Banned’ Books, To Address The Loneliness Epidemic, The Feds Want To Control Your Town And Friends, Biden Administration Demands Georgia Schools Show Pornography To Kids, and To Beat The Dodgers’ Anti-Christian Hate, MLB Stars Must Refuse To Play Ball
Mark Steyn: The Shrinking World, also, The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!

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What ‘Diversity’ Really Means

Posted on | June 1, 2023 | Comments Off on What ‘Diversity’ Really Means

No matter how much the elite pretend otherwise:

A recruiter for the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force referred to white men looking to join the air force as “useless white male pilots,” according to emails obtained by several British media outlets.
The comments were reportedly made by Squadron Leader Andrew Harwin in an email discussing board placements for ushering recruits through training.
“I noted that the boards have recently been predominantly white male heavy. If we don’t have enough BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] and female to board then we need to make the decision to pause boarding and seek more BAME and female from the RAF,” Harwin, who worked at the Officer and Aircrew Selection Centre, reportedly wrote in a January 19, 2021, email.
“I don’t really need to see loads of useless white male pilots, let’s get as focused as possible, I am more than happy to reduce boarding if needed to have a balanced BAME/female/male board,” he added.
One RAF source told The Telegraph that the “email clearly demonstrates the endemic culture that was created by the senior leadership to chase ridiculous diversity statistics that were patently unachievable.”
A later email from January 19, 2021, said that the recruiting pool for minorities and women had been “drained.”
“From 336 Cs [candidates] we have [about] 10% female, 5% BAME which we will burn through quickly using the boarding profile proposed,” the email said.
Thirty-one men will be compensated roughly $6,000 each as a result of their training being delayed due to diversity quotas, according to Sky News.

Where this anti-white “diversity” mania began, of course, is in higher education, where discrimination against white males has been more or less overt for the past 25 years. The admissions data that came out of the lawsuit Harvard showed that, year after year, 14% of the freshman class was black — demonstrating that a de facto numerical quota was in effect, otherwise some variation in the percentage would have been expected. Asian students sued because, it was equally obvious, no matter how clearly their superior academic aptitude was demonstrated by GPA and SAT scores, the number of Asian students admitted to Harvard was artificially “capped” at around 20% of the freshman class total. Expert testimony showed that an Asian student whose GPA/SAT gave him a 25% chance of being admitted to Harvard would have had a 95% chance, if he had been black. In other words, being black was worth at least four times as much as academic aptitude. And this type of blatant bias is now being replicated in corporate America (see “Google Lawsuit Exposes Stalinist Climate Protecting Anti-White, Anti-Male Bias,” Jan. 10, 2018).

That these discriminatory practices have now spread to other English-speaking countries, and are being enforced in military training, goes to show how wrong it is to laugh at the latest insane trends in academia. Once bad ideas take hold on college campuses, they usually seep out into the real world, often with disastrous consequences.



 

 

Category: Great Britain, Military, Racism

In The Mailbox: 05.31.23 (Concentrated Punditry Edition)

Posted on | May 31, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.31.23 (Concentrated Punditry Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I am most of the way home, spending a couple of nights at the Stratosphere (like McCarran Airport, I refuse to use the new name) to decompress and relax a bit before my appointment with the VA tomorrow morning and the drive back to Tonopah on Friday. I spent a lot of time hanging around Dulles yesterday because some plans fell through, but I was very tired and not in the mood to try and wade through several days of Feedly posts after being unable to do anything Tuesday because the wifi at the Days Inn in Fredneck failed me. So here’s a bunch of substackery and submitted stuff. Enjoy. Probably going to get caught up later tonight and tomorrow.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Well, sugar, anyway.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #2089
357 Magnum: “Indiana Jones & The Insufferable Feminist”, The Catch & Release Strategy Doesn’t Work In Criminal Justice, Texans Are Still Armed, 
Gab News: A Potent Weapon In The Culture War,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: The Lizard Eye, “I Screw Therefore I Am”, People Of The Lie, 
CDR Salamander: Make The Quad A Quint With A Center Square By 2035, Diversity Thursday, Fullbore Friday, 
Dana Loesch: DeSantis Broke Twitter, Gov. DeSantis Joins The Dana Show, 
Don Surber: Already Lying About Trump’s Second Term, T-Girls May Tip The Election, AP Dares Not Ask About Ukraine, and The Media Protects A Satanist
Glenn Reynolds: Is This The Real Life? Is this Just Fantasy?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: I’ve Got Your “White Fragility” Right Here, My Brother, The White Face Of Black Supremacy,

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Visit Exciting Lowndes County!

Posted on | May 31, 2023 | Comments Off on Visit Exciting Lowndes County!

Look, I’m not saying that every day in Lowndes County, Georgia, is filled with thrilling automotive stunts, but last week, one Florida driver passing through really gave ’em a show on Highway 84:

It looks like a scene straight out of the “Dukes of Hazzard.” A wild video captured the moment a driver hit a tow truck’s flatbed and went flying through the air in south Georgia.
Channel 2 Action News obtained the body camera video from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office from the May 24 crash.
In the video, you can see deputies on the side of a traffic incident on Ga. 38/U.S. 84 when a car comes down one of the lanes and doesn’t slow down.
The car goes up the back of the tow truck and flips through the air.
One of the deputies immediately springs into action and rushes to help the driver. Georgia State Patrol confirmed the driver survived the crash but was hospitalized with serious injuries.
According to the GSP report, the driver’s car “vaulted” approximately 120 feet over the tow truck and hit another car in the back. The car then traveled another 23 feet after impact with the other car.
A Lowndes County deputy was hit by flying debris from the crash and taken to the hospital. No other injuries were reported.
Georgia State Patrol Lt. Crystal Zion told ABC News that the crash stresses the importance of Georgia’s Move Over Law.
“It takes out the distractions of driving fast or phones or other people in the car. Basically, you know, when you see those lights to slow down, move over,” Zion said.
It’s unclear what, if any, charges will be filed against the driver, who remains hospitalized with serious injuries. The deputy injured by the debris was released from hospital and in good condition.

“Hospitalized with serious injuries”? Yeah, being covered in your own fecal matter is pretty serious, because . . . wow!

The local Chamber of Commerce should hire this woman to do repeat performances every weekend as a tourist attraction.



 

 

Category: Georgia
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