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In The Mailbox: 06.23.23

Posted on | June 24, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.23.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Anybody have “Russian civil war during bloody unsuccessful foreign misadventure” on their 2023 bingo cards?
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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From r/NonCredibleDefense

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Tesla, Batteries, & Human Rights Abuses
EBL: Dreaming about Ocean Gate
Twitchy: Mercenary Rebellion Against Russia?, Watch Increasingly Desperate Special K Glitch Out Trying To Avoid Hunter Biden Questions, and Canuckistani Journo Tries Deleting Insane Tweet About Elon Musk’s Followers – But The Internet Is Forever
Louder With Crowder: UFC’s Dana White confirms Elon, Zuckerberg “dead serious” about charity cage match as YOU make your predictions
Vox Popoli: Not Meeting Expectations on Any Front, also, A Word to the Fearful
According To Hoyt: Update On Itty Bitty Kitty, Dominion Voting Machines, Insecure by Design, and The Best Laid Plans
Stoic Observations: The Kwanzaa Reference
Gab News: The Terminal Decline Of Civilization & Hope For The Future

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Teaching the Truth About Communism
American Greatness: Reps. Greene, Stefanik Move to Expunge Trump Impeachments from Congressional Record, Wisconsin GOP to Cut University’s Funding for ‘Diversity’ Programs, and California Bill Would Enable Therapists to ‘Emancipate’ 12-Year-Olds from Their Own Parents
American Power: Submersible Passengers Died in Implosion
American Thinker: President Trump Did What Ross Perot Could Not, Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud, and It’s Not The 50-50 Country that the Woke Want Us to Think It Is
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fascism Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s oligarchs blame island’s extreme food shortages on climate change, Cuba boasts of hosting 1.2 million visitors in past 5 months, nearly half of them Canadians, and Afro-Cuban/Afro-American nun is declared ‘Venerable,’ first step toward canonization
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for June 23
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 56 more Starlink satellites, Ariane-6 engineering test rocket at launchpad for engine tests, House Democrats propose and Republicans approve Space Force increasing spaceport fees, Determining whether a Martian crater is impact or volcanic, and Real pushback: Thirteen university-run child mutilation clinics to shut down this year
Cafe Hayek: Pilkington Is Mistaken About Trade Deficits
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Book and Movie Review: The Valley of Decision
Da Tech Guy: Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: News You May Have Missed
Don Surber: The Wages Of BLM
The Geller Report: NO LOCKDOWNS, NO VAX MANDATES, Sweden Wins With Lowest Pandemic Mortality in Europe, also, SHOCKING! Planned Parenthood Brought Monstrous, Depraved Sex Acts Cards To School To Teach Children
Glenn Reynolds: Run Silent, Run Very Very Deep
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Sonification: Chandra, Spitzer, Hubble, and M104, and Meanwhile, in Russia
Hollywood In Toto: Why Are John Cusack, Chevy Chase (and Randy Quaid!) Hitting the Road?, also, Woke Grease Prequel Canceled, Erased from Paramount+
The Lid: Biden Lies About Guns And The Founders Again
Legal Insurrection: USDA Gives OK for Sale of ‘Lab Grown Meat’ to Public, White House Refusing To Answer Questions About Hunter Biden’s Threatening WhatsApp Message, Lawsuit Against Bias Response Team at Virginia Tech Could Go to Supreme Court, Europeans Mutiny Against Committing Economic Suicide by Green Energy Policy, and Macon Bacon Baseball Team Facing Calls to Change Name, Stop ‘Glorification of Bacon’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Carson Wentz Hunted A Giant Black Bear In Alaska And Some People Aren’t Happy About It, Max Kellerman’s Future At ESPN Is Up In Air, With Both Radio And TV Shows Ending, Shakoi O’Neal! Shaq Now Owns A Massive Koi Shipped In From Japan, Names It ‘Charles Barkley’, LSU And Tommy ‘Tanks’ Top Wake Forest With Walk-Off HR In 11th To Reach World Series Final Series, Gradey Dick Stole The Show During NBA Draft, Likely Just Getting Started, and Donna D’Errico Slips Back Into Iconic Baywatch Swimsuit To Reclaim Title As ‘America’s Hottest Lifeguard’
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, The Roof Is Collapsing On Biden, and On Merrick Garland, a Smoking Gun
Shark Tank: House Republicans Protect Everglades Funding
Shot In The Dark: Rule Changes, also, Anniversary!
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Rules for us but not for them, Super Size That? Fast Food Jobs Bad For Recruiting, Military base at center of drag contraversy hosted pride reading event for kids, and Justice and equality before the law…aw, the hell with it
Transterrestrial Musings: This Fine EdD, Our Titanic, and NASA’s Latest Budget Issue
Victory Girls: Australia Hates Elon Musk
Volokh Conspiracy: Making Sense of Arizona v. Navajo Nation, also, Supreme Court Rules Red States Lack Standing to Challenge Biden Immigration Enforcement Guidelines
Watts Up With That: Hollywood Climate Summit: A Pompous Spectacle of Celebrity Virtue Signaling
The Federalist: Why Gutting Title IX Is Psychological Warfare, How The Ballot Amendment Process Became Democrats’ New Strategy To Entrench Their Agenda Into Law, Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office Buried Biden-Bribery Allegations AG Barr Sent For Investigation, Local Wisconsin Supervisor Calls For Police Investigation After Child Participates In Madison’s Adult Naked Bike Ride, and New FBI Whistleblower Says Deputy Director Threatened Agents Uncomfortable With J6 Investigations
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | June 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

James Lanier (left); Express Mini Mart (right)

Everyone agrees that the late James Windale Lanier had “been dealing with mental health issues,” as WCTI-TV put it. But despite the relevance of this information to Lanier’s untimely demise earlier this year, I’ve been unable to find any media account that specifies how these “issues” had been diagnosed or treated. Because I’m not a licensed clinician and don’t have a copy of the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders handy, I should avoid speculation about Lanier’s mental condition on the evening of Feb. 24. However, based on the report of his behavior, I think it fair to conclude that he was daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off his rocker, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

You see, the late James Lanier was naked at the Express Mini Mart in Wallace, North Carolina, on the evening in question. A clerk at the convenience store called 911 at 10:56 p.m. to report that Lanier was naked, spitting on customers, and trying to start a fight. Three minutes later, the first cop arrived on the scene, and immediately confronted Lanier. Less than 30 seconds after the officer exited his patrol car, Lanier struck him. The officer retreated, repeatedly yelling “get back” at Lanier, who nevertheless advanced on the officer. The officer deployed his taser, but it had no apparent effect. Then the officer pulled his pistol and fired three shots, one of which fatally struck Lanier.

All of this information is derived from a 14-page statement issued last month by District Attorney Ernie Lanier, whose report noted that the situation “rapidly escalated,” and that less than a minute transpired between the officer exiting his patrol car and the fatal shot being fired. Lee said that the officer’s actions were justified, based on the threat posed by Lanier’s behavior. No charges will be filed.

Of course, the family demands answers:

Attorney Ben Crump was in Wallace on Wednesday for a press conference where he demanded the release of video footage in the death of James Lanier.
Crump was joined by members of the victim’s family along with additional attorneys, members of the Duplin County NAACP and others who spoke and kept the chant of “release the video.”
“Don’t say no more, release the video, don’t say no more, release the video,” Crump said as others joined in his chant.
Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney, and the others spoke at Adoram Baptist Church in Wallace during the press conference. Together, they demanded the release of footage in the death of Lanier, an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed outside the Express Mini Market at 814 N. Norwood St. around 11 p.m. on Feb. 24. . . .
“Just understand this thing. I’m trying to say we are trying to save our race and all this stuff. The officer incited race when he shot and killed a black man with a mental health crisis,” Crump said. . . .
“James should be with us,” said Dawn Blagrove, an attorney with Emancipate NC. “And we’re not asking that general had been treated with special care. We’re just asking that he be treated with the same care.”
Family members said they are pushing for the video footage to be made public so people can make their own opinions on the incident.
“I need somebody to help me find justification for them shooting my son, so I want everybody to watch the video so they can show me what I see,” said James Lanier Sr., the father.
Meanwhile, Crump is standing beside the family, fighting for justice.

Oh, he’s “fighting for justice,” is he? Isn’t it more likely that Crump is fighting for a large payoff from the city, so he can collect his lucrative fee as attorney for the Lanier family? It seems to me that this demand for releasing the video (both from surveillance cameras at the store and from the body-worn cameras of the officers on the scene) reflects a belief on the part of Crump that the video would help incite the kind of destructive race riots mostly peaceful protests that would give the city an incentive to make a wrongful death settlement, despite the DA’s finding that the officer acted legally during the incident. And to point out a common factor this incident shares with lots of similar incidents, why is it that no reporter who does these “Family Demands Answers” stories ever asks: “Why didn’t you do something about your nutjob kid before he got shot by the cops?” I mean, how is it that Lanier’s family bears no responsibility for him ending up naked at the Express Mini Mart that night?

Wouldn’t it have been better for him to be strapped into a straitjacket, locked in a padded cell and dosed with Thorazine, than to let his mental illness — whatever the diagnosis was — escalate until he ended up in what seems to have been a suicide-by-cop situation? Because you’ve got to be far gone down the road to Crazytown not to realize that when a cop points a gun at you and yells, “back up,” maybe you should back the fuck up.

Oh, the local police chief has thoughts:

Wallace Police Chief James Crayton came to Wednesday’s press conference to listen to what the community had to say.
“Race had absolutely nothing to do with this,” Crayton said. “The police officer was not white. If and when the superior court judge orders that release, we’ll be happy to release it.”

Does it strike you that Chief Crayton is demonstrating the serenity of a Christian holding four aces? He’s seen the video. He’s not afraid of anything. That speaks volumes about this case.

Mental illness is a serious problem in our society, and nobody wants to see people die this way. As a treatment for acute psychiatric disorders, 124 grains of lead traveling at 1,000 feet per second is perhaps not the preferred medication, but it usually provides a permanent cure.

Remember: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: Crime, North Carolina

Now That We’re All Dead …

Posted on | June 23, 2023 | Comments Off on Now That We’re All Dead …

In case you missed it, humanity was wiped out Tuesday, according to angry Swedish adolescent Greta Thunberg who, for some reason, decided it was prudent to delete that tweet. Her apocalyptic prediction is part of a long series of false prophecies by environmental doomsayers following in the failed footsteps of Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich who, despite being completely debunked, is still sought out as an “expert” by the liberal media. One cannot help but notice that the same people who’ve been wrong about everything regarding climate change — exactly none of their dire predictions have come true — were also the people telling us that The Science™ required economically destructive lockdowns, compulsory masking and mandatory vaccines to deal with COVID-19, all of which measures proved either unnecessary or only modestly efficacious in stemming the pandemic. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

The thing is, intelligent observers have known for decades that the “climate change” hysteria is not scientific. Ronald Bailey is an award-winning science writer for Reason magazine. In 1993, he published Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse, and in 2002, he published Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death. Both of these books, now more than two decades old, are crammed with scientific truth in opposition to the pseudoscientific bullshit of “climate change” and other such environmentalist doomsday myths.

When people say, as they sometimes do, “you ought to write a book” about such a topic, I’m filled with a sense of futility. What’s the point of writing a book debunking “climate change” or some other false liberal belief, when there is already a vast library of books proving that liberals are always wrong about everything? Whatever the issue may be — economics, foreign affairs, education, race relations, you name it — if liberals have any clear set of consensus beliefs on a subject, their opinions and policy preferences are without exception demonstrably wrong.

And yet, Joe Biden is president.

Why even bother pointing out the errors of liberalism? It’s clear that at least half the population is emotionally committed to the pursuit of irrationality and error, no matter what the facts may be.

Yet despite the hopelessness of curing these fanatics of their mental disorder, Catherine Salgado at PJMedia points out the latest evidence that the “climate change” kooks are wrong: Computer-model predictions of temperatures in the U.S. “corn belt” (i.e., the agricultural heartland that feeds the world) have all overestimated the warming trend.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

In the past 50 years, the actual temperature increase was minimal, a fraction of a single degree of warming. But every one of the computer models predictions had predicted at least twice as much of an increase, with some missing it by far larger factors. This is not a minor error, nor is it a trivial matter. If “climate change” was real, the possibility of dramatic warming in the world’s prime agricultural region — producing severe droughts and other adverse weather effects — would be catastrophic. But the predictions were all wrong, and there has been no catastrophe.

And despite Greta Thunberg’s prediction that humanity would be wiped out by Tuesday, I’m still very much alive, and so are you. And I’m glad. Otherwise, you couldn’t HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR.



 

 

Category: Global Warming, Science

In The Mailbox: 06.22.23

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The Big Based Book Sale!

Silicon Valley delenda est.

A message from the WEF and HRC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

 

Category: Media Bias

White Privilege or … Biden Privilege?

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 06.21.23

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Worse still, they went woke:

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

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



 

 

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