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In The Mailbox: 06.20.23

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“In case of danger- burn”

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

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

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Slap on the Wrist for Hunter Biden

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

Because it’s different when Democrats do it:

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

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



 

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Democrats

Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

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

During Pride Month!

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

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

Cordell Howze (left); Cashay Henderson (right)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



 

 

Category: Crime, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 06.19.23

Posted on | June 19, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.19.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Legendary Ivan Koloff On The state Of Affairs In Washington
357 Magnum: No Place For Christians At Bitwarden
EBL: The Punisher, Killed By Cancel Culture, June Brides, Pinup Noir, and Biden Family Values: Deadbeat Dad Hunter Biden and Bad Grandpa Joe Biden
Twitchy: HRC Flames Out With Epically Bad Juneteenth Tweet, Sen. Kennedy Schools Durbin The Turban On Biden Bribery Allegations, and The U.S. Military Is Monitoring Your Tweets, So Be Nice To Gen. Milley Or Else
Louder With Crowder: Anheuser-Busch executive forced to admit Dylan Mulvaney fiasco “has been a wake-up call”, Maryland’s Democrat Governor claims restricting what books are available in school libraries is “castrating” our kids, and LA Dodgers honor anti-Catholic drag nuns in empty stadium as thousands of Catholics patriotically protest outside
Vox Popoli: Of truth and Truth, They TRIED to do That, Vaccines Almost Certainly Cause Autism, and I Do Not Support Free Speech
Stoic Observations: The Great Grand Boss
Gab News: Our Duty To Produce Christian Culture

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Chastity and Lust and Possession
American Conservative: Front Royal on the Front Lines, Leave Trump Alone, Re-Education Camp, and The Dollar at the End of History
American Greatness: Michigan City Bans Display of LGBTQ Flags from City Property, Homeland Committee Chairman: Red China Likely Sending Military Personnel Into U.S, Joe Biden Announces Ambitious Plan to Build a Railroad ‘All the Way Across the Indian Ocean’, and Amazon Shuts Man Out of Own Smart Home After Racism Allegations
American Power: The Radical Strategy Behind Trump’s Promise to ‘Go After’ Biden, Alternative for Germany Party Gains Ground Ahead of Elections, and Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition
American Thinker: The quiet riot against insanity in America is gaining strength, It’s Not Just the FBI – The IRS goes into ‘Beast Mode’, Trump Indictment a Violation of Federal Law, and The FBI is Now a Democrat SuperPAC
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Ungrateful Cubans complain about awful food in hospitals and poor medical care, NBC’s Chuck Todd FURIOUS that those UPPITY Cuban-Americans don’t know their place in the ‘Hispanic’ quarters of the liberal plantation!, Dissent is not tolerated in Cuba, no matter who you are, and China’s decades-long military presence in Cuba goes beyond espionage
BattleSwarm: I’m Really Satisfied With My Maytag MVWP575GW Washer, Federal Court To Biden: “No, You Can’t Have A National Guard Vax Mandate. Not Yours.”, and LinkSwarm for June 16
Behind The Black: NASA official in charge of its manned program denigrates the idea of fixed-price contracts, SpaceX successfully launches Indonesian broadband satellite, Rocket Lab completes first suborbital test launch of its Electron rocket, PLD’s first suborbital test launch aborted just prior to launch, and Pushback: Judge blocks race-based program of Biden administration
Cafe Hayek: Oh, And Naturally He Also Calls for Industrial Policy, Why Do Genius Angels Need Government Power?, and “Shoddy, Shoddy, Shoddy”
CDR Salamander: Build The Yards Now
Chicago Boyz: Enemies of the People, also, Faustian Ambition (updated)
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora, The Democrats are dismantling America’s ballot box and jury box, A Good Investment vs a Bad One, and Is America resembling the French Revolution?
Don Surber: Here’s Your Apology, Guardian
First Street Journal: Crime, like any other cancer, left untreated, metastasizes, also, Molly McGhee and student loan forgiveness
Gates Of Vienna: The Deindustrialization of Germany?, Geert Wilders – Send in the Army if Necessary, Let Them Take the Bus!, Collateral Damage in the Great Replacement, and Russian Sanctions Bingo
The Geller Report: Networks Devote ZERO Seconds to Biden Bombshell of Million Dollar Bribery Phone-Calls, But Run 291 Minutes of Trump Classified (Hoax), NEWLY DISCOVERED: Ukraine Opened Biden Bank Account In Malta For Alleged $10 Million Bribery Payment, and Donald Trump Cannot Get a Top-Tier Lawyer Because of Threats of Legal and Career Reprisals
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Neutron Star Dances with a Black Hole, and Rule Five and Politics
Hollywood In Toto: How Cliffhanger Brought Stallone Back from the Comedy Brink, Hollywood Wouldn’t Cancel Ezra Miller (But Audiences Just Did), and Dominion Is Ready to Rumble with Mainstream Comics
The Lid: WANNABE DICTATOR Controversy: Was This SCATHING Tucker Monologue His Best So Far?, also, Missing My Dad On Father’s Day
Legal Insurrection: Ex-Teammate of Lia Thomas Says UPenn Told Swim Team ‘Don’t Talk to the Media’, Thousands of Catholics and Others Turn Out to Protest L.A. Dodgers’ Honoring of LGBTQ ‘Nun’ Group, Joe Rogan Challenges Vaccine Scientist Peter Hotez to Debate Presidential Candidate RFK Jr., UN Chief Goes on Delusional Tirade Against Fossil Fuels, Saying They Are “Incompatible with Human Survival”, and Sheldon Whitehouse: Dianne Feinstein Should Not Resign No Matter What Because We Need Judges Confirmed
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Second Sunday After Trinity, and The American Way of War
Outkick: Ja Morant Reportedly Believes NBA Is ‘Out To Get’ Him With His 25-Game Suspension, The Athletic, Which Just Had Another Round Of Layoffs, Is Mad That Only 29 Of 30 MLB Teams Host ‘Pride Night’, Bill Walton ‘Shocked’ At The Way Scottie Pippen Talks So Poorly Of Michael Jordan, Awkward! Atlanta Braves DFA Charlie Culberson On Father’s Day Morning With Dad Scheduled To Throw Out First Pitch, Sex Workers In Nevada Offer Free Orgy To Golden Knights Players After Stanley Cup Win, and The Dodgers Lost Tens Of Thousands In Revenue And Embarrassed Themselves To Appease The Far Left
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Illegal Gun Sales Are Now Illegal?, Garland of thorns for MPD [With Comment by John], and Why Our Electric Grid Is Threatened
Shark Tank: Democrat Says DeSantis “Got It Right More Than Anyone” During COVID
Shot In The Dark: Compare & Contrast, Ghastly, and Off Script
STUMP: Other People’s Money: ESG, Public Pensions, and the Principal-Agent Problem
The Political Hat: Children In Academia: Naked Men With Schoolgirls; Sexually Assaulting A Six Year Old; But Muh Capitalism
This Ain’t Hell: When a politician tries to give proper journalism hints to a reporter regarding classified documents, Chinese troops infiltrating through U.S. southern border?, Forest fires! Climate change chaos! We’re DOOMED!!!, and Army Protective Services Battalion Is Watching!
Transterrestrial Musings: Lunacy, The Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Why Did Trump Do It?, and Space-Based Solar Power
Victory Girls: No Gun Free Zones-Texas Leads The Way, Rand Paul Goes Full Pitbull On Fauci, and Vote Joe And Inaugurate Kamala Harris As President
Volokh Conspiracy: Smart Home System = Home System That Amazon Can Mess With If It Doesn’t Like What You Say?, Study Finds Bar Exam Requirements Greatly Reduce the Number of Lawyers, and Restoring the Name of Fort Bragg is Nothing to Brag About
Watts Up With That: German Princess Gloria On Green New Deal: “Going to Be Worse Than Communist East Germany”!, Epic Fail in America’s Heartland: Climate Models Greatly Overestimate Corn Belt Warming, Grid asks factories to use less energy next winter under blackout prevention plan, and ‘The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves’ Should Not Be a Template for Energy Policy
Weasel Zippers: Biden Says U.S. Has “Plans To Build A Railroad From The Pacific…Across The Indian Ocean”, U.S. General Admits She’d Prioritize Gender Surgery Access Over Qualified Officers, Kamala Harris Takes Stage At Juneteenth Celebration, Immediately Starts Laughing Uncontrollably, and 181 House Democrats Vote To BAN Gas Stoves In America
The Federalist: How Did Biden Really Make His Millions? It’s Time For A Special Counsel To Find Out, How Reddit Radicalizes The Left And Encourages Political Violence, Southern Baptists Vote To Remain Faithful To Biblical Teaching, How This Legal Group Plans To Halt Democrats’ Jihad Against Election Integrity Laws Ahead Of 2024, Foul Ball: L.A. Catholics Declare Victory Over The Perpetually Indulged, and From Virginia To Texas, Air Force Throws ‘Pride’ Parties While Our Readiness Crumbles
Mark Steyn: If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be This Week’s Trump Arrest, Sad Sack Sadism, and Hot and Bothered: Elizabeth Taylor, the Production Code and BUtterfield 8

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Rule 5 Sunday: Natalya Neidhart

Posted on | June 19, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Natalya Neidhart

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not to be confused with the Russian tennis player/actress Natalya Nemchinova, even if Bing and Google can’t keep them straight…This Natalya is a third-generation professional wrestler, part of WWE’s Hart Dynasty.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Minnesoda Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: “Fall of Troy”, Elizabeth Schuyler, The Great War of Archimedes, Anime Girl, “You’re A Grand Old Flag”, “Magna Carta”, Nurses Of Normandy, Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful, “Finnegans Wake”, Black Mirror Season Six, MAGA – Mar-A-Lago Indictment, The Punisher Killed By Cancel Culture, and Saturday Night Girls With Guns

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Liza Kovalenko, Fish Pic Friday – Love Leigh, Maryland Oyster Mining to Continue Unabated, Tattoo Thursday, Trump Arraigned, The Wednesday Wetness, Alas, Poor Silvio!, Burisma’s Biden Bribes Recorded? Topless Trans at White House, Shouf, Monday in the Swamp, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For June 16

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Back To Earth

Posted on | June 18, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Back To Earth

— compiled by Wombat-socho

And that’s the way it was. Fresh off a sweep of the Giants at Candlestick, the Senators came home and lost three close games to the Angels at RFK. Coleman and Marichal both took tough losses, and Jim Kaat only gave up four in 8 2/3, but even with Willie Mays coming off the DL the offense just couldn’t make it happen. Well, it was still a .500 week, and we’re only a game behind Oakland, so I’m not complaining too loudly.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“Maybe we should have stayed on the road.” – R. Scheinblum, outfielder

Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden
The DaleyGator
Flopping Aces
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Approaching the Nadir of Wokeness
The DaleyGator
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Road Warriors
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.12.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Chaos in NYPD as Commissioner Resigns
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

Another Day, Another Deadline
The DaleyGator
Flappr
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.14.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘All I Wanted Was a Pepsi’
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Do Ghouls and Witches Count for ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ at Harvard?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 16:

  1.  EBL (12)
  2.  357 Magnum (8)
  3.  A View From The Beach (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Liberals: ‘There Is No Cancel Culture’; Also Liberals: ‘Let’s Cancel This Comic’

Posted on | June 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Liberals: ‘There Is No Cancel Culture’; Also Liberals: ‘Let’s Cancel This Comic’

Marvel Comics now imitates Mao’s Red Guards:

A year ago progressive news outlets were calling the idea of the culture war a “right-wing conspiracy theory” that had no basis in reality. . . .
Why would leftists target something as frivolous as comic book heroes? Because pop-culture is first and foremost a playground where children grow up, and by rewriting heroes as social justice crusaders and communists they hope to indoctrinate the next generation.
However, one hero figure in particular is seen as so egregious and so triggering that leftists want him memory-holed altogether – The Punisher.
The Punisher character (Frank Castle), originally created by writer Gerry Conway in 1974 with artists Ross Andru and John Romita, was a product of a chaotic era; a reaction to the rise of war, stagflation, instability and exploding crime rates in the US. The Punisher’s story is a tragedy of a returning military veteran whose family is killed during what seems to be a gangland hit. With federal agencies doing little to arrest the perpetrators, Castle takes matters into his own hands and begins systematically assassinating the criminals. . . .
The Punisher as an icon has been highly popular among conservatives, military veterans and law enforcement officers in recent years. The trademark skull symbol can be found everywhere, with patches, gear and flags sporting the image, often as a representation of citizens taking matters into their own hands. The symbol was also seen at the January 6th protests.
This has made leftists at Marvel Comics livid. . . .
Marvel writers, including original Punisher creator Gerry Conway, specifically cite the popularity of the character among conservatives as the reason for his virtual elimination. As Newsweek noted, the Punisher was “problematic” for Marvel because conservatives liked him too much. . . .
Much like the Cultural Revolution in China, leftist movements in America are systematically tearing down all opposing beliefs from our cultural catalog, and this includes any positive representations of vigilantism. They openly admit why they are doing it; conservatives aren’t allowed to be the good guys. They aren’t allowed to have heroes.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)



 

 

Category: Culture

The Ontological Error of ‘Gun Violence’

Posted on | June 17, 2023 | Comments Off on The Ontological Error of ‘Gun Violence’

Gloria: “Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?”
Archie Bunker: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?”

That exchange from a 1972 episode of All in the Family always comes to mind when I here politicians and the media discussing “gun violence.” My guns have never perpetrated any violence, and probably your guns are equally innocent, but liberals have a quasi-religious belief that criminals are not responsible for crime. No, it would be wrong to blame the criminals and put them in prison, according to Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors™ in the Democratic Party.

At the root of this mentality is an unwillingness to accept that some people are just bad — irredeemable, a net detriment to society, genetically inferior, social failures, a waste of oxygen. In this, the attitude of liberals toward the criminal class is something akin to the attitude of abused women toward the violent men they love: “I can save him!” Or perhaps we might compare it to Victor Frankenstein who, when the enraged villagers show up, tries to defend the murderous monster he has created. Liberals who lament “mass incarceration” seem willing to ignore the victims of the crimes perpetrated by prison inmates.

Liberals do not want to deal with the reality of recidivism. Most crime is committed by repeat offenders — career criminals who, unless they are put behind bars, will continue perpetrating crime more or less continually. The consequences of the “turn ’em loose” mentality are repeatedly demonstrated in news accounts of murders committed by repeat felons, like 16-year-old Dawnta Harris of Baltimore, who killed a cop by running over her after he was caught during a spree of home invasions. When Harris was arraigned, District Court Judge Sally Chester denied bond and put the teenager in adult jail, telling his lawyer: “In the last six months, no offense, but your client is a one-man crime wave. I’m not certain any juvenile facility is secure enough to hold him.”

Protest marches against “gun violence” are not going to solve the problem, unless the protests are aimed at impeaching Soros-funded “progressive” district attorneys whose turn-’em-loose approach results in dangerous felons roaming the streets of Democrat-controlled cities.

Consider the case of Chicago. One of the tools that police use to “stop gun violence” — because that’s what liberals claim to want, right? — is ShotSpotter, a network of audio sensors that automatically alert police to locations where gunfire happens. Would it surprise you to learn that Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors™ are against this?

In July 2022, the MacArthur Justice Center brought a class action lawsuit against the City of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, and several individual police officers for constitutional violations in connection with the use of ShotSpotter. The lawsuit alleges that more than 90% of the time police respond to a ShotSpotter alert they find no indication of a gun-related incident and instead use the alerts to justify scores of illegal stops and arrests. The lawsuit also alleges that Chicago’s ShotSpotter policy is racially discriminatory because the system was only implemented in areas with the highest concentration of Black and Latino residents.

The “racially discriminatory” location of ShotSpotter sensors might have something to do with THIS IS WHERE ALL THE SHOOTINGS KEEP HAPPENING, but Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors™ don’t care.

Meanwhile, recently-elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “commemorated the milestone [of his first month in office] on Twitter with a thread detailing what he has focused on thus far”:

Notably, there was only one mention of public safety — and it did not even reference a specific policy. This is significant because new data show Mayor Johnson has presided over a 38% crime spike over his first month in office when comparing it to the same period last year.
Vehicle thefts spiked by 153%, aggravated battery is up 17%, burglary jumped by 12%, and even shootings rose 5%. A few weeks ago, carjackings got so bad the Chicago Police Department had to issue a “community alert urging residents to be more vigilant about their surroundings and to always be on the lookout for suspicious activity when entering or leaving vehicles.”

Mayor Willie Wonka is living in “a world of pure imagination”:

Johnson is a man in serious denial bordering on delusion. He says there needs to be a better “characterization” of Chicago’s young people.
“There has been a lot of mischaracterization of our young people in the city of Chicago,” Johnson said. “Do we have individuals who have lived out their pain in the most violent ways? Of course, but the vast majority of our young people need and want opportunity.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) We must note Mayor Johnson’s expression of the long-held liberal belief that criminals are really victims of society, so that murderers can be said to “have lived out their pain in the most violent ways.” Again I think of Repo Man:

Toward the end of the movie, Otto is in a convenience store when one of his punk buddies, Duke, bursts through the door and tries to rob the place.
The store clerk pulls a pistol and fatally shoots Duke. As Duke is bleeding out, Otto goes to comfort him, and hears Duke speak his last words: “I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.”

Some people just can’t deal with reality.



 

 

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