Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas

Posted on | June 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Frank Kelly Freas

One of the great science fiction artists of the late 20th century was Frank Kelly Freas, who usually went by Kelly. and whose artistic talent was matched by being just a really neat and friendly guy. I was blessed by being able to hang around with him at various DC-area SF conventions in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he was always willing to talk about his work, other artists and their work, and to sing the old songs. He’s probably a lot better known for doing the cover to Queen’s News Of The World than any of his SF work. His death in 2005 was a great loss. There were several great illustrations of curvaceous babes that I couldn’t find clean copies of**, but this cover for Anne McCaffrey’s “A Womanly Talent” from the January 1969 Analog is a good example of his work.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Urban Meltdown News, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA – The Fix Is In, Avatar II, The Idol, Call Me Kate, Astrud Gilberto RIP, “The Girl From Ipanema”, “What Am I Eating?” With Zooey Deschanel, and Blue Cheese

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Tiffany Toth, Fish Pic Friday – Saltwater Jackie, A New Trump Indictment Coming?, Thursday Tanlines, Tucker is Back!, The Wednesday Wetness, Contempt for Christopher Wray?, Tattoo Tuesday, Weekend Leftovers, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for June 9th

* A modification of his cover art for “The Gulf Between” by Tom Godwin, published in the October 1953 Astounding.
**i.e. without the text from the book/magazine cover.

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FMJRA 2.0: Road Warriors

Posted on | June 11, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Road Warriors

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD: Weekend Warriors
A good start to the 1971 season for my Senators! Yes, we dropped two of three to the Royals (were Twins) since Dom Carden is a tough and canny manager, but we came back to sweep Pete’s Brewers (were Pilots) at Milwaukee. Se we’re four and two after the first week, half a game in front of the A’s and Twins, with a series coming up against the Giants on Tuesday.
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Fly the Curly W flag!

Death by ‘Mommy Makeover’?
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‘Comprehensive Gun Safety Measures’
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Is the Left Breaking Apart?
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FMJRA 2.0: Das Herz Von Groenland
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Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Scoop Swimsuit Edition!
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‘Our Recreational Drug Use Began About a Year Ago … It Increased Recently.’
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In The Mailbox: 06.05.23
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D-Day: ‘The Blessing of Almighty God’
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In The Mailbox: 06.07.23 (Afternoon Edition)
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What Counts as ‘Hate’?
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Cue the ‘Paw Patrol’ Theme Again
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I’ll Take ‘Symptomatic Evidence of Demonic Possession’ for $400, Alex
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BREAKING: Trump Indicted
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In The Mailbox: 06.08.23
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‘Other Unruly Acts’ in Killadelphia
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Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman
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In The Mailbox: 06.09.23
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No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler

Posted on | June 11, 2023 | Comments Off on No Heroes for You, Whitey: Albany, N.Y., Has ‘Cancelled’ Gen. Philip Schuyler

Decades have now passed since left-wing activists started a ruckus about the Confederate flag that had long flown over the South Carolina statehouse. It occurred to me at the time that, if the flag couldn’t be flown there — where the South Carolina convention had voted to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war — then it must eventually be banned everywhere, and once all the Confederate flags were gone, then what? Such movements do not simply stop once their initial demand has been granted; every concession to such radicals will only incite them to make new demands. It’s like Hitler — give him the Sudetenland today, and he’ll take the rest of Czechoslovakia a few months later, then invade Poland next year. Appeasement is never successful when dealing with totalitarian aggressors, and perhaps you don’t wish to think of the advocates of “civil rights” as totalitarians, but do we invoke Godwin’s Law if we notice how, just like Hitler, they can never be appeased?

At any rate, when the quarrel over the flag in South Carolina first started making national headlines, several defenders of Southern heritage prophesied that anyone who imagined that the demands would stop with Confederate symbols was sadly deluded. Those prophecies have been amply vindicated in recent years, especially during the George Floyd BLM/Antifa riots of 2020, which saw the toppling or desecration of statues coast to coast. Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Junipero Serra — the iconoclastic mob attacked monuments to all kinds of historic figures who never had anything to do with the Confederacy. And now, they’ve come for Revolutionary War heroes:

The statue of General Philip Schuyler that stood in front of Albany City Hall for nearly a century is gone. The city moved it to storage early Saturday morning—which was about much more than what first meets the eye.
“We’re happy that the statue has finally come down,” said Dr. Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice. “I don’t know what they’re going to do with it, but at least it’s not in a public space.”
Green has been pushing city leaders to take down the statue for years. She said it was a constant reminder of what General Schuyler did to her ancestors.
“He robbed them of their humanity, their dignity, and their labor,” said Green. “Labor that brought him money.”

We shall get to the matter of Doctor Green and her ancestors momentarily, but first let us address the question: Who was Philip Schuyler and why was he honored in Albany, New York?

Philip John Schuyler was born on November 20, 1733, in Albany, New York, to Cornelia Van Cortlandt (1698–1762) and Johannes (“John”) Schuyler Jr. (1697–1741), the third generation of the Dutch Schuyler family in America. His maternal grandfather was Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the 17th Mayor of New York City. . . .
[I]n 1755 during the French and Indian War, [Schuyler] raised a provincial company, and was commissioned as its captain by his cousin, Lieutenant Governor James Delancey. In 1756, he accompanied British officer Colonel John Bradstreet to Oswego, where he gained experience as a quartermaster, which ended when the outpost fell to the French. Schuyler took part in the battles of Lake George, Oswego River, Carillon and Fort Frontenac. . . .
Schuyler became colonel and commander of a militia district regiment in 1767. In 1768, he served as a member of the New York Assembly.
Schuyler was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and served until he was appointed a major general of the Continental Army in June. General Schuyler took command of the Northern Department and planned the Invasion of Quebec. . . .

Schuyler was blamed for the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, but was vindicated by a court martial, and played a key role in the American victory at Saratoga, where British General Burgoyne’s entire army was captured, and thus persuaded France to officially enter the War on the American side. The site of the battle is now called Schuylerville, which ought to convince anyone of how highly esteemed the general and his family were in upstate New York. Speaking of General Schuyler’s family, his kinship to the Van Cortlandt and Delancey families has already been noted, and he married a daughter of the Van Rensselaer family, who were arguably the most prominent of the Old Dutch settlers of New York. His wife was also a cousin of the Livingstons of New Jersey, so that the couple’s numerous children were connected to some of the most illustrious families in the American colonies. Their second-oldest daughter, Elizabeth Schuyler, married a young military officer.

You may have heard of him, or seen his picture on a $10 bill.

Despite his subsequent accomplishments, in his wedding to Philip Schuyler’s daughter, Alexander Hamilton very much married up, considering the prominence of both sides of her family. As further proof of how highly Philip Schuyler was esteemed:

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1780 to 1784, and at the same time New York State Surveyor General from 1781 to 1784. Afterwards he returned to the State Senate from 1786 to 1790, where he actively supported the adoption of the United States Constitution.
In 1789, he was elected a U.S. Senator from New York to the First United States Congress, serving from July 27, 1789, to March 3, 1791. After losing his bid for re-election in 1791 to Aaron Burr, he returned to the State Senate from 1792 to 1797. In 1797, he was selected again to the U.S. Senate and served in the 5th United States Congress from March 4, 1797, until his resignation because of ill health on January 3, 1798.

This was why the citizens of Albany were once proud to erect a public statue honoring their native son, and as for how and why it was decided to dishonor Schuyler, well, the 1790 Census found 21,193 slaves in the state of New York, of which 3,722 were in Albany County, “the most of any county in the state at the time.” The Dutch patroons who settled the Hudson River valley were substantially reliant on slave labor and, the 1790 census showed, Philip Schuyler “owned 13 slaves at his South End mansion in 1790 and another four slaves worked on his farm in Saratoga County.” To which any sensible person might respond, “And . . . ?”

In historical context, there is nothing remarkable or controversial about Schuyler’s status as a slaveowner. If one studies slavery from a global and historical perspective, the idea of a transtemporal collective grievance — an idea Thomas Sowell addresses in The Quest for Cosmic Justice — is simply absurd. To carry around permanent grudges over the practices of antiquity is a foolish posture. Believing ourselves to be the beneficiaries of progress, ought we not rather be grateful for that progress than to spend our time endlessly rehearsing a vengeful script about how oppressed our ancestors might have been? What possible benefit do black people in Albany, New York, derive from dishonoring Philip Schuyler? How does removing his statue make their lives better? And what did General Schuyler have to do with George Floyd’s death?

Our main story from this morning – Protest turns violent as demonstrators clash with Albany Police https://t.co/I4eWaBCm2y From our @pmdemola pic.twitter.com/YaY9wznKYu

— Daily Gazette (@dgazette) May 31, 2020

Police: Arrest made in officer’s injury at Albany violent protest; Curfew extended for Sunday night https://t.co/3Qzm4owCEo pic.twitter.com/IbdAEBVPhW

— Daily Gazette (@dgazette) May 31, 2020

There were riots in Albany in the summer of 2020, and the city’s liberal mayor decided now was the time for an empty and futile gesture:

Mayor Kathy Sheehan has ordered city workers to remove the statue honoring Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler from in front of City Hall. . . .
“Scores of community members have reached out to my office requesting the removal of the statue of former slave owner Gen. Philip Schuyler and I thank those residents for making their voices heard,” she said in a statement.
The statue will not come down immediately. Sheehan’s executive order directs the Department of General Services to take steps to remove the statue as soon as possible, including an engineering study to determine the statue’s structural integrity. The statue will not be destroyed, instead it will go toward a museum or other institution, according to a news release.
City Auditor Dorcey Applyrs said the statue’s removal doesn’t eliminate any institutionalized racism but it a symbolic acknowledgement by the city that slavery was wrong.
‘The removal of this statue also acknowledges the horrific and negative implications of slavery and its impact on the lives of black Americans in the city of Albany every day,” she said.

The one thing missing from this? Logic. How is it that the death of George Floyd (in Minnesota, where slavery was never legal) should cause riots in Albany, New York, thus requiring removal of the statue of a Revolutionary War general who has been dead more than 200 years? Whence the need for “symbolic acknowledgement” of the “horrific . . . implications of slavery” in upstate New York? One might wonder why “scores of community members” would have “reached out” to the mayor, but their motive is irrelevant to the real question, i.e., exactly how do these “community members” benefit from the statue’s removal? The rhetoric about slavery’s “impact on the lives of black Americans in the city of Albany every day” seems to imply some logical connection between the statue and the aforesaid “impact,” but I’ll be darned if I can figure out what that connection might be. Imagine yourself presented with a choice: Would you like a nice cold beer? Or would you instead prefer “symbolic acknowledgement” of some injustice that your remote ancestors may have experienced 200 years ago? Give me that cold beer, pal.

What seems to be going on in this kind of “social justice” transaction — the unspoken implication of the “symbolic acknowledgement” — is that (a) the condition of black people in 21st-century America is presumed to be one of misery and hardship, which (b) is so deep and pervasive as to require a Grand Unifying Theory of Oppression to explain it, and therefore (c) The Horrific Implications of Slavery are summoned forth as the ultimate cause of black misery, and thus (d) tear down that statue!

One might write 10,000 words explaining what’s wrong with this line of thought, but why bother? It’s not about logic, it’s about feelings — irrational sentiments which are immune to argument. And now, as promised earlier, we return to Doctor Green who, since the mid-1980s, has been working her social-justice hustle through the tax-exempt nonprofit Center for Law and Justice.

Doctor Green has “several degrees from SUNY Albany . . . [which] include a bachelor’s in African-American studies, master’s degrees in education, social welfare and criminal justice, and a doctorate in criminal justice.” According to WTEN-TV, Doctor Green viewed the statue at City Hall as “a constant reminder of what General Schuyler did to her ancestors.”

Except he had nothing to do with her ancestors. Doctor Green was born in South Carolina. Her family later moved to upstate New York. So whoever enslaved Doctor Green’s ancestors, it wasn’t General Schuyler.

Facts, logic — these are the weapons of white supremacy! Whereas social justice relies on “symbolic acknowledgement,” but speaking for myself, I’d still rather have a cold beer. Perhaps you feel the same.

Category: History, New York, Racism

Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden

Posted on | June 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Five — Count ’Em, FIVE — Flaming Skulls for FBI Whistleblower Report on Biden

Ace of Spades believes this is a report of extreme urgency, and therefore awarded the story one flaming skull alert for each of the five million dollars allegedly paid to then-Vice President Joe Biden by a member of the Burisma board. And by “member of the Burisma board,” of course I mean, corrupt Ukrainian oligarch. As I reported last week, this involved the congressional subpoena of an FD-1023 form recounting the FBI’s interview with a “confidential human source.” FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to comply with the subpoena by claiming that information in the form would compromise the source. Given the events of Thursday, however, we may conclude that Wray was stalling for time so that Special Counsel Jack Smith could indict Trump, thereby “burying” news of the revelations about Biden’s corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

Am I a conspiracy theorist for suggesting this? It doesn’t matter. The loss of credibility of the Deep State regime — which is their fault, not mine — predictably gives rise to paranoia, as the citizens witness the blatant double standards: Antifa rioters walk free without prosecution, while hundreds of pro-Trump protesters are sentenced to federal prison. Similarly, the Biden family’s corruption is covered up by the FBI and the DOJ, while a Special Counsel is appointed to prosecute Trump for a case which basically originated with some minor bureaucrat at the National Archives complaining about White House documents and thus triggering a massive FBI raid on Mar a Lago. Just like the election results in 2020 (which you’re a TRAITOR for doubting), all of this reeks to high heaven, yet we are powerless to do anything about it. If people don’t trust their government, don’t blame the people, blame the government.

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 06.09.23

Posted on | June 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Pat Robertson, RIP, $5 MILLION BRIBE TO “BIG GUY” BIDEN BY BURISMA?, TRUMP INDICTED OVER MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS, and Who Destroyed The Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine?
Twitchy: Unsealed Trump Indictment Paints A Very Disturbing Picture, Mollie Hemingway Wallops Mitt & Senate GOP For Greasing The Skids For US Slide Into The Abyss, and Activision Drops Hammer On CoD Gamer For Undermining Pride By Wanting To Protect Kids
Louder With Crowder: Johnny Depp’s telling Disney where to stick their new “Pirates” movie after throwing him under the bus over Amber Heard, Mike Pence ends his presidential campaign before it fails on its own after lame Ukraine comment, and Democrat governor VETOES bill that would have banned teachers from filming porn in their classrooms
Vox Popoli: Why the Media Hated the Pick-Up Artists, Academics, WSJ Confirm Pizzagate, Hell on Earth 2023, Syrian Refugee Stabbings, An Amusing Exchange, and Marvel Kills The Punisher
According To Hoyt: Cultural legacy, Fast Futures, and The War On Humans
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 Ep22: Lessons From the Gun Range, also, June Update Post
Stoic Observations: The Old School

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Club Satan™
American Conservative: Vedantic Realpolitik, also, Mind the Stoics
American Greatness: Former President Donald Trump Charged in Classified Documents Probe, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem No Help to Over 80 Landowners Facing Eminent Domain Property Loss for Carbon Capture Pipeline, and FBI Informant: Biden Paid $5 Million by Burisma Executive as Vice President
American Thinker: A Government at War with Its People, RNC Canvassing Lists: The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and Call Them What They Truly Are: The Fascist Far Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Little Green Men News, also, Rule Five Urban Meltdown News
Babalu Blog: Univision’s Jorge Ramos blasts AMLO and Lula for supporting socialist dictators in Cuba and Venezuela, China’s spy base in Cuba just one of the Castro dictatorship’s many collaborations with America’s enemies, and You can’t ‘Perestroika’ CNN
BattleSwarm: Problem: Some Harris County Voters Dare To Vote Republican. Solution: Deny Them Ballots, Looks Like The Ukrainian Counteroffensive Has Officially Begun, and LinkSwarm for June 9
Behind The Black: Boeing sued for stealing specialized tooling to assembly SLS, Red China’s Kuaizhou-1A solid-fueled rocket launches satellite, Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA contracts for six launches each, Study: Long periods of weightlessness cause changes in the brain, and Pushback: Racial quotas on corporate boards, imposed by California Democrats, struck down by court
Cafe Hayek: More on the Absurdity of Price Controls, Price Controls Are Not Justified by Monopoly Power, Vernon Smith On Price Controls, and Price Controls Are Government-Mandated False Advertising
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: I Remember, I Remember, also, Harvard–A View From 1835
Da Tech Guy: Bud Light and the Jon Sable Rule, The Biden Regime is planning on placing all aspects of life under direct federal control to fight the plague of loneliness, and Why is Anyone Surprised?
Dana Loesch: Newest Trump Indictment Unsealed
Don Surber: Don’t Use Their Language, also, Trump Indicted – Not Hillary, Hunter, Or Milley
First Street Journal: The left really despise Freedom of Speech
Gates Of Vienna: Illegal Immigrant Canadian Smoke, Syrian Culture-Enricher Greets Children With a Knife, Everybody Has to Take Their Share, Stop Mutilating the Kids!, Blacklisting the Truth, and Biden Elevating Islam at the Expense of Christians and Jews
The Geller Report: HIJACKED REPUBLIC: President Trump Indicted (AGAIN) in Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Hoax
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Spanish Dancer, If You Believe This, You May Want to Buy This Bridge I’m Selling, and Improved Resolution
Hollywood In Toto: Film Preservation Groups Silent on French Connection Censorship, Is Mel Gibson Producing a Docuseries on Child Sex Trafficking?, and Super Silly ‘Flash’ Not Worth the Drama
The Lid: Despite Past Denials, Biden Admin. Now Looking to Take Away America’s Gas Stoves and Furnaces
Legal Insurrection: Massive Canadian Wildfires Engulfing U.S. East Coast in Haze Were Sparked by Environmental Activism, Washington Women-Only Naked Spa Forced to Accept Pre-Op Trans Customers, Majority of Princeton Students in Survey Say it’s Sometimes ‘Acceptable to Shout Down a Speaker’, Oregon State U. Allegedly Welcomed Children to Drag Show Featuring ‘Extreme’ Nudity, Federal Railroad Agency Will Conduct Safety Review of All Major Railroads, and Trump May Have Handed The Feds What They’ve Spent Seven Years Seeking – A Prosecutable Charge
Nebraska Energy Observer: O say does…, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Got What He Deserved? Pete Alonso Talked Smack, Got Hit, Now Headed To IL, Deion Sanders Brutally Buries Pat Narduzzi: ‘Don’t Know Who He Is’, Angels In The Outfield? Priest Blesses Stadium Ahead Of Super Regional Battle Between Southern Miss, Tennessee, Oklahoma Softball Players Tell ESPN The Real Source Of Joy Is Religion, Stephen A. Smith Offers Awful Opinion About Nikola Jokic’s Post-Up Game, Immediately Gets Called Out, and Big 12 Launches ‘Big 12 Mexico’ As Conference Will Start With Basketball In 2024, Football Bowl Game In The Works
Power Line: Twitter Files updates, Thoughts from the ammo line, Why is this man laughing?, and The Daily Chart: Smoke Gets in Your Panels
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Against Civil Rights, also, It’s Pride Month! You Must Celebrate The Transes & The Furry Kingdom!
Shark Tank: Bilirakis Moves To Crack Down On Contraband Phones In Prison
Shot In The Dark: There Is No Target But Target, Not For Turning, De-Evolution, and A Simple Proposition
STUMP: U.S. Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths: Seasonal Patterns and June 2023 Update, also, Public Finance Spotlight: Truth in Accounting
The Political Hat: Crazy California: Reparations; Snitching On Haters; Escaping The Hellhole, also, Firing Line Friday: How to Speak, How to Listen
This Ain’t Hell: Unknown American soldier, alone more than 100 years, is finally buried with his brothers, Disgruntled Group Protest Plea Deal in Stolen Valor Case, Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Precious Metals from VA Dental Clinic, Valor Friday, and West Point Cadet PTSD Case Ruled to be Stolen Valor and Fraud
Transterrestrial Musings: The Coming Summer Blackouts
Victory Girls: Linda Sarsour Brings Anti-Semitism To Kentucky Gubernatorial Race, also, Seattle Ice Cream Shop Supports CHOP But Sues For Lost Revenue
Volokh Conspiracy: Argument Against Sanctions for Lawyer’s Filing of Motion That Contained AI-Hallucinated Cases, also, Justice Thomas’s Dissent in Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County v. Talevski
Watts Up With That: The Federal War Against Your Lifestyle, If It’s Not Open Warfare, It’s Collusive Lawfare, and “Green” Energy Threatens South Korea’s Economy
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Uses Canadian Wildfires To Push Her Green New Deal, Hakeem Jeffries Claims Far-Left House Dems Are “Team Reasonable,” “Team Normal”, and WH Attempts To Claim Biden “Has Taken Action To Deal With The Crime” In Big Cities, Fails Miserably
The Federalist: China’s Amped-Up Aggression Shows Biden’s Détente Approach Won’t Work, Pride Month Zealots Launch Economic Warfare On Homesteading Catholic Family, Report: Biden Is Coordinating With ACLU, Other Left-Wing Groups To Interfere In Elections, Time For House GOP To Drop Everything And Target Merrick Garland, New ‘Twitter Files’ Installment Shows The FBI Censoring Journalists For Being Skeptical About Ukraine, and The DOJ’s Election Interference Is Worse Than Anything The Russians Ever Did
Mark Steyn: One-offs, Coincidences, and Trend, Live Around the Planet: Friday June 9th, and It’s Not a Joke, Mansour!

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Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

Posted on | June 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

As everyone knows, transphobic racist Republicans are constantly terrorizing LGBTQ people of color in cities like Atlanta:

Atlanta police on high alert after 2 Black trans women shot to death a week apart
April 21, 2023
ATLANTA — Police are working to determine if the murders of two Black transgender metro Atlanta women a week apart are hate crimes.
Friends and family shared photos of Koko Williams and Ashley Burton, who were both shot and killed earlier this month.
Williams, 35, was shot to death on MLK on Tuesday night. . . .
Koko’s murder marks the second in just a week involving Black transgender women.
Last Tuesday, friends said 37-year-old Ashley Burton was shot and killed outside of an apartment complex on Fairburn Road.
Activist Stasha Sanchez said Black trans women are being targeted.
“We’re some really strong people,” Sanchez said. “But we’re also always targeted, and I think that is something that is very important for the world to know that. You don’t have to target us.”
In a statement, Atlanta police said they’re investigating a third shooting that critically injured a Black transgender woman in January on Highland Ave.

Yes, black trans women are always “targeted” on Highland Avenue, Fairburn Road and MLK Boulevard in Atlanta, and if you know anything about the city, of course, these are the exact locations where you’d expect to find right-wing transphobic Trump voters.

The Human Rights Campaign sent out this press release in April:

HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Ashley Burton, a 37-year-old Black transgender woman, who was killed in Atlanta, Georgia on April 11, 2023. Ashley’s death is at least the ninth violent killing of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2023, and the second death to occur in Georgia since the start of 2023. We say “at least” because too often these deaths go unreported — or misreported. . . .
More than 25,000 hate crimes in the U.S. involve a firearm each year, which equates to almost 70 cases each day, according to a 2022 report from Everytown for Gun Safety in partnership with HRC and The Equality Federation . . . The report also notes a marked increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes, especially against transgender people. HRC’s own tracking of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people found that between 2013 and 2022, more than two-thirds of all recorded fatalities against transgender and gender non-conforming people involved a firearm — including over three-quarters of all reported fatalities in 2022. . . .
It is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color, especially Black transgender women.

You might get the impression from reading this that the death of Ashley Burton was obviously a “hate crime,” of which we are assured that “almost 70 cases a day” involve firearms. But with the Atlanta police on “high alert,” this killer of transgender women of color — who was probably an NRA member, and possibly even associated with a dangerous hate group like Moms for Liberty — was certain to be caught eventually. And this week, the APD apprehended the suspect:

Accused murderer Darius Mills, 31

Convicted felon charged with murder of Atlanta hairstylist
ATLANTA – A suspect is in custody facing murder charges for the shooting of an Atlanta hairstylist in a southwest Atlanta apartment.
Atlanta police found 37-year-old Ashley Burton dead outside in a breezeway at The Elite at City Park apartments on the 400 block of Fairburn Road on the morning of April 11.
Investigators believe Burton was shot inside one other apartments and went door-to-door for help in her complex before she succumbed to a gunshot wound.
On Monday, officials say they secured warrants for 31-year-old Darius Mills in connection with Burton’s murder.
Mills, who is currently in custody at the Fulton County Jail for an unrelated incident, now faces charges of murder, armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
While Burton was a transgender woman, police have not said if her gender identity had any connection with violence perpetuated against her. . . .
Authorities have not provided a possible motive for the crime.

“Possible motive”? The motive is obvious — TRUMP!

This guy was clearly a right-wing Republican, just like those guys in MAGA hats who attacked Jussie Smollett in Chicago.

Category: Crime, Racism, The Transgender Cult

‘Other Unruly Acts’ in Killadelphia

Posted on | June 9, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Other Unruly Acts’ in Killadelphia

SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) is the public transportation system in Philadelphia and the resemblance of the acronym to septic is merely coincidental, but given the unhealthy conditions on SEPTA trains and buses — reeking of urine, etc. — it is an appropriate coincidence. In addition to the homeless drug addicts who plague the SEPTA system, there’s also the hazard of occasional gunfire. Police in Philadelphia are still seeking a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old high school student on a SEPTA bus last month, an incident which should not be confused with the fatal shooting on a 14-year-old student on a SEPTA train platform last month.

Dana Pico asks: “As cities lose control of crime, how can anyone view public transportation as a solution to anything?” And of course, the answer is — liberalism, which causes people to view all kinds of things in an irrational way. Dana fisks a lengthy article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the spiraling chaos afflicting the SEPTA system.

If there is a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in the use of euphemism, the Inquirer is making a strong bid to win it.

Recent high-profile shootings in and around SEPTA stations in Philadelphia reflect an alarming increase in violence . . .
However, the types of crime passengers are most likely to encounter on SEPTA are smoking, turnstile-jumping, public urination, and other unruly acts. SEPTA is struggling to manage the incidents.
These are not violent crimes but antisocial behaviors that make many people feel unsafe on the subway and El lines, according to interviews with multiple riders.

You see? It’s not really dangerous to ride on a train with criminals and dopeheads, the Inquirer wants its readers to believe. No, the problem is not the “unruly acts,” but rather that “many people feel unsafe.”

The Inquirer is engaged in promoting the idea that the real problem is not the “antisocial behaviors,” but rather the feelings of “many people” about SEPTA. And never mind those teenagers getting shot to death.

“People experiencing homelessness” is one of the artful euphemisms in the Inquirer article, and you can read the whole thing and find your favorite evasive phrases, but how about this social-justice sermon?

The social problems plaguing SEPTA and other transit agencies raise hard questions about justice and equity in a nation whose institutions have proved unable or unwilling to spend the vast sums that would be required to make serious progress against housing insecurity, emotional and mental health issues, and substance-abuse disorders.

Oh, we could “make serious progress” against these “social problems,” if only we were willing and able to “spend the vast sums”! So your teenager got shot on the bus, and there’s a junkie nodding off on the train in a puddle of his own urine, and why? Because you’re a cheapskate, who doesn’t want to spend “vast sums . . to make serious progress.”

Liberals may actually believe nonsense like that, but why must the rest of us be forced to live with the consequences of their folly?