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Louisville Bank Shooter: Trump-Hater Livestreamed His Murder Spree

Posted on | April 10, 2023 | 2 Comments

Today I was trying to get together my tax forms while the news was breaking about the shooting at a bank in Louisville and, as usual when such incidents happen, was wondering: “One of ours or one of theirs?” While most mass shootings have no real political angle, everybody has become accustomed to the blame game surrounding such incidents, and my hunch (once it was reported that the target was a bank) was this had to be one of theirs, because Republicans generally like banks.

We don’t know the motive yet, but . . .

The suspect in a Monday morning massacre at a Louisville bank has been identified as a 23-year-old former varsity hoops star and finance grad-turned-banker who livestreamed the horrific attack.
Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel identified the suspect as Connor Sturgeon, who worked at Old National Bank’s downtown Louisville branch.
Gwinn-Villaroel said Sturgeon was livestreaming as he opened fire at about 8:38 a.m. in the Old National Bank Building, which houses the bank and a variety of other businesses, killing four people and injuring nine more, including two police officers. Sturgeon was killed after exchanging gunfire with officers, she said, but it’s unclear if he was killed by police or by self-inflicted gunshots. . . .
Two now-defunct Twitter accounts that appear to belong to Sturgeon included tagged photos of him on the athletics track and the basketball court as a 6’5’’ junior on Floyd Central’s basketball team. More recently, he hosted a basketball-focused podcast with two buddies and tweeted about the NBA in between posts in support of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, as well as some criticism of police violence and of then-President Donald Trump.
Citing sources, local network WAVE3 reported that Sturgeon was fired from Old National Bank last week.

Sturgeon’s friends say he suffered multiple concussions while playing sports, and wondered if that might have had something to do with his descent into murderous madness. And speaking of mentally damaged people, Joe Biden quickly issued a statement:

How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It’s long past time that we require safe storage of firearms. Require background checks for all gun sales. Eliminate gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability. We can and must do these things now.
A strong majority of Americans want lawmakers to act on commonsense gun safety reforms. Instead, from Florida to North Carolina to the U.S. House of Representatives, we’ve watched Republican officials double down on dangerous bills that make our schools, places of worship, and communities less safe. It’s unconscionable, it’s reckless, and too many Americans are paying with their lives.

You see how this works? Regardless of the fact that the killer was clearly a Democrat, still Joe Biden must always blame Republicans.



 

 

Category: Crime, Kentucky

Rule 5 Sunday: Elena Santarelli

Posted on | April 10, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Originally spotted on the r/ToplessInJeans subreddit (NSFW), Elena is an Italian model, TV peronality, and actress.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2042, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Gun-Free Zone Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: MAGA Loomer (In or Out?), Frankie Avalon, Exodus: Gods & Kings, Yvonne DeCarlo, Abba, Debra Paget, Alexander Nevsky, Rabbit Hole, Babylon, Sanna Marin Loses, and The Vikings. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Christian Serratos, Like We Have a Choice, Fish Pic Friday – Fish Huntress Amy, Thursday Tanlines, Some Wednesday Wetness, Flotsam and Jetsam – Today’s The Day, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

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FMJRA 2.0: Crazy Nietsche – Der Freie Geist

Posted on | April 10, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Crazy Nietsche – Der Freie Geist

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.

Rule 5 Sunday: Sanna Marin
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Chicago Votes for More Crime
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Escaping the School Trap
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Adult Film Actress’
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

What Joe Biden Wants
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

Brain-Damaged John Fetterman Gets ‘Democrat Helper’ Served by CBS News
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

#WaxMyBalls Update
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.03.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Making History (Not in a Good Way)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.04.23
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.05.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.06.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

NY Prosecutor: ‘We Know Incarceration Doesn’t Really Solve Any Problems’
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Teen Psycho Tranny Arrested After Planning Mass Murder at Colorado Middle School
357 Magnum
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.07.23
357 Magnum
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EBL

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Disaggregating Data on ‘Gun Violence’

Posted on | April 9, 2023 | 1 Comment

One of the things that liberals love to do is to discuss trends without examining the relevant context. Suppose we’re talking about childhood poverty, and the liberal wishes you to be concerned about an increase in this problem. Would it be helpful to know how the data are different between, say, single-parent households and married-parent households? Or how would the data look if we broke it down by race, or by immigration status of the parents? Isn’t it likely that some significant part of the trend in childhood poverty is caused by an enormous influx of impoverished Latin American immigrants, many of them here illegally? Yet even among immigrants, aren’t children less likely to grow up in poverty if they’re living in a two-parent married family household?

On this issue, as on so many other issues, you cannot understand what’s happening and why it’s happening if you do not disaggregate the data, breaking it down by demographic categories. A remarkable example of this was provided by Steve Sailer on the recent increase in homicide among teenagers:

This is absolutely breathtaking. Despite the fact that blacks are 14% of the U.S. population, they accounted for seven times as many teenagers killed by gun violence in 2021, and nearly all of the increase in homicides in the 15-19 age group between 2019 and 2021. Sailer was able to extract this information from the CDC database, and perhaps others (including Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell) could have done the same thing, if they had tried, but of course, they didn’t try. Because they don’t care. They just want to scare people with a number about a trend, without providing the context necessary to understand the trend.



 

 

Category: Crime, Media Bias

Obscure Online ‘Celebrities’ and the Fragmentation of Popular Culture

Posted on | April 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Obscure Online ‘Celebrities’ and the Fragmentation of Popular Culture

Chris and Katie Tyson, at their 2018 wedding

Once upon a time (he says, as if speaking of a distant and possibly mythical past) there were three major national TV networks, which was where practically all “famous” people were seen. During the 1980s, the proliferation of cable TV channels began to change this equation, and one of the responses to the challenge of cable — which cut into the audience and advertising revenue of the “Big Three” networks — was the rise of “reality TV” series. Survivor made its debut in 2000 on CBS, and The Bachelor premiered on ABC in 2002. The people who appeared on such programs became regarded as “celebrities,” as they were seen by audiences numbered in the millions, but these audiences were mere fractions of the population, much smaller proportionately than the viewership of the Big Three networks in earlier decades.

If you went back to the early 1970s, 20 million people routinely tuned in for Monday Night Football which meant that, in a nation of 200 million, fully a tenth of the population was watching Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and “Dandy Don” Meredith. Thirty years later, although The Bachelor was considered a huge hit, its average audience was less than 10 million, in a nation of more than 300 million, meaning it was watched by only about 3% of the population. And this trend of audience fragmentation has only accelerated with the rise of social media. There are now YouTubers with audiences larger than many cable-TV programs (e.g., most of CNN’s lineup) and yet if you’re not a fan, you’ve probably never heard of these so-called celebrities, like “Mr. Beast.”

Jimmy Donaldson, 24, has more than 140 million YouTube subscribers on his MrBeast channel. He launched his channel while still in middle school in North Carolina and by 2021 reportedly was earning more than $50 million a year. Obviously, this makes him far more popular than, say, CNN’s Don Lemon, but I’d never heard of “Mr. Beast” before, and probably most of my readers hadn’t, either, because we’re grown-ups and don’t have time to watch the sort of silly stunts that constitute most of this YouTuber’s content. The astonishing success of “Mr. Beast,” however, enabled Donaldson to hire a lot of his hometown buddies to help him produce content, and among these buddies was Chris Tyson.

Tyson is now a YouTube “celebrity” in his own right. Three years ago, a few months after his wife Katie gave birth to their son Tucker, Chris “came out” as bisexual. He and Katie subsequently divorced, and now Chris Tyson has apparently decided that he is really a “she”:

Chris Tyson, A popular content creator who frequently appears on YouTuber MrBeast’s channel, revealed on Twitter today that they are taking hormone replacement therapy.
“HRT, and it’s only been 2 months,” Tyson posted on Twitter, quote-tweeting a MrBeast fan who shared a screengrab of them in the YouTuber’s most recent video, commenting on their changed appearance.
In a follow-up tweet on their alt account, Tyson, who says on Twitter they go by any pronouns, clarified their stance on gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy, quote-tweeting a fan who suggested Republicans are trying to “erase the trans community.”
“Informed consent HRT saved my and many others’ lives,” Tyson wrote. “The hurdles gnc [gender non-conforming] people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.”
A longtime friend of MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, from childhood, Tyson appeared in many of Donaldson’s earlier videos, including one where they wrap the YouTuber in 100 layers of Saran wrap. Tyson has since become a permanent fixture on Donaldson’s channel, along with a slew of Donaldson’s childhood friends, many of whom have carved out their own careers as popular content creators.

Well, that’s weird. Why is Rolling Stone using “they/them” pronouns for Tyson, even though Tyson himself hasn’t demanded such treatment? Beyond that, however, why would a guy throw away what seemed to be a happy marriage in order to pursue such bizarre adventures in gender confusion? And what does it mean that this person is an influential “celebrity,” despite the fact that most grown-ups had no clue that he even existed? But then again, never mind me, I’m a guy so old that I remember when MTV played music videos. Talk about your ancient history . . .



 

 

Category: Celebrities, Culture

Magna Carta and Alvin Bragg

Posted on | April 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

King John signs Magna Carta, 1215

“The failure of our education system to teach America’s young people their own history,” I wrote nearly four years ago, “is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that almost no one under 40 today knows anything about Sam Adams except as a popular brand of beer.” And many have suspected that this historical ignorance is not accidental, but rather that the dumbing-down of American education serves a specific political agenda, as those who are conscious of the pedigree of their liberty are apt to be more zealous in defense of their rights. Our liberties were “purchased . . . with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood,” Sam Adams declared in 1771, and thus Americans should never allow themselves to be cheated out of their inheritance.

By the time of our War of Independence, Englishmen had been fighting to establish and defend their rights for more than 500 years, dating back at least as far as Runnymede in 1215, and even further back to Henry I’s Charter of Liberties in 1100. The right to trial by jury, an institution originally unique to the English, is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Americans are prone to take this inheritance for granted, along with all the other rights specified in the Bill of Rights, including those summarized in the Fifth Amendment by the phrase “due process of law.”

The writer known as “Wolf Howling” observes:

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump is a Constitutional obscenity. Bragg has crafted an indictment that denies Trump his most fundamental constitutional right, to know the criminal charges against him. That is a right with a 1,000 year old pedigree in English and American law.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.) The lowliest thief incarcerated at Riker’s Island cannot be denied such rights, and what Bragg has done in framing this indictment of Trump is an insult to every American, an attempt to defraud them of their ancient liberties, purchased by “toil and danger” and bequeathed to us as an inheritance. However ignorant Alvin Bragg may be, we cannot suppose that he is violating these rights accidentally, and thus he must be considered an enemy of justice, deliberately seeking to destroy liberty. That the voters of New York City elected Bragg to this office, and apparently support him in his unconstitutional actions, says a lot about the nature of “democracy” in 21st-century America. People need to wake up to the danger.



 

 

Category: Constitution, Donald Trump, History

In The Mailbox: 04.07.23

Posted on | April 8, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, ‘Surely this man was the Son of God!’”
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

A re-enactment of the Crucifixion in the Philippines

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: You Are Not Protected By Your Zipcode
EBL: Good Friday, also, Exodus: Gods And Kings
Twitchy: Gov. Hairgel’s Attempted Slam On “Red Murder States” Is All Fail, Obama Lecturing TN Republicans About “Silencing Those They Disagree With” Goes Badly Wrong, and Miami Herald’s “Journalism” Gets The Community Notes Treatment It Was Begging For
Louder With Crowder: Super Mario Bros. star Chris Pratt prepares for Easter as only he can, Tim Pool compares Dylan Mulvaney to Elsa eating feces and he makes a good point, and “Easter Bunny” saves woman from assault as he pummels some dude in the street
Vox Popoli: The Rabbi Isn’t Wrong, Fake AI Produces Fake Histories, and The Crucifixion of Jesus
According To Hoyt: I Am Not Doing An April Fool’s Post, Theater of the Absurd, and Reading Pravda In English
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo 2.0, Tower of Silence – Release week, WriterDojo S4 Ep13: Christopher Ruocchio Exposé, and Review of Tower of Silence
Gab News: The Godless Message of Transitioning Vs. The Gospel Message Of Transformation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Tomb Will Be Empty
American Greatness: TN House Republicans Vote to Oust Two of the Three Dems Who Joined Gun-Control Mob at State Capitol, Biden Education Department to Change Title IX to Protect ‘Trans’ Athletes, and Swimmer Riley Gaines Ambushed, Assaulted, and Held Hostage By Trans Mob After Speech at San Francisco State University
American Thinker: Leftism and the Minions of Satan, also, Donald Trump, Tiberius Gracchus, And America’s Imminent End
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Gun-Free Zone Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Churches see spike in vandalism incidents, fear they are being harassed by dictatorship, London debt trial update: CRF asks Cuba to negotiate out of court, offers to “help” Cuba become another Viet Nam, Medical powerhouse update: Cuban baby dies due to lack of ambulances, and 150 young American leftists to visit Cuba, receive intensive training on how to turn U.S. into a communist utopia
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for April 7
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches Intelsat communications satellite, Exploring the cratered southern highlands of Mars, part 3, Red Chinese pseudo-company succeeds in reaching orbit again after three straight failures, Starship now stacked on launchpad, and Pushback: University president forced out because she fired professor for including Muhammad images in classwork
Cafe Hayek: One Good Outcome of the Great Depression
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Book Review: Father, Son, & Co, by Thomas Watson Jr.
Da Tech Guy: “What is Truth?” Miami Herald Edition
Don Surber: DeSantis Wants To Bring Back The 1950s? Cool,
First Street Journal: Once again, Joe Biden thinks that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, also, Helen Gym Flaherty apparently thinks that money grows on trees
Gates Of Vienna: Abduction of Children From Sweden, Video #4
The Geller Report: Israel retaliates against Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza as Netanyahu promises enemies ‘will pay’, Women’s Swimming Star Riley Gaines Violently Assaulted by Trans-Terrorists, and Election Bribery in Wisconsin: Far Left Organization Paid VOTERS UP TO $250 to Flip Wisconsin Supreme Court
Glenn Reynolds: Who Can You Trust?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Rings of Uranus
Hollywood In Toto: Follow the Science Seeks to Sway Moderates on Pandemic Overreach, also, ‘Gutfeld!’ Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary with New Book, Ratings Victories
Legal Insurrection: Maine Mother Suing School for Allegedly Hiding Her Child’s Gender Transition, ‘Prisoners Running the Asylum’, Biden and Obama Suddenly Concerned About Democratic ‘Norms’ After Ouster of Tennessee Lawmakers, Professor Blasts ‘Queer Leadership’ Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and Research Shows Opposition to Critical Race Theory is ‘Far From Over’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Bell, Book, and Candle
Outkick: Iowa Women’s Basketball Has To Pause Season Ticket Sales, Thanks To Caitlin Clark And Final Four Run, Little League Prank Leaves Unsuspecting Batters In Shambles, Brooks Koepka May Be Out Of Reach After Making Augusta National Look Way Too Easy Thru 36 Holes, Kevin Durant Isn’t Buying ’80s and ’90s NBA Players As Being ‘Tougher’, Caitlyn Jenner Rips ‘Woke’ Nike For Dylan Mulvaney Collaboration, and Riley Gaines Assaulted By Man In A Dress During College Campus Speech Defending Women’s Rights
Power Line: Have we reached peak madness?, The Daily Chart – America’s Urban Exodus, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: DeSantis Hits Speed Bump In Transgender Medicaid Fight
Shot In The Dark: Our Depraved Media, also, I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself
STUMP: My Condolences to Brandon Johnson, Next Mayor of Chicago, also, Good Friday: St. Matthew Passion and Data Update
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Was It Worth It?
This Ain’t Hell: Military Times says most injured enlistees from the South, Former Navy SEAL Howard Wasdin killed in Georgia plane crash, Valor Friday, and Afghanistan withdrawal report not about accountability, but it’s Donald Trump’s fault
Victory Girls: Trans Violence Is Acceptable To The Left
Volokh Conspiracy: A “Water Pistol Unnecessarily Preceding” a “Missile-Launching F-35 Attack”: Thoughts on the New York Trump Indictment
Watts Up With That: Germans Overwhelmingly Fed Up with Move to Green Energies as Massive Costs Loom, ‘Invoke eminent domain’: JP Morgan CEO Says Gov’t Should Seize Private Property to Build Wind & Solar Farms, and Claim: The SVB Collapse is hurting Climate Tech Startups
Weasel Zippers: Biden Admin Blames Trump For Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal, Kamala Harris Animatedly Delivers A Word Salad On America’s “Ambition And Aspiration”, and WH Spox Says Biden Is “Proud” Of The Failed Withdrawal From Afghanistan
The Federalist: Leftists Violate Separation Of Church And State With ‘Spiritual’ SEL In Public Schools, Federal Judge Says FDA Wrongfully Approved Abortion Pill, What The Cross Teaches Us About Cancel Culture, Democrats Who Called For Innocent Republicans To Be Fired Post-J6 Complain Their Party Faces Consequences For Inciting Tennessee Insurrection, and After Mail-In Midterm Mess, Gov. Lombardo Backs Bill To Restore Integrity To Nevada’s Election System
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Good Friday April 7th, also, The Passion Of The Christ

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Teen Psycho Tranny Arrested After Planning Mass Murder at Colorado Middle School

Posted on | April 7, 2023 | 1 Comment

William ‘Lilly’ Whitworth

Yeah, I know what you’re saying: “Pretty sure I saw Teen Psycho Tranny open for the Talking Heads in 1983.” But all joking aside . . .

A 19-year-old former student has been accused of threatening to shoot up multiple schools and churches in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to an affidavit from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s (DA) Office.
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office filed formal charges against William Whitworth, who identifies as “Lilly,” on April 1. An arrest affidavit obtained by the Daily Caller refers to Whitworth as Lilly, but checks off his sex as “male.” Whitworth is charged with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions, the affidavit shows.
Whitworth’s sister called the sheriff’s office to their home, reporting multiple threats Whitworth had allegedly made against schools in the area. Deputy Mike Watters asked Whitworth if he intended to shoot up a school, to which Whitworth nodded his head “yes,” according to the affidavit. Whitworth said Timberview Middle School, which he allegedly attended for fifth, sixth and seventh grade, was one of his “main targets,” but that he also intended to shoot up churches, according to the document. . . .
Whitworth offered to show Watters his manifesto, but in the process of looking for it police found several notebooks with drawings of desk setups and floor plans, including a drawing of a clock apparently to use as a detonation device, according to the affidavit. The notebook also listed the name of conservative Canadian activist Lauren Southern, calling her “pathetic,” and Donald Trump, whom he called a “con-man.” Police also retrieved a copy of “The Communist Manifesto” as evidence, according to the document.
Another notebook police believed to be the manifesto contained “a list of firearms and how to 3D print them,” “detailed lists of numerous named individuals to be killed and their indented casualty versus injury rate,” “information detailing the creation of improvised explosive devices” and “the Finalization of locations being Timberview Middle School, Prairie Hills Elementary, and Pine Creek High School,” according to the affidavit.

Not just a teen psycho tranny, but a Communist, too!

And speaking of dangerously crazy teenagers, the 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones was arrested for threatening a school shooting. Many readers will recall “Everybody Blog About Rebekah Jones Day” in 2021, when Jones was claiming to be a heroic “whistleblower” and pushing bogus harassment charges against Christina Pushaw. In this latest episode, Jones claimed that Governor DeSantis was somehow to blame for her son getting arrested — a claim that predictably proved to be bullshit, just like 100% of everything else Rebekah Jones says. In fact, police say, Jackson Jones “made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.”

Jackson Jones, 13

No word on whether Jones’ son identifies as transgender, or just regular teen psycho, but one thing is certain: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: Colorado, Crime, Florida, The Transgender Cult
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