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News From Zimbabwe, U.S.A.

Posted on | April 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

Nearly 15 years ago, I began comparing California to the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. No matter how prosperous any place might ever have been, once its government is taken over by thievish, corrupt parasites, its future will become a tale of misery, chaos and despair. Such is the sadly predictable fate of California, where the Democratic Party’s stranglehold on power has produced a lawless nightmare wasteland from which honest people are fleeing. The state’s population has seen a net decline of more than 800,000 people in the past three years, an exodus that was accelerated by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “maximum lockdown” response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is certainly no accident that California has become the “epicenter” of homelessness in the United States, with more than a third of the nation’s homeless population. Every major city in the state is blighted by shabby encampments full of drug addicts, psychotics and criminals.

Homeless living under an overpass in Los Angeles

The politicians in charge of California have no interest in actually solving the state’s problems. The worse it gets, the more law-abiding and productive people leave California, the greater grows the power of the state’s Democratic Party. Honest, sober people don’t elect Democrats, and by destroying the quality of life in California — turning the state into a place where no sane people would choose to live — Democrats chase away anyone who might be inclined to oppose them. It’s the same as Baltimore or Detroit, except on a statewide level.

Drugs, crime, budget shortfalls, failing schools — if politicians in California wanted to solve problems, there’s plenty of work to be done, but guess what they’re doing instead?

After 30-year-dispute, San Jose to remove
statue in victory for Native American
and Mexican communities
After more than 30 years of controversy, the Thomas Fallon statue in San Jose, California is being removed. The bronze sculpture, which was commissioned in 1988 and stored until its installation in 2002 without public input, depicts Captain Thomas Fallon raising an American flag during the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt — a symbol that to members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe represents a brutal time in Native American and Mexican history. While the removal comes at a hefty $450,000 price tag, it marks a big victory for Muwekma Ohlone and other affected communities. With no plans for a replacement statue, a traffic median will be installed following the removal, which is set to be completed by May 4.
“It’s like having a statue of a tyrant in the middle of San Jose. We’re trying to move forward from this, not move back,” a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe told NBC Bay Area. …
“The Fallon statue represents a time in our history that was brutal for us Native Americans and the Mexican communities that were living here along with us. I think history needs to be told right, so I wouldn’t want this statue to be removed and forgotten. That statue needs to be placed somewhere where that history is shared, both histories are shared, right? A symbol that reflects all of the people in the Bay Area ought to be put in its place,” Charlene Nijmeh, Chairwoman of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, told ABC7.

Oh, a “victory for Native American and Mexican communities”? The taxpayers of San Jose are on the hook for more than $400,000 to pay for this “victory,” and it’s far from obvious how members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe (or anyone else) is benefited by the displacement of Captain Fallon’s statue. Well, who exactly are the Muwekma Ohlone and who is this Captain Fallon against whom they harbor such a grievance?

By the time of the California uprising in 1846, there were scarcely more than 1,000 Ohlone living in the coastal region around San Francisco Bay, most of whom were what was known as “Mission Indians,” having settled in the vicinity of the various Spanish Catholic mission in the area. The idea that life was wonderful for the Ohlone under the Spaniards and Mexicans — well, you can believe what you want to believe, but don’t expect me to believe that. Do the Ohlone seriously contend their conditions were worsened by the American takeover of California?

Well, being insufficiently familiar with California history to judge of such matters, I can’t flatly deny that things got worse for the Ohlone after California joined the Union, but I am doubtful, and suspect that this “victory” — the removal of the Fallon statue in San Jose — was mostly about placating a noisy handful of “activist” types, rather than addressing any legitimate grievance of the Ohlone tribe. And, of all people, why are they blaming Thomas Fallon?

Thomas Fallon (1825–1885) an Irish-born Californian politician, best known for serving as 10th Mayor of San Jose. . . .
At age 18, he was in St. Louis and joined the third expedition of John C. Frémont to California. Early in 1846, Fallon stayed in Santa Cruz after Frémont visited the area. In June 1846, he raised a group of 22 Santa Cruz-area volunteers to join Fremont, appointing himself captain. When the Mexican–American War began in California with Commodore John D. Sloat’s capture of Monterey on July 7, Fallon’s force crossed the Santa Cruz Mountains to capture El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe (now the City of San José) without bloodshed, on July 11. On July 14, 1846 he received an American Flag from Sloat, which he raised over the juzgado of San Jose, the pueblo’s administrative building. Fallon’s volunteers then joined Fremont’s California Battalion for the remainder of the war.

And . . . ? Where’s the grievance here? Is there any claim that Fallon did any harm to the Ohlone, or to anyone else for that matter?

It is noted that Fallon served under Fremont, who perpetrated various massacres against the natives, but (a) the Ohlone are not named among Fremont’s victims and (b) there is no suggestion that Fallon took part in these massacres. I’ve never had a high estimation of Fremont, knowing him from Civil War history mainly as a politically connected bumbler who got beat by Jackson in the Valley. But as for why Fremont’s subordinate, Captain Fallon, should be considered so controversial, I confess myself mystified. When “activist” types began tearing down Confederate statues, I was among many who warned that this irrational iconoclasm wouldn’t stop there, and so now they’ve taken down Captain Fallon’s statue in San Jose for no reason at all, except that he was a white man and, in the 21st century, no statues of white men can be tolerated, especially in California. Just give the whole state back to the Ohlones, as far as I’m concerned. They can’t ruin it worse than Democrats.



 

 

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Crazy Furries Are Dangerous

Posted on | April 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy Furries Are Dangerous

Aaron Michael Zeman, a/k/a ‘Tadashi Kura Kojima’

Have we reached the bottom of the slippy slope yet? As someone who has spent years staring into the abyss, I’m rarely surprised by the depths of depravity in our increasingly insane culture, but the case of Aaron Zeman is a whole ’nother level of dangerous craziness. Zeman, 26, was arrested in December after police caught him in Nebraska with a 13-year-old boy he had kidnapped from Utah. Andy Ngo was the first to report that Zeman — who seems to have legally changed his name to “Tadashi Kura Kojima” — is a self-declared “MAP” (minor-attracted person, or what most people would call a pedophile) who was into role-playing as a dog in the “furry” fetish scene. Ngo reported that Zeman used a variety of online aliases, including “Hunter Fox” and “Sadiq Wolfe,” to pursue his victim.

The Daily Mail also reported about Zeman’s disgusting “furry” behavior. Ultimately that behavior culminated in Zeman’s arrest:

An Amber Alert for a 13-year-old boy out of Layton was canceled early Wednesday [Dec. 28] after he was found safe in Nebraska. The suspect was taken into custody.
According to police, [the boy] was communicating with an adult on the internet and left his home late Monday night [Dec. 26] to meet with him. Police said the suspect was Aaron Zeman, 26, of Arizona, and said he may have been on his way back to Arizona or Texas with the teen.
Layton police originally identified Zeman as “Hunter Fox” but later confirmed that is an alias he was using online. Zeman also goes by the name Tadashi Kojima, they said.
[The boy] and Zeman were found in a car at a gas station in Grand Island, Nebraska, at about 1:15 a.m., Layton Police Sgt. Glenn Johnson told KSL Wednesday morning.

The bland phrase “communicating with an adult on the internet” is insufficient to describe just how bizarre Zeman’s behavior was.

As I have previously remarked in other contexts, there is a reason why some things are called “sexual fantasies,” because if you try to pursue such desires in real life, bad things happen. Perhaps your fantasy is to become a “charismatic” polygamous cult leader with a harem of nubile women as your devoted followers. Well, best of luck with that fantasy, but when you die in a shootout with the cops or get sent to federal prison, don’t blame me — I warned you. Of course, it’s easy for me to say this, as I lack sufficient “charisma” to gather a harem of devoted followers, and Keith Raniere never asked me for advice, but the point is still valid: Pursuing your kinky fantasy is generally a bad idea, even if it doesn’t end in a hail of police gunfire or a 120-year prison sentence.

From the DOJ website, Feb. 6:

A federal grand jury in Utah returned an indictment charging a Tucson, Arizona man with kidnapping a Utah teen and taking the victim across state lines with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity.
According to court documents, Tadashi Kura Kojima, 26, also known as Aaron Michael Zeman, willfully and unlawfully kidnapped a 13-year-old, who he was not related to, or had legal custody of, and took the minor across state lines with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity. The criminal conduct resulted in an Amber Alert and the arrest of Kojima in Nebraska. Kojima has been provided notice of the intent to seek forfeiture of property, including a cell phone, gaming devices, and a 1998 White Toyota Avalon, which were used or intended to be used to commit or to facilitate the commission of the violation.
The indictment charges Kojima with kidnapping and transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. The defendant appeared in a U.S. federal court in Nebraska and is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, who will transfer Kojima to Utah. Upon his arrival in Utah, Kojima will appear on his indictment at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.
U.S. Attorney Trina A. Higgins for the District of Utah made the announcement.
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Carol A. Dain, is prosecuting the case. The investigation is being worked jointly by the FBI, Layton Police Department and Grand Island Police Department.

In addition to the federal charges, there’s also the state rape case:

A June trial in Grand Island is set for an Arizona man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Utah boy.
Tadashi Kojima, 26, Tucson, Arizona, [March 7] pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree sexual assault on a child, one count of third-degree sexual assault on a child and one count of resisting arrest. State statutes define first-degree sexual assault as involving penetration, while third-degree sexual assault involves sexual contact. . . .
The max penalty for a conviction of first-degree sexual assault on a child is life in prison.

Did I forget to use the word “allegedly”? Never mind. This guy’s got too many problems to be worried about filing a spurious defamation suit against a blogger, and so if I omitted the customary “innocent until proven guilty” disclaimer, who cares? Odds are that Zeman will either be murdered by other inmates or hang himself in his cell, and dead men can’t sue for libel. Meanwhile, however, John Sexton has a post at Hot Air addressing the Zeman case, reacting to a weird article from NBC News implying that somehow this crime is to be blamed on . . . Elon Musk?

The angle is that there were some difficulties in providing police with information about Zeman’s Twitter account and therefore it’s all Musk’s fault, an assertion that is . . . What’s the word I’m looking for here?

Oh, yes: CRAZY.

The liberal media’s bias is at least as dangerous as “furries,” because journalists habitually mislead the public about the scope and nature of the threats facing us. According to NBC News, we have more to fear from Elon Musk than we do from deranged pedophiles: “Never mind this demented pervert — beware of South African tech billionaires!”

Wait a minute, let me check the word count. Wow, did I go more than 1,000 words into this post without once using the phrase “doggy style”? Must be slipping in my old age, but despite these occasional lapses in my customary excellence in sarcasm, my point is still the same: “Furries” are crazy and, of course, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 04.25.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: But She’s Friends With The Mayor So She Stays
EBL: Maine Stein Song, The Odd Couple, and Aaron Rogers is a Jet
Twitchy: Don Lemon-Pepper Wings – Coming To A Wingstop Near You? also, Zaid Jilani Weighs In On Don Lemon’s 1619 Project-Fueled Meltdown Over Vivek Ramaswamy
Louder With Crowder: ‘The View’ Hilariously Defends Don Lemon, Says He Isn’t A Misogynist Because He Loves His Mom, Video exposes how bad a Target has to lock down merchandise in San Francisco so it isn’t stolen, and Pervert Disney World employee arrested taking “upskirt” video of teen at Star Wars store, had over 500 videos
Vox Popoli: Mike Lindell, Thou Art Avenged, A Wargame in Washington, Tucker Leaves Fox News, and Neither Archbishop nor King
Stoic Observations: The Infinitely Pliable Shit Shield

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Pope Francis dandelion rhyme
American Conservative: The Courage of Tucker Carlson, Ukraine Plans for World War III, The New Brazil Embraces the Post-American Order, and Tucker and TAC
American Greatness: New Cashless ATMs to Dispense Cards in Exchange for Cash, A Grand Alliance to Overcome the Elite Betrayal of America, and Biden Nominee for African Ambassador Twice Failed Foreign Service Officer Test, Struggles with English
American Power: Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s Firing
American Thinker: What Happened in Hospitals During Covid?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Parting Ways News
Babalu Blog: Rice distributed in communist Cuba can be used to plaster walls, Colombia expels Venezuelan opposition leader to Miami after he arrives for summit organized by Petro, Castro Bootlicker Harry Belafonte dead at 96, and Reports from Cuba: In Cuba, rumors are the counter-narrative of official version of events
BattleSwarm: Another Sneaky Texas Bond Election May 6, also, Brit-Turned-American On the Glories of Suburbia
Behind The Black: Watching live the landing of Hakuto-R1 on the Moon, China once again outlines its lunar base plans; Russia out? Project delayed?, Review of InSight data allows scientists to further refine their model of Mars’ interior, The breakup of a Martian glacier, and Today’s blacklisted American: Student destroyed because mob accepted false slanders against her
Cafe Hayek: Common Errors Committed by “Common Good Capitalists”, also, Griswold and Freytag On the So-Called “Trade Deficit”
Da Tech Guy: Like Disco Demolition, the Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney debacle is a black swan moment for the elites, Why the Media is Going After Biden in a Nutshell, The ghosts of Beirut, and Carlson, Lemon and Biden OH MY, Woke Warner and corps BudLighting themselves over Mother’s Day Under the Fedora
First Street Journal: Differences which make a difference, also, Bud Light: the choice is between incompetence and stupidity
Gates Of Vienna: It’s Millstone Time, Shut Up and Stick to the Narrative, and An “Allahu Akhbar” Moment in Vicenza
The Geller Report: WOKE Disney Undergoes More Massive Companywide Layoffs, also, Biden Declares Children Belong to the State Rather Than Parents
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, What Has Hubble Done Over the Past Year?, Whose Children?, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Richard Dreyfuss Denies Hollywood Blacklists Conservatives, Attack of the Doc! Recalls Pre-Woke America at Its Zaniest, and Evil Dead Rise Misses the Franchise’s Point
The Lid: Poll: Generation Z are the Worst, Dumbest, Most Useless Employees in U.S. History
Legal Insurrection: Thank you, Tucker, Trump Hints That He Won’t Participate in Republican Debates, Bipartisan Congressional Group Asks Biden Administration for Las Vegas-Los Angeles Bullet Train Funding, It’s Official – Republican Mark Robinson is Running for Governor of North Carolina, and Thank You, Tucker (Part 2): “You are not alone. We are with you.”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Hear ye!
Outkick: Lia Thomas Says ‘Feminists’ Are Just ‘Transphobes’, Father Of Former Georgia OL Devin Willock Plans To Sue School Over Death Of Son, Claims Negligence On Bulldogs Part, RGIII Says Packers ‘Fleeced’ Jets In Aaron Rodgers Trade Because ESPN Pays Him To Deliver Over-The-Top Opinions, Brock Purdy Says Seahawks LB Said The QB Couldn’t ‘High-Step’ Because He’s White, and Jemele Hill Unsurprisingly Upset CNN Fired Don Lemon, Immediately Plays Race Card
Power Line: The Daily Chart – Authoritarian Democrats, Democrats For Pedophilia, and Observations On Tucker
Protein Wisdom Reborn: How You Get There Still Matters – After Obergefell
Shark Tank: “By Every Measurable Standard, Biden Is A Complete And Total Failure”
Shot In The Dark: Urban Progressive Privilege – Sign O’ The Times, also, Communicating With The MN DFL Part II
STUMP: STUMP Podcast – Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Policy, also, Choices Have Consequences: Retirement Age
The Political Hat: Leviathan Is Kidnapping Children In Order To Mutilate Them, also, The Memory Hole Comes For Jeeves And Wooster
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon Denies Alien UFOs, The insanity of the liberal mind, General Mark Milley stripped of Military Awards?, and New Russian Main Battle Tank to Ukraine
Transterrestrial Musings: Tucker’s Firing, Engineering By Management, The Inhumanity Of The Green Agenda, To Grow America, and Fascism Works
Victory Girls: Tucker Carlson Firing Becomes More Clear, also, Hunter Baby Mama Drama Now In-Person In Arkansas
Volokh Conspiracy: “Students Sue After Michigan School District Forces Them to Remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Sweatshirts”, also, Sixth Circuit Panel Rejects Bump Stock Ban (Again)
Watts Up With That: Guerilla Style Ad Campaign: SAVE-WHALES-STOP-WINDMILLS.ORG, also, UN WMO Hits the Climate Change Panic Button
Weasel Zippers: Biden Says “As Pres, I Get To Pick Projects…Fund Projects From The Money That We Get”, Biden Kicks Press Out Shortly After Beginning Meeting With So-Called “Tennessee Three”, and FLASHBACK – In First Senate Campaign, A Joe Biden Suggested His Opponent Was Too Old To Serve…. He Was 63
The Federalist: Election Integrity Activists Launch New Website To Clean Up Michigan’s Voter Rolls, Judge Forces Sorority Girls To Disclose Identities To Stop Disturbing ‘Trans’ Male From Moving Into Their House, Mary Harrington’s ‘Feminism Against Progress’ Opens An Escape Hatch For The Sexual Revolution’s Prey, Montana Legislature Shut Down By Trans Activists, and Republicans’ Debt Limit Ideas Are Common Sense, Not ‘Wacko’
Mark Steyn: The Ofcom Thought Criminal Is Back!

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In The Mailbox: 04.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 25, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the late posting.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Just Wanted To Kill Someone
EBL: How are things going in Sudan? ?, also, The Diplomat
Twitchy: Horror Show – @Billboard Chris Reveals Ghastly Death During “Transitioning” Surgery, also, Dr. Fauci Admits Masks Didn’t Do Very Much Good
Louder With Crowder: Watch Tucker Carlson’s iconic final moments on Fox News: eating pizza with a hero deliveryman who foiled a car thief, Savannah Hernandez Asks Guys If It’s Gay To Date A Trans, Ahem, ‘Woman,’ Hear Their Hilarious Answers, and Breaking: Tucker Carlson is OUT at Fox News, last episode was last Friday (UPDATED)
Vox Popoli: ARKTOONS 12 MILLION, Indonesia Leaves the Dollarzone, Project Castaliaberg, and The False History of Constantinople
Fishersville Mike: Who Gets The First Tucker Interview?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: God versus LGBTQX
American Conservative: Bombing Journalistic Integrity, Aristocracy of the Midwits, and Tucker Carlson Out at Fox
American Greatness: House Weaponization Committee Subpoenas FBI Official After She Refuses to Answer Questions About Whistleblower Retaliation, The Garland, Blinken, and Morell Morass, and Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?
American Power: Another Biden-Trump Presidential Race in 2024 Looks More Likely, ‘The unsettling reality is that America in the not-too-distant future is going to have a lot in common with partial-collapse societies of Eastern Europe and Latin America where gangs have more power and influence than the government; where politicians pass the laws but gangs enforce the rules…’, and Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
American Thinker: All the President’s Relatives, Communism Is Liberty’s Mortal Enemy, and Erasing Women
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban exiles confront daughter of freed ‘Cuban Five’ spy in Spain, where she enjoys privileged life, Cuban Catholic priest believes Church can lead transition away from communist oppression in Cuba, and Cubans living in rice-producing Camagüey stand for hours in line for rice
BattleSwarm: Rheinmetall’s “GameChanger”, also, Ukraine Crossed the Dnipro? (Take Two)
Behind The Black: India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches two Singapore satellites, Update on lunar orbiter CAPSTONE, Al-Amal snaps first close-up images of Martian moon Deimos, Ingenuity snaps picture of Perseverance during its 51st flight on Mars, and Pro-life students attacked with eggs at the University of Arizona
Cafe Hayek: On Brooke Group, Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (U.S. Supreme Court, 1993)
CDR Salamander: Get Real, Get Better…Ummm, The PLAN Is In The Walking Stage, and It’s A Midrats April Free For All!
Chicago Boyz: A Weekend Energy Information Drop – Random Thoughts, also, Nuclear News Update
Da Tech Guy: The Optional Federal 50% 75% & 90% Tac Rates, An Idea Whose Time has Come, Ace Has Had Enough & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora, Remember when we cared about classified information?, and The Left: We Are DEFINITELY NOT Sexually Grooming Kids! Also the Left: If We Can’t Do Sexual Stuff in Front of Kids in Our Parades We Just Won’t Have them!
Dana Loesch: Tucker Carlson Is Out At Fox,
Don Surber: Fox Is The Ray Epps Of News, also, You Can’t Win If You Don’t Fight
First Street Journal: There’s no statute of limitations on stupidity, Harvard grad enters the unemployment line, and Solomon Jones and his very bad timing
Gates Of Vienna: Is Catholic Bavaria Surrendering to Islam?, Jew-Hatred Among Muslims in Germany, Ilhan Omar’s Islamophobia Resolution: Bad Idea, and Romania Refuses to Eat the Bugs
The Geller Report: Plundering Biden Creates New Government Agency, the “Office of Environmental Justice”, 18 Year Old Male Showers With Terrified 14 Year Old Girls at Wisconsin High School, and Fox Stock Plummets 4% on Carlson Departure, Loses $930M in Market Value
Glenn Reynolds: Hamilton, Hip-Hop, & The Culture Of Dueling
Hogewash: Don’t Know Much About History, 33 Years of Hubble, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Looking Upward From A Balloon, and Warped Galaxies
Hollywood In Toto: More Proof Subversive Comedy Thrives (But Not on ‘SNL’), Dark City – The Flop Roger Ebert Loved Dearly, and Tim Robbins: Media ‘Thuggish Censorship Arm of the Government’
The Lid: How Will The EPA Of Today Be Celebrating The Enron Earth Days Of The Past?, also, Randi Weingarten Is An Enemy Of America’s Schoolchildren
Legal Insurrection: Bird Flu Poised to Become Endemic in the US, Biden EPA Pushing New Power Plant Standards, Risking Already Strained Electric Grid, Netflix Draws Ire and Complaints over ‘Blackwashing’ of Cleopatra, Even Democrats in Massachusetts Are Objecting to DEI Policies in Their Schools, and Sanctuary Cities Are Imploding Under Democrat Immigration Policies
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Misericordias Domini, and St. Georges Day
Outkick: Colorado Football’s Post-Spring Game Mass Exodus Reflects Harsh Reality Of New Transfer Portal Era, Bubba Wallace ‘Junked’ By Blaney, NASCAR Stars Enjoy Spring Break, Kyle Busch Gets Lucky, Larson Almost Impaled, Team Fight, Jalen Rose Goes After Phil Jackson’s Reasonable Commentary On NBA Becoming Too Political, Implies Jackson Is Racist, Pittsburgh Pirates Finally Promote 33-Year-Old Drew Maggi After Over 1,150 Career Minor League Games, Masters Girl Aaliyah Kikumoto Wants To Be The Next Paige Spiranac, and Reggie Jackson Blasts City Of Oakland For Losing All Of Its Sports Teams
Power Line: Where Is That Manifesto?, Please, God, Can We Have Someone Else?, Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News, and Hiding Hunter?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Tucker Up, Buttercup!
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Accuses Biden Of Race-Baiting In Campaign Announcement Video
Shot In The Dark: Common Cause, also, Communicating With The MN DFL Part 1
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 3: Major Categories of Death, also, Sunday Skeleton: MEMENTO MORI!
The Political Hat: Transgender “Gotcha” Question Long Since Answered, also, Right To Work In North Carolina
This Ain’t Hell: Navy’s latest ship makes it 50ft into the water before hitting something, Russian air force accidentally dropped a bomb on a Russian city, Veteran Not Victim, And Then There Was One, and Overachiever finds yet one more way to overachieve
Transterrestrial Musings: The End Of The Silicon Valley Dream, Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, and Yes, Get Out Of Your Seat
Victory Girls: Twitter Blue Check Loss Causes Tantrums In Celebrity “Elites”, Afghanistan Deja Vu In Sudan As Americans Left Behind, Could We Survive The Trump-Biden Rematch?, and Lost In The Desert Bud Light Hires Swamp Creatures
Volokh Conspiracy: Tucker Carlson is More a Symptom of Our Problems than a Cause
Watts Up With That: Julia Hartley Brewer’s Furious CLASH With Extinction Rebellion Activist, ANU Climate Scientists Wargame UN Martial Law and A Global Military Coup, No, Great Britain News, 20°C Temperatures Will Not Cause Britons to ‘Bake in a Heat Wave’, and Big Brother: German Bundestag Approves Law to Accelerate Installation of Smart Meters
Weasel Zippers: The View: The Problem With Gun Owners Is “White Men” And Fox News, Occasional Cortex Defends Her Socialist Green New Deal As “Massive, But…Climate Crisis Is Even Bigger”, Look Who’s Going On Another Vacation, and Occasional Cortex Calls For More Regulation Of Conservative News
The Federalist: Tucker Carlson: ‘Information Control’ Via Internet Censorship Is A Huge Problem For Democracy, Ray Epps ‘60 Minutes’ Interview Raises More Questions Than Answers, If The Right Wants To Win, It Must Drop Its ‘That’s Not How We Do Things’ Approach To Organizing, How Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols And His Wife Modeled Life-Long Commitment In A Rocky World, and Censors Come For P.G. Wodehouse, Proving They Don’t Actually Want To Learn From The Past
Mark Steyn: No Wall Between Us – Spy Movies and the Strange World of The Quiller Memorandum, also, Tal Bachman: Sixty Years of the Beach Boys

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How to Translate Bidenese

Posted on | April 25, 2023 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Joe Biden emerged from his basement for a White House ceremony honoring Rebecka Peterson of Oklahoma as National Teacher of the Year, during the course of which event he said:

Rebecka put a teacher’s creed into words when she said, “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.” No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children.

Well, Joe, speaking of “someone else’s child,” what about your son Hunter? And what about the baby girl that Hunter spawned with a stripper from Arkansas? Is that baby “all our children”? If so, why won’t you acknowledge your bastard granddaughter? Beyond the predictable hypocrisy of Biden’s pseudo-moralistic sermon — he has never once said the name “Lunden Roberts” in public — we must also address the creepy totalitarian vibes of his assertion that children are national property, an implicit denial of parental rights. John Hoge called attention to this helpful translation to the original German version:

Also, we might add . . .

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Category: Joe Biden

Major (and Also Minor) Media News

Posted on | April 24, 2023 | 1 Comment

Today I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) when, just after noon, they reported that Tucker Carlson and Fox News have “parted ways.” Then they brought on the despicable Oliver Darcy to engage in unsubstantiated speculation as to why Carlson — the top-rated host in cable news for the past six years — had left Fox. But does anyone actually care what Oliver Darcy thinks? Because you might think that if Darcy’s opinions were so valuable, more people would be watching CNN, which has been mired in third place among cable news networks for at least the past 15 years. CNN sucks, and they spend an inordinate amount of time “reporting” about what’s happening on Fox News.

The Daily Caller (a publication founded by Carlson) offers no clues for the reasons behind his departure from Fox, which leads me to suspect that nobody yet actually knows why he left, but Glenn Reynolds at least offers some informed speculation (as opposed to Oliver Darcy’s bizarre theories). As for me, my best guess is that Tucker had gotten tired of having to put up with the uptight “don’t-be-too-right-wing” concerns of Fox News management, which is no doubt pining for the good old neocon days of Chris Stirewalt, Bill Kristol, Stephen Hayes, et al. However, the Los Angeles Times asserts as a fact that Carlson was “pushed out by Rupert Murdoch,” which may be true, as far as I know.

So, that is the major media news of the day, and as for the minor media, well, Don Lemon finally got fired from CNN:

Don Lemon has been terminated by CNN, the anchor announced on Monday just hours after he’d ended his morning broadcast.
“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned,” he tweeted in a fiery post announcing his exit. “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. It is clear that there are some larger issues at play. With that said, I want to thank my colleagues and the many teams I have worked with for an incredible run. They are the most talented journalists in the business, and I wish them all the best.”
CNN CEO Chris Licht confirmed the news in a memo to network staffers: “CNN and Don Lemon have parted ways. Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years,” he wrote. “We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.”
CNN disputed Lemon’s characterization of his termination in a statement. “Don Lemon’s statement about this morning’s events is inaccurate,” wrote the network’s PR shop. “He was offered an opportunity to meet with management but instead released a statement on Twitter.”
CNN anchor John King seemed surprised by the news during Monday’s broadcast of Inside Politics. “I don’t know the details happening while I’m sitting in the chair here, but I work here. I love this place,” King said. “Certainly wish Don the best. He’s always been good to me as a colleague.”
“I’m just relieved,” one female on-air CNN personality told The Daily Beast. “I really never thought that there wouldn’t be any accountability right. I mean, these guys are untouchable for the most part.”
The sudden exit ends a tumultuous year for the star anchor, who has seemingly generated one negative headline after another for a network under siege by financial losses and leadership changes.

Nice touch with that adverb, “seemingly.”



 

 

Category: CNN, Fox News

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Dip Extra Scoop Donna D’Errico Edition

Posted on | April 24, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So there I was, sitting in the bar at Tonopah Station, nursing a Diet Coke while watching Rocky V and thinking about this post. For a while I was resigned to going with Talia Shire, who was cute back in the day, but then I realized I had a better option, one supplied by the fine lads at Flappr: former Baywatch actress Donna D’Errico, who gave her name to the Donna D’Errico MILF Thirst Economy. Also, since I was busy working myself to death in the tax mines last Sunday, here’s the links that would have been in last week’s post. Without further ado, the lady herself in a tasteful Stars & Stripes bikini.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“Svimvear, very nice!”

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night (1), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2049, Morning Mistress (1), Girls With Guns (1), Hot Pick of the Late Night (2), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2055, Morning Mistress (2), and Girls With Guns (2). 

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Category: Rule 5

The Rontavious Factor

Posted on | April 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

Earlier this week, we shared the story of a burglary at a gun store in Macon, Georgia, in which two suspects stole more than 60 firearms. Police arrested 32-year-old Rontavious Jackson who, because he was charged with 31 counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon — each of which counts could be punished by up to 10 years in prison — might be sentenced to more than 300 years behind bars. Because there were two suspects in this crime, and Jackson had been caught with only about half of the stolen firearms, I was interested to know whether police had caught the second burglar. Because the name Rontavious seemed rather unique, I Googled “Rontavious + arrest” and oh, my goodness!

Rontavious Shawn Clark

OCTOBER 2018:

A string of four armed robberies in Charlotte, North Carolina, came to a sudden end when the robbers, driving a stolen Lexus SUV, collided with a tractor-trailer truck in Lancaster County. The driver of the stolen Lexus, 26-year-old Rontavious Shawn Clark, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Clark had just gotten out of jail two days ago. The passenger, 23-year-old Danneil Elijah Hughes, was taken to a hospital before being booked on charges of armed robbery.

Rontavious Darnell Gaston

NOVEMBER 2018:

Rontavious Darnell Gaston, 25, was arrested after police in Montgomery, Alabama, said he robbed three businesses in less than 72 hours.

Rontavious Managan

APRIL 2020:

Rontavious Managan, 18, was arrested and charged with murder in the drive-by shooting of Jamarcus Jordan in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rontavius Deon Holt

MARCH 2023:

Rontavius Deon Holt, 25, was arrested and charged with murder after a drug deal gone bad led to a gunfight inside a barbershop in Clayton County, Georgia, that ended with a 17-year-old getting shot in the face.

Keep in mind, I Googled “Rontavious + arrest” on the theory that Rontavious must be such a rare name that the search would automatically lead to stories about the Macon gun-store burglary, but apparently it’s far more common than I suspected and, considering the pattern here, I wonder if everybody named “Rontavious” is a criminal.

I’ve only shown you the tip of the iceberg here. There’s also:

Although I could keep searching and turn up even more examples, why belabor the obvious? If you’re thinking of naming your baby boy “Rontavious,” you should probably reconsider your choices.



 

 

Category: Crime
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