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Obligatory CNN Mention

Posted on | February 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

Last week on The Other Podcast, I lamented that my co-host John Hoge didn’t have time to get us a sound bite of the Paw Patrol theme song to play during our segment about the neverending woes at CNN (whose programming gets lower ratings than the Nickelodeon kiddie cartoon). A few recent headlines should suffice to convey the situation:

CNN is in a hole and they keep digging themselves deeper. This week, Don Lemon returned after a three-day absence:

Don Lemon’s three-day hiatus from “CNN This Morning” resulted in a 5% increase in viewership for the struggling cable news show, which was thrown into turmoil by the co-host’s sexist remarks about GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley last week.
Viewership of “CNN This Morning” reached a total of 617,000 households on Feb. 17 — the first day of Lemon’s absence. The next day, viewership reached 678,000 total households during the three-hour block this past Monday, according to data provided by Samba TV, the analytics firm that provides real-time data on audience measurement for streaming services.
“CNN This Morning” attracted an even larger audience on Tuesday, when it drew 709,000 households, according to Samba TV. Lemon returned on Wednesday. . . .
“Average viewership the two days following his comments was up 5% compared to the average daily viewership the week before,” [Dallas Lawrence, a senior vice president at Samba TV] said.
“In fact, two out of the three most-watched days in the past eight analyzed were the days in which Lemon was absent.” . . .
A chastened Lemon returned to the airwaves on Wednesday morning. Before taking his seat alongside co-host Poppy Harlow, Lemon posted an apology on Twitter.
“I appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today,” he wrote amid calls for him to have been fired.
“To my network, my colleagues and our incredible audience — I’m sorry.”
“I’ve heard you, I’m learning from you, and I’m committed to doing better. See you soon,” he wrote.
During Wednesday’s return, Lemon never made mention of the controversy on air.
Lemon sparked outrage during the Feb. 16 broadcast of “CNN This Morning” when he told Harlow and fellow co-host Kaitlan Collins that the 51-year-old Haley was “not in her prime.”
The remark prompted Harlow, 40, to storm off the set in disgust.

What I liked best was that part about “our incredible audience” — “incredible” meaning unbelievable, because how is it possible that a supposedly important news network could have so few viewers?

At any rate, I’ve given John sufficient warning to get that sound bite ready, so tune in at 7 p.m. ET tonight for The Other Podcast.

Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, whenever you’re in trouble!
Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, we’ll be there on the double!
No job’s too big, no pup’s too small.
Paw Patrol, we’re on the roll!



 

 

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 02.24.23

Posted on | February 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Confinement IV may actually help with this since I’ll be trying to stay on schedule and be at the panels I want to see.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

State of the media

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Do You Believe In Freedom?
EBL: Buttigieg Shrugs and Joy Behar Blames Toxic Disaster on Ohio
Twitchy: Media Orgs Demand All The J6 Footage They Didn’t Care About Until Tucker Carlson Got Access, While Her Husband Languishes In Hospital Gisele Fetterman Posts Vacation Pics With Kids, and Taylor Lorenz’ Spectacular Self-Own About Journalists Seeking Comment
Louder With Crowder: Jordan Peterson narrating a little boy riding his scooter in the rain is the greatest thing on the Internet, also, Ben Stiller won’t bend the knee to the woke mob – refuses to apologize for ‘Tropic Thunder’
Vox Popoli: A Fate Worse Than Death, also, About That Rubicon
According To Hoyt: The Power of Lies, Your Duty To Your Country, and Whistling Past The Graveyard
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 E7: Interviews
Gab News: The AI Arms Race Is Here
Stoic Observations: American Prisons, Honor Killing, & The Innocence Of Muslims
Granite Grok: Citing A Yiddish Proverb

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine’s Endgame, also, Will Hungary Be Vindicated Again?
American Greatness: Media Demands Darkness, Not Sunlight, on January 6 Tapes, also, New Charges Revealed Against Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
American Thinker: Biden Administration’s New Equity Atlas: An Unconstitutional Equity Redistribution Scheme, also, TIA: This Is Africa? No, This Is America
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Newsom Nuisance News
Babalu Blog: Cuban pilot who defected in an old Soviet plane granted political asylum in the U.S., Surprise! Leeches and other parasites found in Cuba’s drinking water, and Reports from Cuba: Cuba faces shortages of rationed rice, dried beans, cooking oil, sugar, and salt
BattleSwarm: Russia’s Withdrawal From START – Less Than Meets The Eye, also, LinkSwarm for February 24
Behind The Black: Red China places classified satellite into orbit using Long March 2C rocket, ULA now targets May 4th for first Vulcan launch, Puerto Rico’s Ports Authority is looking for an operator to run the island’s own spaceport, and Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted
Cafe Hayek: Twitter Admits That It Received “Legal Demands” from the US Government to Censor Covid Information, also, The Infantile Woke
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, The Russo-Ukrainian War D+365 Quicklook
Da Tech Guy: Here comes a one two punch for the Medical Transgender Profit Machine
Don Surber: Masks Worked – They Just Didn’t Stop COVID
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Once again, The Philadelphia Inquirer tries to obscure the truth
Gates Of Vienna: Who Killed Saman Abbas?, Viktor Orbán: “That is Their War, Not Ours”, and To Go on the Dole, You Must Give Up Your Wheels
The Geller Report: VACCINE DEATH AND INJURY: “This Is The Greatest Crime Scene I’ve Ever Seen In My Life”
Glenn Reynolds: Mike Pence, Dick Cheney,& The Constitution
Hogewash: Smog, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and There’s Good News, and There’s Bad News
Hollywood In Toto: Sam Smith and Satan – The Meaning Behind the Devil-Worship, also, Creed III Proves There’s Life After Rocky
The Lid: View’s Joyless Behar Says E. Palestine Residents Deserved It Since They Voted for Trump
Legal Insurrection: Minnesota HS Student – ‘Principal’s Attempt to Unify Us’ Ended Up ‘Pitting Us Against Each Other Based on Characteristics We Can’t Control’, ‘He Says He’s Not Done. He’s Not Finished What He’s Started’, L.A. DA Gascón Suspends Prosecutor for ‘Deadnaming’ Transgender Child Molester Accused of Murder, and Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) Launched To Fight Equity Discrimination
Nebraska Energy Observer:Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Outkick: J.J. Redick Doubles Down On Physicality In NBA While Clapping Back At Dominique Wilkins, Manny Machado Justifies Opt Out Decision by Talking About the ‘Price of Eggs’, Johnny Damon Makes (Savannah) Bananas Career Move, ‘The Curt Schilling Baseball Show’: New Rules, Jake DeGrom, World Series Odds And More, and Triple-A Indianapolis Indians Refuse To Change Name Amid Backlash
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, The Round Mound of Commentary?, and The Sex-Change Lawsuits Begin
Shark Tank: DeSantis Mobilizes Law Enforcement To Counter This Weekend’s “National Day Of Hate”
Shot In The Dark: I’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help Fix History, also, He
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – What to Do about the Post Office
This Ain’t Hell: Rachel Dolezal, part deux. Or is it trois?, Flight testing next year for ship based hypersonic missile, An individual, associated with the Democrats, fraudulently obtains veteran records, Red China outpacing the U.S. with warship production, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: Thoughts On Mayor Pete, also, Gender Dysphoria Among Youth
Victory Girls: Transgender Psychosis In The Department Of Defense
Volokh Conspiracy: Journal of Free Speech Law – “Campus Speech Should Not Be Free,” by Prof. Sarah Conly (Bowdoin), also, A Year of Writings on the Russia-Ukraine War
Watts Up With That: No, CNN, an Opinion Piece about ‘Dangerous Climate Feedback Loops’ Doesn’t Qualify as Science, also, UN Plan to Kill Free Speech Headlined by a President who was Convicted of Corruption
Weasel Zippers: WH Struggles To Say Exactly Why Biden Is Dodging A Visit To East Palestine, also, Meghan Markle “Upset And Overwhelmed” By Her Depiction On South Park
The Federalist: Alabama Secretary Of State Discovers Popular Leftist Voter-Roll Group’s Address Is Bogus, Calls Grow For Georgia Officials To Investigate DeKalb County’s Acceptance Of Shady Election Funding, New York Times Uses Groupthink, Not Evidence, To Claim ‘DEI’ Works, and Biden’s Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains To Bless Putting Male Soldiers In Female Showers And Bedrooms
Mark Steyn: These Boots Are Made for Warring

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21st-Century Fast Food Anarchy

Posted on | February 24, 2023 | Comments Off on 21st-Century Fast Food Anarchy

Police in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, are seeking “a person of interest in an assault case,” which “unfolded when an unidentified woman became angry over cold french-fries”:

Police report the woman who approached workers at the counter of Hardee’s on Middle Tennessee Boulevard, was acting angry saying that the fries she was served were cold. The MPD reported, “The customer began throwing the food over the counter at employees. As the unknown individual tried leaving the restaurant, an employee followed.” Authorities say when the employee followed the woman towards the door, his hat was knocked off and the woman allegedly punched the worker in the face, twice.
The person of interest left Hardee’s on Middle Tennessee Boulevard in a white four-door Hyundai sedan.

So be on the lookout for that Hynundai driver in Murfreesboro. Meanwhile, if you’re serving fried chicken in Augusta, Georgia, don’t forget the biscuits:

A Popeye’s customer is accused of ramming her vehicle into the fast-food restaurant because her order didn’t have biscuits.
Belinda Miller, 50, of Augusta, was charged Wednesday with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the first degree.
And this isn’t the first time she has rammed a building with the same vehicle!
At Popeye’s, Miller fled the scene on Saturday after ramming her black Toyota Rav4 into the Walton Way restaurant, according to a sheriff’s report.
Manager Jackie Blount said the angry customer drove the SUV into the east entrance of the restaurant, nearly striking an 18-year-old employee. . . .
Blount told authorities that she corrected the mistake and gave Miller her biscuits, but the suspect was still not happy.
“After Miller drove her vehicle through the building, she fled the scene and her vehicle was later found at her residence with front end damage,” a report says.
In May 2020, Miller claimed she was “drunk and upset” when she rammed her car into the side of an apartment building — twice! She drove the 2011 Toyota Rav 4 into the side of an apartment building at Forest Brook Apartments on Damascus Road.
The man she was arguing with tried to calm her down after she hit the building the first time. She backed up and struck the building a second time.
In 2018, the same woman allegedly pulled on the wheel as a man was driving, causing him to run off the road and into a wooded area. She was also charged with punching him as he drove.
She got probation in both cases from 2018 and 2020, according to online records.

Please, lock this woman up before she kills somebody! Meanwhile, in Florida, make sure your customer gets her free cookie, or else:

An Altamonte Springs woman was arrested and booked into jail on several charges after she allegedly loaded a handgun and began to wave it at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Florida because she did not receive a free cookie she believed she was owed, according to the arrest affidavit.
Amari Bente Hendricks, 24, was booked into the Seminole County Jail on Feb. 16 on several charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, improper exhibit of a firearm, battery causing bodily harm, and resisting an officer, the report said.
The McDonald’s employee told an officer with the Altamonte Springs Police Department that the woman was mad that no one asked if she was using the fast-food restaurant’s rewards program and because of that, she thought she was entitled to a free cookie, according to the arrest affidavit.
When the employee got to the window, Hendricks was allegedly yelling and acting irate. The woman was eventually given a free cookie, and continued to argue with the employee, the report said.
The worker told officers that Hendricks then grabbed a black handgun, inserted a magazine, and proceeded to rack the slide. The woman said she heard two click sounds “associated with someone chambering a round,” according to the report.
Hendricks them parked her car in front of the McDonald’s and allegedly attempted to open the front door. Employees had locked the door because they feared for their lives, the report said. Police said Hendricks forced herself inside the restaurant and struck one of the employees multiple times and forced him out of the building.

Just random violence, caused by poor customer service.

But some people may find another pattern here.



 

 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 02.23.23

Posted on | February 23, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.23.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Will Crush Everyone To The Lowest Common Denominator
EBL: Trump goes to East Palestine, Biden and Buttigieg just snipe, also, Anna
Twitchy:
Louder With Crowder: Watch: Mark Wahlberg knows believing in Jesus isn’t popular in Hollywood, but refuses to deny his faith, also, Commie/Black Panther Angela Davis Found Out She’s Descended From a Mayflower Pilgrim and It’s Glorious to Watch
Vox Popoli: The Wages of Empire, Nothing Fucking Works, and Overwhelmed by AI
Granite Grok: An Open Letter To Neil Oliver & Glenn Beck

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ding Dong, The Witch Is … A Ding-Dong, also, Never Nikki
American Greatness: America’s Leaders Have Failed the Country, Hunter Biden Misses Deadline for House GOP’s Records Request, and The Ukraine War’s Prelude to What?
American Thinker: Why the 2020 Election was Unverifiable, A Great Awakening Decades in the Making, and Biden’s Wonderful World of ‘Equity’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Student Loan News
Babalu Blog: Another electrical grid collapse plunges more than half of Cuba into darkness, Castro dictatorship puts Cuba up for sale to the highest bidder, and AMLO stands by his lefties
BattleSwarm:
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 3B rocket launches communications satellite, Russians launch unmanned Soyuz to ISS, Webb spots massive galaxies in the early universe that should not exist at that time, What to expect when SpaceX launches Starship on its first orbital flight, and Today’s blacklisted American: Policeman forced to resign simply because he is Christian
Cafe Hayek: Jordan Peterson Talks With Jay Bhattacharya
CDR Salamander:
Chicago Boyz: Long Remembered?
Da Tech Guy: The Best Move for Trump on DeSantis: the Pappy O’Daniel Gambit, also, The Biden Regime is planning on surrendering US sovereignty to the World Health Organization
Dana Loesch: Disaster Averted! Biden Solves All Our Problems With Identity Politics Dream Team!
Don Surber: Lefty Loons Take On The Lefty NYT
First Street Journal: Another soft-on-crime “progressive” prosecutor gets in trouble
Gates Of Vienna: Rumblings by Thor?
The Geller Report: Shamed By Trump, Buttigieg Slouches to East Palestine, Refuses to Take Questions, Missouri AG gives Ultimatum to Soros-Backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney General Kim Gardner Following Public Outcry: Resign or Be Removed, and Clinton Aide With Links to Epstein Who Was Shot and Tied to Tree, Ruled Suicide — Despite No Gun at Scene
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Colliding Black Holes
Hollywood In Toto: The Sad Decline of Ex-Comedy Titan Judd Apatow, also, Cocaine Bear Misses Cult Status by a Country Mile
The Lid: There Is No Alternative To Israeli Victory
Legal Insurrection: Fashion Designer Claims Sam Brinton Wore Her Clothes From Her Lost Luggage at DC Airport in 2018, Biden’s Pause on Announcing Plans to Run in 2024 Has Some Democrats Nervous, Harvard Hosts ‘Decolonizing Black Health’ Conference, Biden Admin Thinks Diversity is ‘Really Important’ When Picking Next Fed Vice Chair, and Seattle Reconsiders ‘Defunding the Police’ Due to Rising Crime
Nebraska Energy Observer: Exhausting
Outkick: Paige Spiranac Trolls Her Haters With Golf Video, Stephen A. Smith Says NBA Scouts Will ‘Applaud’ Brandon Miller’s ‘Mental Toughness’ After 41-Point Night,Is Brylie St. Clair The Paige Spiranac Of Softball?, Seahawks Seem Poised To Throw It Back To Steve Largent-Era Next Fall, and LIV Golfers Will Be Allowed To Play In All Four Major Championships In 2023
Power Line: Dr. Chen, call your office, Electric Vehicles Are Not the Future, and Did Biden blow up Nord Stream 1 & 2?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Plans To Eliminate Tuition Waivers For Illegals
Shot In The Dark: All Things Dispensed With, Justice Is Blind And Probably a Little Buzzed On Adderall, and Pot Calling The Kettle A Terrorist
The Political Hat: Biden’s Praxis
This Ain’t Hell: Tension in Russia as one year anniversary of Ukraine invasion approaches, Female Soldiers Diagnosed At Twice Male Rate, and You thought 1984 was just a book
Victory Girls: House GOP: Impeachment For Cabinet Officials
Volokh Conspiracy: Copyright Office: No Copyright Protection for Certain AI-Generated Works
Watts Up With That: The energy transition delusion – inescapable mineral realities, also, How Livestock Farming Benefits The Planet
Weasel Zippers: While Buttigieg Does Nothing, Trump Buys McDonald’s For East Palestine First Responders, Biden’s Woke Envoy To Afghanistan Asks Beyonce To Teach “Black Girl Magic” To Oppressed Afghan Women, NYC To Name Street After Notorious Racist, and Biden Says He Doesn’t “Have Time” To Give Reaction To Russia Pulling Out Of New START Nuclear Treaty
The Federalist: Oklahoma Senate Moves To Ensure Only U.S. Citizens Are Voting In State Elections, Instead Of Getting Nonwhite Students Up To Speed For Honors Classes, ‘Equity’-Obsessed Schools Give Up On Kids Entirely, Professor Banned For Calling Out Racism At Christian University Negotiates His Return, Team DeSantis Shows The Only Way To Beat The Lying Media Is To Cut Them Off, and Biden Shoveled $36 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Bail Out Teamsters For Mismanaged Pensions
Mark Steyn: Mask Addicts and Faux Antisemitism, also, The Great Reset

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MSNBC’s ‘Right-Wing’ Obsession

Posted on | February 23, 2023 | 1 Comment

Following an afternoon nap, I awoke and returned to my downstairs office where the TV was on Fox News live coverage of the Murdaugh trial in South Carolina, which is the most boring thing in the world and I have no idea why anyone thinks otherwise. There’s no element of suspense to the trial, since the accused is obviously guilty, so the real mystery is, why do TV news producers think we want to watch it?

At 5 p.m., I decided to switch to MSNBC — I watch, so you don’t have to — and ooohhh, boy! Believe it or not, Nicolle Wallace was still going on about the Jan. 6, 2021, “insurrection.” Does anyone at that network have the objectivity to point out to the people in charge that their permanent fixation — “January 6 now! January 6 tomorrow! January 6 forever!” — is irrational? Or do they not care, so long as their core audience continues lapping it up with a spoon? Meanwhile, the family dog was acting like she needed a walk, so I took her out for a while to do her business and, when I returned, Wallace had pivoted to talking about THE GROWING MENACE OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST VIOLENCE, with Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League as guest.

So I’m watching this and realize that Wallace hasn’t actually changed the subject, but rather that she was trying to suggest a connection between the kind of violence that the ADL was talking about and her “January 6 forever” theme. So I looked up the new report by the ADL’s Center on Extremism entitled, “Murder & Extremism in the United States in 2022,” and the first graphic in the report was this:

The trend in “extremist” murders is . . . DOWN!

According to the ADL, there were 78 such killings in 2016, compared to just 25 in 2022, and of those 25 last year, “60% of the murders [i.e., 15] came from just two incidents — deadly shooting sprees in Buffalo, New York, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.” Then I stared at that sentence for a while, thinking: “OK, I remember the Buffalo shooting, but Colorado Springs? What ‘extremist’ mass murder did I miss there?” So I did a quick Google and realized they were talking about this guy:

Remember that guy? Aldrich killed five people at a gay bar, but this was just a few months after he had been arrested following a four-hour standoff with police, an incident reportedly caused by Aldrich’s anger that his grandparents were moving away. Rather than classifying his murder spree as any kind of “extremism,” I categorized it as further proof that Crazy People Are Dangerous (as if further proof were necessary). Obviously, the ADL disagrees, but I just double-checked and found this in the latest news on the Colorado Springs case:

Aldrich’s public defenders pointed to various medications in his name for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and mood regulation, indicating they may be trying for a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

So every time a de-institutionalized nutjob commits a crime, we have to examine his lunatic gibberish for a political motive, I guess?

But never mind that. The point is that, even according to the ADL, which has every motive to represent “extremist” violence as a looming threat, the actual numbers of such killings declined in 2022 and, while we’re at it, can we please put this in context of the overall homicide numbers?

According to the FBI, the U.S. had 22,900 homicides in 2021, the most recent year for which such national statistics are available. You see that 25 “extremist” murders are a tiny fraction of this annual total, barely a tenth of one percent (0.109% to be more precise). Of America’s murder victims in 2022, 99.891% were not killed by “extremists.”

Just to put that number into further context, in 2022, Chicago reported 737 homicides, Philadelphia had 526 homicides, Baltimore had 333 homicides, New Orleans had 277 homicides, and St. Louis had 200 homicides. These five cities accounted for a combined total of 2,073 homicides last year — but because none of them were motivated by “extremism,” MSNBC doesn’t care. Murderers in America’s cities can be stacking up corpses to the sky and MSNBC won’t pay the least bit of attention unless there’s an apparent motive of “hate” that might give Nicolle Wallace another opportunity to lecture her audience about the GROWING MENACE OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM!

It’s not news, it’s propaganda. It’s about stigmatizing political opposition by conflating Republican voters with “extremist” kooks like that nutjob in Colorado Springs, who should have already been behind bars.



 

 

Category: MSNBC

Is Georgia Anti-Trump Grand Jury Forewoman Literally a Witch?

Posted on | February 23, 2023 | 2 Comments

Everybody is talking about the weird media tour by the forewoman of the Atlanta grand jury that was investigating President Trump’s dispute of the 2020 election results in Georgia. This investigation is evidently based on the theory that a candidate who believes he was cheated in an election must be guilty of some kind of crime if he attempts to rectify the alleged cheating. And it’s part of a pattern that Tucker Carlson correctly discerned, i.e., that “partisan prosecutors at all levels, state and federal, are trying to prevent [Trump] from running for president again.” Or to quote Lavrentiy Beria: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”

Enter, stage left, 30-year-old Emily Kohrs, whose identity was first revealed by the Associated Press, “who has described herself as between customer service jobs and who said she didn’t vote in the 2020 presidential election.” Her appearance in a series of televised interviews has provoked dismay among liberals, who understand that having this giggling fool as the foreman of the grand jury creates grounds for Trump’s lawyers to get any possible indictments quashed.

For some reason, I was under the impression that only the most respectable citizens were chosen to serve on grand juries, but I was apparently mistaken, and Fulton County’s Democratic district attorney, Fani Willis, picked this jury from a randomly selected pool of Fulton County residents. That this grand jury would choose Emily Kohrs as their forewoman — well, what does that tell you?

Everybody has noted the weirdness of this woman with the off-her-meds mannerisms, but what about her interest in witchcraft?

I’M NOT KIDDING, PEOPLE!

Internet sleuths dug up a Pinterest account apparently belonging to Emily Kohrs, which includes two pages crammed with posts about witchcraft, astrology, tarot, crystals, herbs — the usual kooky wicca/pagan stuff that such Seekers of Arcane Knowledge pursue.

(Hat-tip: Gateway Pundit and Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

To many Millennial/Gen Z types, such an interest may not seem particularly odd — all kinds of people are into all kinds of things on social media — but what are the odds that, in choosing a grand jury to investigate the former President of the United States, this kooky young wicca woman would be chosen? Doesn’t this suggest non-random factors may have influenced the jury selection process?

Well, I’m sure Trump’s lawyers must have had a laugh — “WINNING!” — as they got to work on their motions to void the grand jury’s findings, but isn’t this a sad example of what’s wrong with America’s justice system?



 

 

Category: Donald Trump, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 02.22.23

Posted on | February 23, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.22.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Off to Nashville for another Confinement con, which will definitely be less woke & annoying than last weekend’s Life, The Universe, & Everything. No disruption in the daily posting, though.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

The Daily Show is still worthless, even without Jon Stewart.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ash Wednesday, also, Weirdo Trump Grand Jury Foreperson in Georgia
Twitchy: Chuck U. Schumer Panics Over Release of J6 Videos To Tucker Carlson, Trump Grand Jury Forewoman’s Pinterest Page Is Real And It’s Spectacular, and Gaslight Detectors Explode Everywhere As VP Harrs Explains Why We Have More Money
Louder With Crowder: Smug teacher claims she knows what’s best for your kids because she has a Masters’s Degree and you don’t, Guy who tried to shoot Kyle Rittenhouse is suing him for being a better shot, and Jen Psaki Lands MSNBC Show and Swears She’ll Be Honest, But We Have Doubts
Vox Popoli: Organizational Assassinations, also, Under 7 Percent

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Passing of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, also, Better to Burn the Books
American Greatness: African Fashion Designer Who Lost Her Suitcase at an Airport in 2018 Says She Recognizes Her Outfits on Biden’s Former Nuclear Waste Guru, also, James and the Giant Preach
American Thinker: Social Security is Broke, but American Taxpayers Just Gave Ukrainian Pensioners a Double-Digit Raise
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Most of Cuba goes dark again after third major power outage in a week, Cuban priest: ‘Cuba is sinking, we’re living in a sinking ship’, and For Cuban baseball players, the best way they help the sport is to leave the island
BattleSwarm: 2023 Greg Abbott Declares War On 2020 Greg Abbott
Behind The Black: SpaceX ready to launch Starship prototype #24 into orbit, Despite a complete lack of any customers, Spaceport America in New Mexico now plans to build a “reception center”, NASA signs deal to launch Israel’s first space telescope mission, Cliffs inside 285-mile-wide Schiaparelli Crater on Mars, and The new normal: persecuting an expert witness because he testified for the defense in a political-charged trial
Cafe Hayek: An Open Letter to Michel Martin, also, Capitalists Supply the Rope for Their Own Hanging
CDR Salamander: Vietnam: the Great Strategic Opportunity
Da Tech Guy: The Anglican Communion Gives Up Christianity For Lent
Don Surber: Who Needs Nikki?
First Street Journal: Why is the Pope taking religious actions in a political squabble?, also,  Are dog lives more important to “animal rights activists” than defending your own dog, and yourself, from an attacking dog?
The Geller Report: President Trump Delivers Truckloads of Water, Food to East Palestine After Train Derailment to Huge Crowds, also, Biden Gives ANOTHER HALF A BILLION DOLLARS To Ukraine, Nothing To Ohio
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Processing Hubble Images, and You Keep Using That Word
Hollywood In Toto: The Hollywood in Toto Podcast Returns!, JP Sears, Chandler Juliet Mock Chelsea Handler’s Childless Video, and Jesus Revolution Shows Spiritual Side of Flower Power Era
The Lid: NY Times Op-Ed: Masks Did Nothing For Covid
Legal Insurrection: Liberal Law Professors No Longer Love the Supreme Court, Jewish Profs Claim CUNY Targeting Them for Retaliation for Complaining About Anti-Semitism on Campus, California Budget Deficit is Even Worse than Gov. Hairgel Initially Projected, and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reveals ‘Overhaul’ for Education, Banning CRT and Offering School Choice
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Way We Were
Outkick: Baltimore Orioles Top Executive Says Booking Concerts Is a Higher Priority Than the Team, ‘Important Packers Source’ Believes Aaron Rodgers Will Return To Green Bay Next Season, The NBA Got Destroyed In Their All-Star Ratings And It’s Their Own Fault, Bronny James, Not A 5-Star Recruit, Goes In Top 10 Of ESPN’s Latest 2024 Mock Draft, and San Diego Padres Owner Doesn’t Care About Money, ‘We’re Here To Win A Title’
Power Line: Today on the ‘Dump Biden’ Beat, The Price of Bidenflation, and Remembering the indispensable man
Shark Tank: DeSantis Supports Fully Defunding Planned Parenthood
Shot In The Dark: The Sikh Face Of White Supremacy, Believe In Miracles, and Ripped From The Headlines Of Pop Junk Culture
The Political Hat: Utah vs. Diversity Statements
This Ain’t Hell: Ah, those trustworthy mullahs, Iran’s activities in the Persian Gulf area has everyone’s attention, VMI Alum Defy Woke Policy, and Pentagon Tells Military Members to Stop Eating Poppy Seeds
Transterrestrial Musings: Life On Earth, also, Vietnam
Victory Girls: Georgia Jury Leak By Giggly Forewoman Could Tank Trump Prosecution
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Congress Should Pass a Ukrainian Adjustment Act
Watts Up With That: Rank Innumeracy on The Cost of Electricity from Renewables, also, Senator Kennedy Shocks Climate Cultists
Weasel Zippers: DeSantis Hammers NYC Mayor After Criticism, More Than 30 Illinois Public Schools Have No Students Proficient In Math Or Reading, and Kamala Harris Claims Biden “Reduced” Heating, Electricity Costs Amid Inflation Crisis
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Aspiring Rapper Update: 27 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking

Posted on | February 22, 2023 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update: 27 Years in Federal Prison for Sex Trafficking

Aryion Jackson, a/k/a “Yung Corleon”

You can’t spell Houston without “ho,” and Ariyon Jackson specialized in providing the supply to meet the demand:

The judge responsible for sentencing a man who pled guilty to child sex trafficking called his crimes “horrific” but she also said she was “struggling over what the right sentence should be.”
She ultimately sentenced Aryion Jackson, who was an aspiring rapper, to 27 years in prison.
Jackson, according to court testimony, kept 12 girls and women in a house in Houston and trafficked them for sex, forcing them to earn $1,000 a day using drugs, threats, and beatings to get them to comply.

The victims of this “aspiring rapper” were as young as 14, and how many clients did Jackson’s victims have to service in order to yield the required $1,000 daily revenue? “According to court documents, they would work on Bissonnet in Houston, and they would perform sex acts for $100 to $300 each.” So if they got $100 per trick, they had to turn 10 tricks a day to make the minimum, which might mean having sex with more than 200 men per month, and Jackson was forcing girls as young as 14 to do this. “Horrific,” indeed. It is suspected that one of his victims was Kristen Galvan, who was only 15 when she was first arrested turning tricks on Bissonett Street in Houston. She was returned home to her family, but disappeared a few weeks later in January 2020.

Her mother, Robyn Cory, says there have been no new leads on Kristen’s whereabouts and, even as he was being sentenced to 27 years in federal prison, Jackson claimed he didn’t know where she was.

More details from the federal prosecutor’s office:

Jackson is a documented gang member [whose] image appeared on a wanted billboard for aggravated sexual assault. He also had numerous Instagram accounts. In one, he discussed being a pimp and posted images of himself with money and guns.
While in custody, Jackson continued to control several victims through phone calls. He was also caught with cell phones and drugs.

Yeah, while in jail awaiting trial, he was still pimping. But now that he’s going to federal prison, he thinks he’s the victim:

In court [Feb. 14], Jackson cried as he apologized to his victims, and their families, he told the judge he “never had a fair chance in life” and asked the judge for mercy. . . .
Aryion Jackson asked the judge for leniency because of his childhood. [His father Steven] Jackson admits his son’s upbringing was troubling with parents often in prison and according to the judge, Jackson’s mom was a prostitute who was addicted to drugs.
“Yes, I did three terms in and out of prison,” [Steven Jackson] said. “I myself was a product of the crack era. I got influenced early and had him young,” . . .
Aryion Jackson’s mother is also charged with sex trafficking. Her trial begins Wednesday.

So, a drug addict and a prostitute have a child who grows up to become a vicious pimp, but when this leads him to prison — where vicious pimps belong — he cries to the judge that he “never had a fair chance in life.” However, “Yung Corleon” wasn’t crying when he was flashing guns and cash on Instagram, forcing teenage girls to walk the streets turning tricks to supply him with $1,000 a day. And we still don’t know what happened to Kristen Galvan, so spare us the crybaby act, Mr. Aspiring Rapper.

UPDATE: On Instagram, Jackson’s handle was @AryDaMFCrip — which is to say “Ary the [Obscenity] Crip,” and he boasted of association with the “Gas Gang” of East Houston. In 2021, three members of the “Gas Gang,” Morgan Kanu-Bradley, Avery James, and DeAnthony Doucet, were sentenced to federal prison for an attack on undercover drug agents:

On Feb. 17, 2019, undercover federal agents had arranged to purchase narcotics from Doucet at a hotel in Houston. There, Kanu-Bradley, James and Doucet held the agents at gunpoint and stole the money they had for the transaction as well as one of their firearms and phone. The men also beat and stomped on one of agents while he was held at gunpoint.
Afterwards, Kanu-Bradley, James and Doucet all fled the scene. Other authorities on the scene pursued and arrested them.

“AryDaMFCrip” was proud to be part of this crew, and of course, he filled his Instagram profile with pictures like this:

Think about how he got that money.

Now think about him crying in the courtroom.



 

 

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