Violence Against Women Update: Some Cases Are Just So … Unpredictable

Posted on | March 23, 2023 | 1 Comment

Say hello to 40-year-old Robert Castillo, a Minnesota resident who we might guess, based on the prominent tattoo on his neck, is a member of the notorious Latin Kings gang. You might be surprised (but probably not) to learn that in 2001, “Castillo was charged with first-degree assault for stabbing a 22-year-old man in his back, head and neck in Vadnais Heights. Castillo accused the man of telling his girlfriend he’d brought another woman to their apartment complex, according to a criminal complaint.” Gosh, whoever could have guessed that such a fine-looking fellow as Robert Castillo might have a criminal record?

As you recover from your sense of astonishment, brace yourself for the revelation that Castillo’s sister told police that he “had a thing about carrying a knife all the time to protect himself.” You may ask, protect himself from whom? Well, it turns out the police were looking for Castillo — I’m sure this is shocking news to you — because “he had an active Department of Corrections warrant for alleged violations of conditions of his release.” This had nothing to do with the 2001 stabbing incident, however, but rather because he had “received a 10-year sentence” for a 2014 incident in which he assaulted a woman with a hammer.

So let’s add up the clues here:

2001 stabbing a man;
2014 attacking a woman with a hammer;
Warrant for his arrest on probation violation;
Carried a knife all the time “to protect himself”
and
Latin Kings tattoo on his neck.

Keep your heart medication handy, folks, because you might go into cardiac arrest when I tell you that Robert Castillo had been arrested again, and is this time charged with murder after he stabbed his girlfriend 20 times during a Bible study at his sister’s home:

Castillo’s sister, who lives at the residence, told police they host Bible study at the home every Tuesday night and Woodhull and Castillo came over for it. They “were acting normally” and Castillo held Woodhull’s hand and kissed her, the complaint said.
They’d been at the home for about 90 minutes before the stabbing and Castillo’s brother also said he hadn’t seen “signs of hostility.” When he returned from the bathroom, he saw Castillo standing over Woodhull with a knife in his hand.
Castillo’s sister said she saw Castillo stab Woodhull with a hunting knife with a 6-inch blade. . . .
While police were taking Castillo to jail Tuesday, he asked an officer, “Is she going to be OK?,” according to the complaint. . . .
When police told Castillo that Woodhull died, he said, “No, she didn’t,” and shook his head in disbelief.

We’re all shaking our heads in disbelief. Who could have predicted that this guy was capable of stabbing a woman to death?

Feminists, who love to lecture us about “violence against women,” have said nothing about this case, for some reason.

Category: Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 03.22.23

Posted on | March 23, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.22.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Earned myself a week in Twitmo for calling Governor Hairgel a demented cretin. I need to be spending less time in that sewer anyway.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Not even your waifus are safe from this perv.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Destruction Of California
EBL: Mayor Pete You Better Watch Your Speed, also, Trump Grand Jury Session Abruptly Cancelled?
Twitchy: Stanford Law DEI Dean On Leave After Failing To Uphold Free Speech Policy, “Dr.” Jill Leaves Cryptic Message On Sleepy Joe’s Shaving Mirror, and Florida School District’s “Donuts & Drag” Event Cancelled After Call From DeSantis Administration
Louder With Crowder: “F***ing arrest me”, Groom exposes bride for cheating on him, airs incriminating video during their wedding ceremony, and Football coach fired for praying on the field gets his job back and is $1.7 million richer
Vox Popoli: Clown World Law, Russia Backs Chinese Reunification, and Plot Twist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why the Paleos Were Right About Iraq, also, Showdown at the Lavra
American Greatness: House Judiciary Committee Says ‘No Legitimate Basis’ for Biden Administration to Target Parents Protesting School Boards, Biden Administration Attempting to Bail Out Moderna, and Joe Biden Is Guilty Of Foul Deeds
American Thinker: Philosophy Professor Says ‘Don’t go to College! Become an Electrician.’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Venezuela’s 21st Century Socialism: Ferraris and starving children, Mexico’s AMLO: Friend or foe?, and As Cubans suffer food shortages, Cuban dictatorship launches agricultural fair
BattleSwarm: Russia’s Rolling Tank Museum
Behind The Black: Virgin Orbit resumes limited operations, Russia’s Luna-25 unmanned lunar lander to be delivered to Vostochny in early June, Confused glaciers in a Martian crater, Hakuto-R1 enters lunar orbit, and Pushback: Doctors blacklisted by government for disagreeing on its COVID mandate policies now fighting back
Cafe Hayek: Revisionist History?, also, Getting 19th-century American Economic History Right
CDR Salamander: Japan Puts A Marker Down In Europe
Da Tech Guy: “Allen Bragg is an Asshole” is not a Reason to Vote Trump in the Primaries
Don Surber: Indicting Trump Is Jumping The Shark,
Gates Of Vienna: Chained to the New Trivium, Vaccine Roulette, Part 2, It Really is a Landslide Victory, and Swedish Court – Police Went Too Far When They Prevented a Koran-Burning
The Geller Report: Democrat Deep State Is Building A Vast Surveillance And Speech Suppression Web Around Every American, also, Biden’s Pentagon to Send Tanks, Missiles to Ukraine on FASTER Timeline As Red China Works For Peace
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Jupiter and the Galilean Moons, and I’m So Old
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Time to Honor D-Day’s’ Boys of Bedford, John Wick: Chapter 4 Shows Series Isn’t Dead (Yet), ‘Greatest Lie’ Silenced by Woke Mob, Media Silent, and Tom MacDonald & John Rich Crush iTunes Chart with ‘End of the World’
The Lid: Whaddayaknow? Joe Signed Off on Hunter/Burisma Statement
Legal Insurrection: FBI Mole Known as ‘One-Eye’ Would Tip Off Hunter About Any China Probes, ‘Derisive, Divisive and Demoralizing Misogyny’, Stanford Law Diversity Dean Placed On Leave, Student Disrupters Will Be Re-Educated Not Disciplined, Biden Administration to Use California as Tool to Smash Existence of Diesel Trucks In The U.S., and Challenges to New York’s End Run Around SCOTUS 2nd Amendment Ruling Argued At Second Circuit
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Brit’s view of the constitution of the United States of America (3)
Outkick: Spencer Rattler Spites Oklahoma Fans With Hope That Sooners Won’t Claim Him As Their Own When He Reaches NFL, Tom Brady, Gisele Split Had Nothing To Do With Football, She Says, Oregon Coach Unloads Fiery Rant About NIT Attendance, ‘World’s Hottest Speed Skater’ Jutta Leerdam Takes Her Off-Season Workouts Under Water, and Bikini Cowgirl Claps Back At Haters Who Say She’s An Inbred
Power Line: Liberals, Stop Trying to Keep Black Kids Down!, Ramirez on the Stanford disgrace, and Comer in shadows
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Democrats For “Assault Weapons”!
Shark Tank: Florida AG Moody Busts $400 Million Medicaid Fraud Case
Shot In The Dark: As Predicted, also, When Reality Is Absurd Parody Is Pointless
The Political Hat: Ohio vs. Diversity Statements
This Ain’t Hell: Newsom pressured to give $360K reparations per, American military to have additional access in the Philippines, Defend the Guard Act, and Three More Accounted For
Transterrestrial Musings: Safety Third, It Should Be Safe To Be Unpopular, and What If All The Presidents
Victory Girls: CBO Suggests Means Testing And Taxing Veterans Disability Payments, MAGA “Christians” Compare Trump to Jesus, and ‘Drag is holy’? Christ is Not A Sock Puppet
Volokh Conspiracy: Alito: “I went to a law school where I didn’t learn any law.”
Watts Up With That: Help Save the Planet – Eat Lentils, also, A Requiem for Blueberries
Weasel Zippers: Liberal Dem Rep. DeLauro Admits Inflation “Killing People,” “People Do Live Paycheck To Paycheck” Under Biden, Biden EPA Wants $375 Million For “Environmental Justice Program”, and Occasional Cortex Horrified Over Rumor She Held A Military Recruitment Fair
The Federalist: The Bipartisan Iraq War Revisionists Are Dead Wrong On Ukraine, How Public Schools’ ‘Equity’ Policies Make It Impossible For Students To Succeed, Biden Admin Plans To Raze Native American Religious Site To Benefit Foreign Mining Group, The Bipartisan Rail Safety Bill Is A Reasonable Response To East Palestine Crisis, and New Video Shows ‘Socio-Emotional Learning’ Fanatics Confirming This Popular School Tool Is A Leftist Trojan Horse
Mark Steyn: The Criminalization of Political Opposition

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The COVID-19 Fetish Community

Posted on | March 22, 2023 | 3 Comments

John Hoge blogged about the person pictured above with the headline “I’m Not Making This Up, You Know,” and yet at first, I didn’t believe it. Surely, I thought, this must be some kind of satire — a 4chan troll, a parody of extreme COVID-19 paranoia. But then I checked her Twitter timeline and discovered that (a) not only is she real, but (b) she’s part of an online hive of thousands of viral panic-mongers. These people are hoarders of bad news, obsessed with the phenomenon of “long COVID,” and convinced that the pandemic isn’t over yet. Three years since we began “15 days to slow the spread,” followed by “30 days to flatten the curve,” some people still can’t let it go. They’re addicted to fear.

Well, the good news is: I’m not dead yet. And since you’re reading this, obviously, you’re not dead, either. Back in September 2021, I got the Moderna vaccine, because I didn’t want to give the “Lockdown Forever” crowd any excuse to cite me as a statistic of “vaccine resistance.” The virus didn’t kill me, and the vaccine didn’t kill me, either, but when they started promoting COVID-19 booster shots, I was like, “Hold up there.”

All these new variants kept being reported — Delta, Omicron, etc. — and we were told that we needed more shots to fight the new variants. Meanwhile, there were reports of so-called “breakthrough” cases, where people got COVID-19 despite their prior vaccinations, even as there was talk of making the vaccine mandatory, and it was just about this time that I began to suspect it was all a racket. The push for 100% vaccination and even mandatory boosters was really about profits for Big Pharma.

Far be it from me to spread “misinformation” or “conspiracy theories,” but when an industry lobbies government to make their products mandatory? Wake up and smell the corruption.

Probably a lot of other people reached a similar conclusion, but regardless of whether they see the mandatory vaccine campaign as a Big Pharma scam, nearly everybody agrees: It’s over.

No more lockdowns. No more masks. No more panic-inspired testing of people every time they come down with a case of the sniffles.

We’re done with that, and we’re not going back, ever.

Raise your hand if you never once got tested for COVID-19.

See, that’s the dividing line. Over the past three years, I had one or two mild colds, but a couple of days of a runny nose and a cough never inspired me to rush out and get tested for COVID-19. For all I know, any one of those might have been a COVID-19 case, but if so, it wasn’t too much for my immune system. And since we’re talking about “The Science,” is there any reason to believe that the Wuhan lab was able to mutate the virus to such an extent to render normal human immune responses completely ineffective? Is mere exposure to the virus an automatic death sentence? Or is it the case, as I suspect, that most reasonably healthy people who were exposed to the Wuhan bug never experienced severe symptoms, never got tested, never sought medical care, and recovered without ever being counted as a COVID-19 case?

Excuse me for exercising what used to be called “common sense,” a trait that seems to have become much less common. At the core of the COVID-19 panic was a bunch of hypochondriacs, people vulnerable to suggestion, who became obsessed with the virus in the same way that some people develop sexual fetishes about high-heeled shoes, leather, or whatever.

The Internet allows these COVID-19 fetishes to find each other online, to form social-media cliques that turn into echo chambers where it’s 24/7 gloom-and-doom — all fear, all the time. Inside these online echo-chambers, the hypochondriacs feed each other news items — the latest research findings, etc. — that feed their irrational paranoia about the Deadly Super-Virus From Hell. It’s a sort of religious cult, where the voices of common sense are condemned as heresy. In a way, it’s a mirror-image of the cult of extreme anti-vaxxers, a place where True Believers seize upon anecdotal evidence that “proves” their point of view. Yes, there is such a thing as “long COVID,” and yes, some people die from bad vaccine reactions, but as a matter of statistical probability, you’re very unlikely to be affected by either of these phenomena.

It’s like “police brutality.” No matter how many times we’re confronted with claims that racist police have murdered an innocent black man, we know that (a) such cases are statistically rare, (b) cops are more likely to be killed by black criminals than the other way around, and (c) the “activists” who seek to turn every such case into an excuse to riot are motivated by hatred, greed and a lust for political power. Knowing the facts is the only way to protect yourself from being manipulated by these dishonest “activists” and their unscrupulous media henchmen.

How is this not a Woody Allen movie https://t.co/XRG7Gzb4gM

— Small Fringe Shoshi ?????? (@shoshido) March 22, 2023

What is to be done about the COVID-19 fetishists, like this lunatic woman with her science-fiction-movie protective gear? Mockery, yes, but other than that, we need to keep a watchful eye on these people for the simple reason that they’re crazy and, as you know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: Science

In The Mailbox: 03.21.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.21.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trump Indictment Wednesday? Arraignment Next Week?, Kleo, and Luther: The Fallen Sun
Twitchy: Schiff-For-Brains Ranting At Trump About Rule Of Law Goes Badly, Scholarship App Wants To Know If Your Sexual Identity Is LGBT Or Ally, and Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) Mixes It Up With The Federalist’s Sean “Neville Chamberlain” Davis Over Ukraine
Louder With Crowder: “It’s About Fear”, Mystery pooper drops deuce right by Hillary Clinton as she attempts to enjoy a Broadway Play, and “I don’t have to be nice to you”
Vox Popoli: Do Your Part, This is What Deflation Looks Like, Short-Selling 101, Never Going to be the Same, and The Wages of Clown World

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: To Play is To Lose
American Conservative: Presumptive Neoconservatives, also, A Criminal President
American Greatness: Wyoming Passes Bill to Ban Men from Women’s Sports, Becoming 19th State Overall to Do So, CNN Reporters Robbed in San Francisco While Covering City’s Crime Spike, and Donald Trump, Regime Foe
American Thinker: Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Trump Arrest News
Babalu Blog: Cuban player defects in Miami after team’s loss in World Baseball Classic, Reports from Cuba: A beating of home runs and posters for Cuban baseball team in Miami, and Cuban dictatorship uses 10-minute blackouts to constantly interrupt viewing of U.S.-Cuba baseball game
BattleSwarm: France’s Existential Crisis, also, Faster, Traxxas! Kill! Kill!
Behind The Black: A verde valley on Mars, South Korean private rocket startup completes first suborbital rocket test, Today’s blacklisted American: Vermont’s organization of principals bans Christian school for being Christian, and Pushback? University of North Carolina pretends to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ requirements in hiring
Cafe Hayek: Getting Adam Smith Right, also, History Is Not Optional
CDR Salamander: 60-Minutes Does our Navy – and the Nation – a Solid. I’ll take the “W.”
Chicago Boyz: Bay Area Day Trips and the Computer History Museum
Da Tech Guy: The left hates the word “woke,” which is why we must use it more often, Five “Let’s Get Trump” Thoughts Under the Fedora, One Amusing Point Concerning A Potential Trump Arrest, and Musings on Medicare
Dana Loesch: No One Cares How You Have Sex, also, The Art Of “Munich-ing”
Don Surber: No One Is Safe From Lefty Loons,
First Street Journal: ‘Progressive’ San Francisco defense attorney who wants to be District Attorney thinks people should just suck it up and accept crime to live in the city
Gates Of Vienna: Ukrainian Nazism, Kanakengeld, Keep ’Em Out!, and Vaccine Roulette
The Geller Report: Dutch Farmers Battle Climate Tyranny Win Shock Election Victory
Glenn Reynolds: It Should Be Safe To Be Unpopular
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Universe. All of It, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Brandemic Lets Bawdy Brit Shred Lockdowns, Crowder Returns, Brings Rebel Comics with Him for Mug Club Revival, Ted Lasso White House Visit Proves Woke Is a Joke (Again), and Hollywood Reporter (Purposely) Misses Point on Drag Queen Outrage
The Lid: WOKE CRAZY: Whites Who Drink Coffee Are Racists
Legal Insurrection: Minnesota Anti-Capitalist Teacher Loves it When Students ‘Have No Respect for Authority’ Treatment of Judge by Stanford Law Students is Only the Latest Embarrassment to Taint the School, Federal Grant Worth $5.7 Million Given to Professors to Develop Misinformation Tool, Republicans Slam Biden Over Veto of ‘Bipartisan’ ESG Bill, and Border Crisis: Encounters Hit 1 Million in FY2023, More Chinese Nationals Crossing Into U.S.
Nebraska Energy Observer: More of the same, also, Canaries in the coal mine
Outkick: Paige Spiranac Shows Off March Madness Bracket Busters, Which Personalities Could ESPN Fire During Upcoming Layoffs?, Nick Saban Suspends Freshman After Arrest, Says ‘Wrong Place … Wrong Time’ Is Not An Excuse In Possible Dig At Alabama Basketball, Shohei Ohtani Bests Mike Trout, Team USA As Japan Wins Tense WBC Championship, and Record NCAA Tournament TV Ratings Show Fans Love Watching Basketball – Just Not The NBA
Power Line: DeSantis Takes Off the Gloves, Tony Bobulinski comments, and Down With College
Shark Tank: Republicans Take Victory Lap After Jacksonville Election Results
Shot In The Dark: Inhuman, Defined, Continuous Learning, and Metaphor Alert
The Political Hat: University Of Central Florida: Woke Segregation
This Ain’t Hell: Norks claim about 800,000 signed up to fight America, Army calls the law on woman’s Facebook post, Coronado gate runner was an off-duty deputy, and Navy Secretary declares climate change as top priority
Victory Girls: DeSantis to Trump: You’re On Your Own
Volokh Conspiracy: Cert. Petition on the First Amendment and Coercive Government Threats in NRA v. Vullo
Watts Up With That: IPCC Issues their Annual Final Climate Warning, also, Biden Uses His First Veto to Sacrifice Americans’ Retirement Savings at The Altar Of ESG
Weasel Zippers: San Jose Sharks Goalie Refuses To Wear Pride-Themed Jersey, Biden Treasury Secretary Declares “Economy Is Doing Well,” Ignores Inflation Crisis, Biden HHS Chief Brags About Creating “Environmental Justice Office” At Health Dept, and Biden Tells Weird Joke: “When You Head To Mars, You Won’t Take Jill. She’d Be Gone For Too Long”
The Federalist: White Race Grifter DiAngelo Says Blacks Should ‘Get Away From White People’, Craigslist Craig Funded The Censorship-Industrial Complex To Silence Dissent Online, Cornyn Attacks Federalist CEO For Criticizing Cornyn’s War Propaganda, The Silicon Valley Bank Bailout Sends Exactly The Wrong Message And Endangers The Economy, and Ohio, Iowa Withdraw From Democrat Operative-Controlled Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Group ERIC
Mark Steyn: The Mark Steyn Show – Monday to Thursday(ish)

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Hiding In Plain Sight: Jeanette Jennings and Transgender Munchausen by Proxy

Posted on | March 21, 2023 | 3 Comments

Jeanette Jennings and her failed experiment, ‘Jazz’

Megan Fox of PJM has a rather too-detailed-for-comfort story about the tragic reality TV star “Jazz” (née Jared) Jennings. Let’s just say that the poster girl for transgenderism, who first appeared on the cable show I Am Jazz at age 14, is not happy with the results of his/“her” transition.

Really, there was no precedent for what was done to this child, except perhaps the experiments of Doctor Mengele. The use of so-called “puberty blockers” (synthetic hormones) at an early age to prevent the normal process of maturation — well, who had ever heard of such thing? Undergoing “gender reassignment” surgery at age 17 — gosh, what could possibly go wrong? Trust me, you don’t want to know the answer.

Jazz Jennings has had numerous “sex change” surgeries and has been on countless hormones. She reveals: “I just want to feel like myself. All I want is to be happy and feel like me, and I don’t feel like me, ever.”

This is the sad reality of transitioning. pic.twitter.com/K9JBhGAoNL

— Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) March 16, 2023

“Jazz Jennings” is the victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, and the perpetrator of this atrocity is his/“her” mother, Jeanette. (By the way, the surname “Jennings” is a pseudonym.) Some day, maybe, if the world regains its sanity, psychologists will study this case as a textbook example of how manipulative neurotic mothers ruin their children’s lives. That this was done publicly — as an entertainment spectacle to enrich TV executives — makes it even worse. Megan Fox summarizes the saga:

Jazz didn’t make any of these decisions. Nothing that was done to him — from living his entire life on a reality show for the entertainment of the mob to being rushed into irreversible surgery — was done in private. Every fight with siblings, every argument with parents, and every embarrassing moment have been broadcast for the world to gape at. He can’t even go out with friends at age 21 without his mother tracking him down to check on him. Jazz missed his first semester at college because he was so mentally unwell.
If I could talk to Jazz, I would first hug him and tell him how sorry I am that the adults in his family, his medical team, and this country didn’t stand up for the child we all watched go through this heinous reality. What kind of monsters are we? Were the executives at TLC so blinded by money that none of them asked themselves, “what happens if this backfires and we destroy this kid?”
Jazz has been used in an unforgivable way as the face of a movement that he didn’t even understand and still might not fully grasp. He’s a show pony, a cause, a public experiment done for the entertainment of some and the political goals of others.

There must be a shortage of millstones in Broward County.

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 03.21.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | March 21, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.21.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was just one of those days yesterday – sleep schedule was AFU and I just didn’t feel well all day. Today’s a little better.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Heavy Metal Makes You A Happier Person
EBL: Barbie, Ode to KFC: Axis of Awesome, and Fatbody Alexander Vindman – Ukraine War Profiteer?
Twitchy: So Many Journalists Hoping To Cover Pro-Trump Riot In NYC, It Turned Into The Spiderman Meme, also, Governor Hairgel Wants Diesel Trucks Phased Out To Save The Glaciers
Louder With Crowder: TikToker’s cat slaps the virtue signaling out of her mouth when she declares her pronouns, also, Steven Crowder Leads With More Than 58,000 Presale Paying Subscribers
Vox Popoli: Bank Contagion, Boomer Shock, Vaccine Denial, and That Will Not Shock the World
Stoic Observations: Lovecraftian Tonic
Gab News: The Regime’s War To Make Memes Illegal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Chosen – Updated
American Conservative: And the Winner Is, also, The War by Women
American Greatness: What Happened to Stanford?, also, Media Outlets, Tech Companies, and Democratic Politicians Benefited from SVB Bailout
American Thinker: A Gigantic Egg All Over Brad Raffensperger’s Face, Government Tyrants Play with Fire, and 3 years ago American Thinker was the first to call out the fraud of Dr. Anthony Fauci and was viciously attacked by the WaPo, NYT other MSM outlets
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Santiago de Cuba officials say they have no resources to combat bedbug epidemic, France donates 98 tons of powdered milk for thousands of severely anemic Cuban children, and Team USA destroys Team Castro 14-2 at the World Baseball Classic
BattleSwarm: 1911 vs. 2011, also, Something About Credit Suisse
Behind The Black: Blobs and jellyfish in space
Cafe Hayek: Getting Comparative Advantage Straight, also, Reality Isn’t Optional, Exhibit #79,201,096e28
CDR Salamander: Preliminary Notice to CDR Salamander OG Blog Readers, also, Episode 650: Keeping America’s Dominance at Sea with Jerry Hendrix
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading and Viewing
Da Tech Guy: Navy’s abortion policy is a hot mess, Draft for my 1996 League (With a Thumbs Up from Curt Schilling), and Two Predictions one Nastier than the other
Dana Loesch: On The Leaked Trump Indictment & Rumored Arrest,
Don Surber: Highlights Of [Last] Week, Winning The Woke War, and Avenatti Says There’s No Case Against Trump
First Street Journal: The Feds admit it: they are trying to force guilty pleas by the Capitol kerfufflers through intimidation
Gates Of Vienna: The Vax Damage Lottery, The Lebanon of Central Europe, and Archbishop Viganò: “What We Need is an Anti-Globalist Alliance”
The Geller Report: Biden Treasury Secretary’s Policy Destroys Small US Banks While Bailing Out Chinese Depositors, Experts Say, also, Soros DA Alvin Bragg Wants President Trump Handcuffed and Perp Walked
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Messier 55, You Can’t See This From Here, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: The Cure Bosses Springsteen Around with Ticketmaster Victory, also, What Is Woke? One Sound Bite Can’t Capture It All
The Lid: Fact-Checker Finds Biden’s Economic Lie
Legal Insurrection: Iowa Board of Regents Suspends DEI Policies in Higher Education, LA Times’ Hot Take on Banking Crisis: It’s a ‘Blessing in Disguise’, Latest Twitter Files Shows Stanford’s “Virality Project” Flagged Real Covid Science as ‘Disinformation’, U.S. Navy’s Priority in 2023? Climate Change, and DeSantis Forms Alliance Of 19 Governors To Combat Biden’s Economy-Crushing ESG Obsession
Nebraska Energy Observer: Laetare Sunday, also, Saturday … just for you
Outkick: Deion Sanders Forces Colorado Players To Wear Blank Jerseys – ‘We Ain’t Giving You Nothing’, Virginia Slugger Completely Disrespects N.C. State With Violent Bat Spike After Moonshot, Gets Walked Off 30 Minutes Later, Trish Stratus Returning To WWE, WrestleMania, UFC Octagon Girls Arianny Celeste And Brittney Palmer Hit The Beach, and MSNBC Columnist Says Mets Fans Are Upset Edwin Díaz Is Lost For The Season Due To Colonialism
Power Line: The Conservative Case for San Francisco’s Reparations Plan, Inside Stanford’s disgrace: Judge Duncan speaks, Young Woman Messes with a Police Officer; Karma Comes Quickly, and The three percent fabrication
Shark Tank: Rubio Slams Cuban Baseball Team Controversy
Shot In The Dark: Dog Whistle, also, Who’s The Boss
This Ain’t Hell: Thousands of dollars of kickbacks results in prison time for VA medical center manager, Veterans in the News, AL Post Commander Accused, Verlon James – Fake Navy SEAL, and Body fat assessment exempted for Soldiers who score at least 540 points on Army Combat Fitness Test
Transterrestrial Musings: WW II And The Red Army, Russia’s Space Program, and Fauci
Victory Girls: Democrats Want Protests If Trump Is Arrested – Don’t Fall For It, also, Robin DiAngelo Says Exactly What Scott Adams Said, But Isn’t Racist?
Volokh Conspiracy: Do the 5th and 14th Amendments Impose Equivalent Due Process Limits on Court Jurisdiction?
Watts Up With That: The Humanitarian Horror That ‘Electrify Everything’ Would Unleash, also, A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible
Weasel Zippers: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Attempts To Claim Dems Were “Bipartisan” When They Were In Charge, 16 People On FBI’s Terror Watch-List Arrested At U.S. Border, and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) Outraged That Conservatives “Hate” Progressive Government, Politics
The Federalist: How Ditching Social Norms Guarantees Failure, Not Freedom, How Biden’s Social Security Demagoguery Is Stoking Inflation, From 2008 To The SVB Bailout, New Documentary Traces The Fed’s Same Old Recklessness, and Why Is The New York Times Urging America To Buddy Up With Communist China?
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman: God Writes Back, also, There Be Monsters: The Bug-Out Fantasy of Tremors

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The Answer Is ‘Yes’

Posted on | March 21, 2023 | 2 Comments

Chris Rock’s question was rhetorical:

In light of the recent news that Donald Trump might face indictment for an alleged campaign finance violation, several experts have come forward to criticize the case against him. Some have argued that the charges are weak, while others have pointed out the hypocrisy of Trump’s potential arrest, given that Hillary Clinton faced a similar accusation but only paid a fine. . . .
Chris Rock made his statement at the Mark Twain Prize ceremony at the Kennedy Center, which was honoring Adam Sandler. In an apparent dig at the politicians in attendance at the ceremony, he asked the crowd if they were “stupid” for contemplating such a move.
He exclaimed, “Are you guys really going to arrest Trump? Do you know this is only going to make him more popular? It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?” The comedian’s remarks were met with roaring laughter from the crowd that included the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Biden administration officials.

Here’s the thing: If Democrats could “elect” Joe Biden as president — because 81 million votes, am I right? — and install the brain-damaged John Fetterman in the Senate, they don’t fear any political consequences, no matter how extreme their behavior. Success in rigging elections, combined with the news media’s willingness to act as Democratic operatives as bylines, means that Democrats never expect to face consequences, for anything, ever. We shall see if trying to prosecute Trump on the basis of a case that helped send Michael Avenatti to prison will prove to be an exception to this rule. Stay tuned . . .

Category: Corruption, Democrats, Donald Trump

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Olga Kurylenko

Posted on | March 20, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Born in 1979 in Berdyansk, in what was then the Soviet Union and is now Ukraine, Olga moved to Paris at the age of 16 to start her modeling career and ten years later began acting, finding success two years later in the video game movie Hitman and later as Bond Girl Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace. More recently, she’s been in Black Widow and The Death of Stalin as Maria Yudina.
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