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FMJRA 2.0: Dr. Destructo

Posted on | March 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Dr. Destructo

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week’s SOTD is from the soundtrack to the James Caan movie Thief, one of the movies directed by Michael Mann that eventually earned him a shot at making Miami Vice. It’s a dark movie about an ex-con jewel thief trying to go straight who gets dragged back into crime by the Chicago mob. The last track, “Igneous”, was used in the trailer for The Warriors.
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CPAC 2023: Why Not This Guy?
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

CPAC 2023: Trump Is Still the Big Dog
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

CPAC 2023: ‘Media Logistics’ & A Strange Memo From the National Affairs Desk
Legal Insurrection
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Too Much Too Young
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

It’s Almost as If Freddie deBoer Never Read ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Amberleigh West
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

It Can’t Happen Here
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.06.23
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

J6 Videos Shatter ‘Insurrection’ Narrative
First Street Journal
Nebraska Energy Observer
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

News From Down Home: Another Antifa Riot, More Out-of-Towners Arrested
Okrahead
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.07.23
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.08.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

3 Cops Shot, Suspect Dead in L.A.
The DaleyGator
EBL

The Antifa Scum in Atlanta
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.09.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Devin McCourty Retires!
Okrahead
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.10.2023
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

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Idiot Democrat From Houston Doesn’t Have the Faintest Clue Who Bari Weiss Is

Posted on | March 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

How is it that you get yourself elected to Congress and appointed to an important committee, but can’t be bothered to familiarize yourself with the subject matter of a major hearing? If the voters of the 29th District of Texas have any capacity for reflection — notice the word “if” in that phrase — they should be wondering what the hell Rep. Sylvia Garcia was doing last week instead of preparing for the Judiciary subcommittee hearing in which Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified about their “Twitter files” reporting. Look at that screen shot: Do you see Garcia scrutinizing her notes, which were probably prepared for her by some 26-year-old staffer? Garcia is 72 years old, and perhaps she doesn’t spend much time on Twitter. She’s a busy woman, and doesn’t have time to follow every little spat on social media. We can understand that.

What is less understandable is that Garcia doesn’t know who Bari Weiss is. This became obvious when Garcia was questioning Shellenberger — an environmental journalist who has recently gotten fed up with his “progressive” comrades — about how he got involved with Twitter:

“In… in your discussion — in your answer, you also said that you were invited by a friend, Bari Weiss?” Garcia asked, already sounding confused, as if she had no idea what she was even questioning the witnesses about.
“My friend, Bari Weiss,” Shellenberger repeated for clarity.
“So this friend works for Twitter? Or, what is, what is her, ummm—”
“She’s a journalist,” Taibbi explained, much to the irritation of Garcia, who probably should have known who Bari Weiss was before participating in the hearing.
“Sir, I didn’t ask you a question,” Garcia snapped. “I’m now asking Mr. Shellenberger a question.”
At this point, Taibbi and Shellenberger both start to laugh. I suspect they were more than just a little amused at Garcia’s cluelessness regarding the subject matter she was questioning them about.
“Yes, ma’am, Bari Weiss is a journalist,” Shellenberger interjected.
“I’m sorry, sir,”
“She’s a journalist,” Shellenberger repeated.
“She’s a journalist, so you work in concert with her?”
It was a rather dumb question, but Shellenberger eventually, after pondering it for a few seconds, responded in the affirmative.
“Do you know when she first, uhhh, was contacted by Mr. Musk?” Garcia asked.
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know,” she echoed. “So you’re in this as a threesome?”

Bari Weiss is certainly not an obscure figure, but maybe Garcia can’t figure out how to use Google to find a Wikipedia page.

Like her Democratic colleagues on the subcommittee, Garcia seemed to be trying to promote a narrative that there must be some kind of sinister conspiracy behind the production of the “Twitter files” stories, so that by questioning how Taibbi and Shellenberger became involved, she was “exposing” something relevant. In fact, of course, this was just a diversion, a way of trying to deflect and distract attention from the content of what Taibbi and Shellenberger have reported about how government agencies pressured Twitter to censor and suppress information on the platform. Trump Derangement Syndrome has destroyed whatever modicum of good sense Democrats ever had.

Ed Driscoll quotes Taibbi talking about how Brooklyn Rep. Dan Goldman — viewed as a “rising star” in his party — spent part of his allotted time in the committee trying to claim that mere accusations of “Russian interference” made by former special counsel Robert Mueller are tantamount to proof of such interference:

The irony is that what Goldman was doing, confusing accusations with proof — as Thomas Jefferson said, the phenomenon of people whose “suspicions may be evidence” — was the entire reason for the hearing. Michael and I were trying to describe a system that wants to bypass proof and proceed to punishment, a radical idea that this new breed of Democrat embraces. I think they justify this using the Sam Harris argument, that in pursuit of suppressing Trump, anything is justified. But by removing or disrespecting the rights to which Americans are accustomed, you make opposition movements like Trump’s, you don’t stop them.

Which is to say, “If you want more Trump, this is how you get more Trump.” This danger seems to be invisible to Democrats, as Taibbi suggests. How is it that we can see it, but they can’t? The former FBI director filed indictments against 12 named members of Russian military intelligence, asserting that they “engaged in a sustained effort to hack into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and released that information on the internet under the names ‘DCLeaks’ and ‘Guccifer 2.0’ and through another entity.” Maybe this actually happened, but (a) the indictment does not prove that it happened, besides which (b) any prosecutor can proverbially “indict a ham sandwich,” and also rather conveniently (c) there has not been, nor is there ever likely to be, an actual arrest and trial in such a case, because (d) Russia is never in a million years going to turn over their intelligence agents to U.S. law enforcement.

But don’t bother citing facts or arguing logic to Democrats. They have their beliefs — “Russian collusion” is as important to their belief system as the resurrection of Jesus is to Christianity — and any effort to dissuade them of this political theology is a waste of time and energy.



 

 

Category: Congress

Death of a ‘Sovereign Citizen’

Posted on | March 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Death of a ‘Sovereign Citizen’

Chase Allen, shortly before his predictable death

How many times do I have to repeat myself? I keep saying Crazy People Are Dangerous and yet, despite my warnings, the craziness continues.

The SPLC refers to the “Sovereign Citizens Movement,” but since when is psychosis a political agenda? Nevertheless, I’ll quote the SPLC:

The contemporary sovereign belief system is based on a decades-old conspiracy theory. Sovereigns believe that the American government set up by the founding fathers, under a common-law legal system, was secretly replaced. They think the replacement government swapped common law for admiralty law, which is the law of the sea and international commerce.
Some sovereigns believe this perfidious change occurred during the Civil War, while others blame the events of 1933, when the U.S. abandoned the gold standard. Either way, they stake their lives and livelihoods on the idea that U.S. judges and lawyers, who they believe are foreign agents, know about this hidden government takeover but argue against it, denying the sovereigns’ motions and filings out of treasonous loyalty to hidden and malevolent government forces.

These people are daft, deranged, demented, berserk, bonkers, off their rockers, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

“Sovereign citizen ideology . . . experienced a resurgence in popularity during the pandemic,” it is claimed, and as to why this “resurgence” happened, probably it’s because emotionally vulnerable people had lots of spare time and started binge-watching YouTube videos by kooks who told them, “Naw, you don’t need no driver’s license! Don’t need none of them tags on your truck, neither! It’s the global elites trying to control you with their so-called ‘traffic laws’!” This is what it always seems to come down to — cops pull over a guy with a bogus tag on his car, and the guy claims he doesn’t have to answer any questions, etc.

Why traffic laws? Answer me this question. Of all the legislation on the books to which anyone might conceivably object, why is it that these “sovereign citizens” decide they’re going to rebel against allegedly corrupt authorities by disregarding traffic laws? Could the craziness of this “movement” be any more self-evident? I don’t think so.

This is what Chase Allan of Farmington, Utah, looked like before he got all wacko with this “sovereign citizen” nonsense, which led directly to his death last week:

Allan, 25, was pulled over in the parking lot of the Farmington post office March 1 after an officer noticed an illegitimate license plate on the back of his car, which was not registered. At the time, it was considered a routine traffic stop, Farmington police Chief Eric Johnsen has said.
In the body camera footage released during a police news conference Wednesday, Allan can be heard telling the officer who approaches his car, “I don’t need registration and I don’t answer questions.” The officer then called for backup, and four more officers headed to the scene.
Police have said Allan initially refused to provide any identification to the officer and “asserted his independence from the laws of the land.”
In the footage, Allan can be heard saying he is “not giving [the officer] jurisdiction” over him, adding that the officer is not allowed to stop him. Allan can be seen holding up his phone during the traffic stop, appearing to record the officer as they interact.
The body camera footage shows Allan eventually hand the officer his passport, but he does not provide a driver license. After backup arrives at the scene, an officer orders Allan to step out of the vehicle, but he refuses, stating that he is “not required to.”
As police again order Allan to step out of the car, Allan can be heard saying, “If you try and force me, then we’re going to have an issue.”
“If you don’t step out of the car, then we’re going to break the window and pull you out,” an officer can be heard replying.
Seconds after that reply, officers appear to force Allan’s driver’s side door open, the footage shows. Almost immediately, as an officer leans over Allan, an officer can be heard shouting that Allan has a gun.
A barrage of gunfire can then be heard in the footage, as officers open fire for about five seconds while simultaneously stepping away from the vehicle, the footage shows.

You can click here to watch the whole video. I sent it to one of my sons in a text message, saying the “sovereign citizen” died in a hail of gunfire — as they all should. Which is both (a) my habitual sarcasm, but also (b) actually true. I mean, if armed kooks are going to drive around with no tags on their cars and start trouble whenever the cops pull them over, this craziness is basically self-inflicted genocide. And guess what?

NOBODY’S GOING TO LOOT WALMART IN YOUR HONOR.

White people getting shot by cops? Nobody cares. Ben Crump ain’t going to show up and “demand justice.” You’re white, you f**ked with the cops, now you’re dead, and nobody cares. This idiot Chase Allan is every bit as dead as George Floyd, but white people aren’t tearing down statues or smashing windows downtown. CNN’s not going 24/7 with updates on the story. Joe Biden isn’t commenting. None of the things are happening that would have happened if Chase Allan was black. There’s some kind of lesson here, and what is that lesson? Crazy People Are Dangerous



 

 

Category: Crime, Utah

In The Mailbox: 03.10.2023

Posted on | March 11, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.10.2023

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Today’s job market.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Alligators In Your Backyard
EBL: Bullet Train, Chris Rock Responds About Will Smith, and Robert Blake, RIP
Twitchy: Nikki Fried’s Attempt To Slam Ron DeSantis Over “Book Banning” Is The Self-Own Of The Year, also, Jane Fonda Says Call To Murder Pro-Life Republicans Was “Obviously In Jest”
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe barbecues troll who tagged him in ‘fraud’ meme accusing him of s***ing on college graduates, Jane Fonda casually calls for the murder of pro-lifers live on national television, and Matt Taibbi shuts down Democrat questioning his journalistic integrity so hard she won’t look at him
Vox Popoli: One Can’t Call Them Traitors, EVERYTHING is Fake and Gay, First Domino Down, Sans Comment, and The Reward for Virtue-Signaling
According To Hoyt: Coming Apart, Running Away, and It’s Another Of Those Days
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 E9: Supporter Spectacular (Round 7)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Liberte, Egalite, Natalite—or Not, also, On ‘Right-Wing Liberation Theology’
American Greatness: Biden Budget to Fund ‘Transgender’ Treatments for Veterans, Study: Average American IQ is Declining for the First Time in a Century, and Joe Biden: ‘MAGA Republicans Are Calling For Defunding the Police Department’

American Thinker: Prevent Federal Overreach by Empowering the States, America’s March of Folly in Ukraine, and The Deadly Incompetence of our Leadership
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Civil War Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba to host ‘peace talks’ between Colombian government and Cuba-sponsored Marxist ELN terrorists, Reports from Cuba: State-run media blames Major League players for Cuba’s defeats in the Classic, Copycat video of Cubans on horse-drawn cart at Hialeah McDonald’s drive-through goes viral, and State Security arrests Cuban YouTuber, then releases her after fines and threats
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for March 10
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 4C rocket launches two Earth observation satellites, Biden administration proposes more budget increases for NASA, Russia considering bringing Soyuz launched on February 23rd home earlier, House subcommittee proposes five bills that would change FCC operations, and Today’s blacklisted American: Mother sued by teacher’s union for requesting her child’s kindergarten curriculum
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Calculated Infliction of Misery, also, Reno Air Race Memories
Da Tech Guy: Everybody Gets to See, even Bernie Thompson!
Don Surber: The Myth Of A Southern Strategy
First Street Journal: WW3 Watch: Plenty of good Americans are advocating sufficient NATO help for Ukraine for them to win the Russo-Ukrainian War, also, The left say they are for democracy, but they’re really not
Gates Of Vienna: A Tribute to the Ignorant Victim
The Geller Report:  Defendant Moves to Dismiss Jan. 6 Case Based on Newly Disclosed Footage, FBI Testimony, Name and Indict the J6 Violent Feds and Antifa Terrorists, and BIDEN’S NEW TAX HELL
Hogewash: The Milky Way, The Best Summary So Far, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Whoopi’s Decree Would Mean the End of The View
The Lid: Does EPA’s New Business Venture Prove Another Old Conspiracy Theory Was True?
Legal Insurrection: Companies Continue Slashing Diversity Jobs Amid Corporate Layoffs, Joe Biden Shamelessly Rewrites History on Who Supports Defunding the Police, ‘Swamp Math’: Treasury Sec. Yellen Comes to the US House After $1.7 Trillion Budget is Released, Stanford Law Students, With Support From Diversity Dean, Shout Down Visiting Appeals Court Judge Because He’s Conservative, and Red China Helps Iran and Saudi Arabia Reestablish Diplomatic Relations
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Bears Trade First-Overall Draft Pick To Carolina Panthers For King’s Ransom, SEC Tournament’s Most Intense Situation Came In Press Room And Not On Court With Alabama’s Nate Oats, Brandon Miller, Vikings Release WR Adam Thielen After 10 Seasons, Team Sends Heartfelt Message To Pro-Bowler, UFC Legend Alleges LeBron James Is On PEDs, Offers No Proof: ‘We Have The Same Drug Guy’, and Denver QB Russell Wilson, Wife Ciara Release Heartfelt Video, Praising The Lord With 300 Maximum Security Inmates
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Are Americans Getting Dumber?, It had to be Q, and Minnesotans to Pay Reparations For Slavery?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Of Cabbages & Kings
Shark Tank: Anna Paulina Luna’s First Bill Tackles Military Sexual Assaults
Shot In The Dark: Isolationists Fighting The World, also, All The Way Down
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Questions about America
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Getting tanks to Ukraine as quickly as possible, The Philippines to publish videos of Chinese activities, and Friday quickies – Iran, author update, tankers lose naming rights
Transterrestrial Musings: Eff You, Why The Ukrainians Will Never Surrender, The Kids Aren’t All Right, and An Open Letter From Naomi Wolf
Victory Girls: Biden Budget: Tax The Rich And No Funding For The Border
Volokh Conspiracy: David Lat on the Stanford Law School’s Disruption of the Speech by Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan, also, If You Get an STD from Sex in Your Lover’s Car, Is That Covered by the Auto Insurance Policy?
Watts Up With That: Renewable Energy Fail, as British Coal Generators Fired Up AGAIN to Cover Shortfalls, CSIRO / USQ: Coffee Supplies Threatened by Climate Change, and Biden Putting Climate Change Agenda Over Energy Security
Weasel Zippers: Biden “Surprised” Republicans Want To Stop Dems’ 87,000 New IRS Agents From Middle Class Shakedown, Kaepernick Accuses His White Adoptive Parents of Being Racist, NY Dem Gov. Hochul Demands That Pharmacy Chains Keep Selling Abortion Drugs, and Kamala Harris: Biden “Has Said He Intends To Run, And If He Runs, I’ll Be Running With Him”
The Federalist: Wisconsin Indian Hostage Crisis Teeters On Violence Because Biden, Tony Evers Do Nothing, The Censorship Complex Isn’t A ‘Tinfoil Hat’ Conspiracy, And The ‘Twitter Files’ Just Dropped More Proof, Biden’s Budget Breakdown: How The Big Government Binge Overtaxes, Overspends, And Overborrows, and In Milwaukee Public Schools, ‘A’ Is For Activism
Mark Steyn: Political Prisoners and Political Crimes

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Devin McCourty Retires!

Posted on | March 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Devin McCourty Retires!

A sad day for New England Patriots fans, as the veteran safety and defensive team captain announced he will retire after 13 years.

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Last month, after special teams captain Matthew Slater announced he would return for his 16th season, fans hoped that this would encourage McCourty — nicknamed “DMac” — to give it another year, but alas, age 35 is ancient by NFL standards, and I guess McCourty felt he needed to hang up the cleats while he was still healthy. Probably this means the Patriots will need to make an offer to cornerback Jonathan Jones, who is a free agent this year and, at age 29, is one of the more senior defensive backs on the New England roster. If DMac had been willing to play another year, perhaps the Patriots could have stood losing Jones, but now? Nah — pay the man, Bill. And, of course, this will affect New England’s priorities in the draft next month. I’d prefer them to take either of Alabama’s safeties — Brian Branch or Jordan Battle — because you can never have too much ’Bama on your roster. At any rate, the secondary will need reinforcements now, although it’s really impossible to replace a veteran leader like McCourty. Best wishes, DMac!



 

 

Category: Football

In The Mailbox: 03.09.23

Posted on | March 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

HEEEERE’S TUCKER!

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2014
EBL: Free Q Anon Shaman Jacob Chansley, Poker Face, and Chaim Topol, RIP
Twitchy: “Real Journalists” Aaron Rupar & Keith Olbermann Dunk On “So-Called” Journalist Matt Taibbi, also, Jim Jordan Makes It Awkward After Democrat Claims “No Actual Evidence” Of Censorship
Louder With Crowder: Will Smith’s “sources” do him dirty, leak to press Chris Rock hurt his feelings, Girl won’t calm down when Taco Bell runs out of her favorite item, puts her hands on the wrong employee, and Whoopi Goldberg Calls For Fox News To Be Shut Down And Employees Prosecuted To Save Democracy
Vox Popoli: White People Wanted, The Temporal Challenge of Gnosodecay, and You Can’t Say I Didn’t Warn You

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Railway Safety: For America and For East Palestine, also, New DHS Report Shows Why You Should Stay Mad
American Greatness: 6,000 Public Schools in the U.S. Hide Students’ Gender Status from Parents, also, White House Gives International Women’s Day Award to Biological Man
American Power: 12 People Have Died After Record Snows in the San Bernardino Mountains, Has Ukraine Exposed the Russian Military as a Paper Tiger?, and Mexican Drug Gang Turns In Members It Blames for Americans’ Deaths
American Thinker: Lies, Damn Lies, and Democrats, There’s Something about MAGA, and Race-Based Hatred Permeates the Black Population
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Walmart News
Babalu Blog: Why do Democrat and Republican senators want to trade with the deadbeat Cuban dictatorship?, Reports from Cuba: Gas rationed in Villa Clara to deal with Cuba’s fuel crisis, North Carolina Congressman denounces visit of Cuban military officials to Wilmington Port, and Shortages in communist Cuba force dentists to extract teeth without anesthesia
BattleSwarm: Truckpocalypse Now
Behind The Black: ISS maneuvers to avoid satellite, Space Force assigns launchpads to four smallsat rocket startups, SpaceX successfully launches 40 OneWeb satellites, Ice volcano in the Martian high northern latitudes?, and Pushback: Texas A&M to stop favoring minorities in hiring & admission policies
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Sports: Old Times Back in Foxborough, The Dutch vs the Sox, The Unintimidating Celtics, the very intimidating Bruins and Seattle to Milwaukee finally, also, Why do so many sit back while so few dismantle the United States?
Don Surber: The Actual Insurrection In DC Went Unpunished
Gates Of Vienna: Geert Wilders: “Close the Borders!”
The Geller Report: Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal a ‘CATASTROPHE” – Marine Breaks Down In Tears Recounting How Higher Ups Ignored His Warnings Before Kabul Airport Bombing, also, Mitch McConnell Hospitalized After Fall At Hotel
Hogewash: A Lonely Galaxy, also, Yep, Journalists (and Bloggers) Protect Our Sources
Hollywood In Toto: Kimmel in Deep Denial Over Oscar Ratings, also, Champions Proves Formulas Still Matter in La La Land
The Lid: Just How Much Does It Cost America To Care For 15+ Million Illegal Immigrants, Anyway?, also, Third Party Qualifies for Ballot Access in Key Swing States
Legal Insurrection: Michigan Right-to-Work Groups Starting the Fight to Protect the Law Passed in 2012, California Should Prioritize Math and Reading Over Ethnic Studies, Biden’s $1.7 Trillion Budget Includes More Money for ICE and Raising Taxes on Those Making Over $400,000, Portland State U. Sex Week Derides the ‘Cult of Virginity’, and Former CDC Director: Fauci ‘Deliberately Ignored’ Requests to Consider Wuhan Lab Leak Claims
Nebraska Energy Observer: You MUST
Outkick: We Now Have Data on Just How Big of a Difference the Pitch Clock Makes, Tiger Woods’ Ex-Girlfriend Erica Herman Wants $30M, Claims She Was ‘Tricked’ Into Leaving His Mansion, Female Powerlifter Is ‘Hurt, Outraged’ Having To Compete Against Biological Men, Deion Sanders Meets With Boulder Police Chief, Poses For All-Smiles Photo, and TCU Basketball’s Eddie Lampkin Jr. ‘Hurt For Real,’ Leaves Program As Mother Alleges Abuse And Racial Remarks By Coach
Power Line: MS. found in National Archives, A lift too far, Tucker Carlson edition, and The Democrats Make War On Twitter [Updated]
Shark Tank: School Choice Bills Gain Momentum In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Social Justice, also, It’s Never What You Think
The Political Hat: The Collapse Of South Africa
This Ain’t Hell: Okinawa governor wants SOFA amended to give Japan the lead to investigate and prosecute, Tragic Testimony, and Just shut down women’s sports. It’s over.
Transterrestrial Musings:  Twitter Hearing Bares Hatred And Ignorance of Democrats, Women Erased On International Women’s Day, and Senators In Both Parties Block DC Crime Bill
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Issues Flawed Decision Striking Down Missouri Gun Sanctuary Law
Watts Up With That: Lauren Boebert on climate and politics at Heartland’s Climate Conference in 2023, also, Met Office Peddles Extreme Rainfall Lies
Weasel Zippers: Biden Claims “MAGA Republicans Are Calling For Defunding The Police”, Kamala Harris Frets Over “Climate Mental Health”, MSNBC’s Joy Reid Blathers: “If It Ain’t White, It Ain’t Right in DeSantistan”, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Doesn’t Want To Hear About The Hurt Inflation Is Doing To American Families
The Federalist: Kevin McCarthy Signs Bill Killing Biden’s ESG Rule For Retirement Plan Investments, If State Monuments Reveal What We’re Made Of, Don’t Mess With Texas, Democrats Desperate To Implement Censorship Regime Disregard Free Speech In Weaponization Hearing, As Biden Plays Political Games On Medicare, Here’s How Republicans Can Respond, and St. Thomas Aquinas Responds To Modern Atheists’ Cartoon Version Of The Creator In ‘What is God?’
Mark Steyn: The Great Walkbackening Picks Up Speed, also, Naomi Wolf on Covid and Control

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The Antifa Scum in Atlanta

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on The Antifa Scum in Atlanta

The “mostly peaceful” mob of Antifa who rioted Sunday at the site of a planned police training center in Atlanta were mostly out-of-state, including this habitual rioter from North Carolina:

Jamie Marsicano, who was booked under the name “James Marsicana,” is a 29-year-old law student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, according to the school’s website.
Marsicano — who identifies as a “white trans femme organizer” in online profiles — was arrested in June 2020 and charged with assault on a government official and resisting a public officer during the George Floyd protests in Charlotte. Those charges were later dropped.
Between June 2020 and September 2020, Marsicano was arrested five times, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Y’know, I’m old enough to remember when drag queens in Atlanta were mainly about lip-syncing show tunes in gay bars, not fire-bombing police.

Accused terrorist Ehret Nottingham

This terrorism suspect is from Colorado:

Ehret Nottingham, 22, is a serial activist who has also taken a central role in pro-abortion and fair wage rallies.
In a interview in June 2020, while studying political science at Colorado State University, Nottingham said he ‘became an activist’ in 2018.
He described himself as a climate activist who was also involved in Black Lives Matter protests. He said he has a ‘whole lot of privilege and a whole lot of ability to affect the world’.
‘The role in my future that I hope to achieve is to be an advocate and the platform I have to make change,’ said Nottingham. He said he met ‘most of my activist friends’ through Instagram.

The ambition to “be an advocate” — where does it come from? Perhaps from the recognition that it’s better than working an actual job, doing something useful and productive to pay the bills.

Accused terrorist Mattia Luini

This terrorism suspect is from New York:

Mattia Luini, 30, and his fellow protesters are accused of carrying out Sunday’s “coordinated attack” on the under-construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which saw cops pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks.
Luini, whose late father, Ivan Luini, helped popularize high-end plastic furniture in the US, was still stuck behind bars as of Tuesday afternoon, online court records showed.
His mother, Micaela Martegani, who is involved in the Big Apple’s art world, told The Post Tuesday that she’d only spoken to her son briefly since his arrest — and that he’d insisted the violent incident was “completely random.”
“We haven’t been able to talk in much detail. He doesn’t know much of what happened,” Martegani said.
Luini had said he was heading to Atlanta over the weekend only to attend a concert and “protest the development of the forest,” according to his mom.
Police, however, say he was among those who allegedly staged an attack to protest the $90 million development of the training center — dubbed “Cop City.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what Luini, who appears to have been raised in New York City, does for a living or if he still calls the Big Apple home.
His businessman father, Ivan, was president of the New York-based Kartell US — a high-end Italian furniture company that specialized in plastic design.
The elder Luini was killed in a small plane crash near the Colorado-Wyoming border back in 2006, the New York Times reported at the time.
Meanwhile, Luini’s mom is the founder and director of More Art — a nonprofit organization that helps create public art projects across the city.
Martegani told The Post on Tuesday she wasn’t sure if she would head to Atlanta to meet with her currently imprisoned son.
“He’s doing okay. I spoke to him recently but I’m not sure yet if I’m going to go down to Atlanta,” she said.
Cops have accused Luini and his fellow protesters of using the “cover of a peaceful protest” at the proposed training center to unleash havoc.
“They changed into black clothing, entered the construction area, and began to throw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police officers,” cops said. “The agitators destroyed multiple pieces of construction equipment by fire and vandalism.”

Degenerate offspring of wealthy capitalists — it’s an all-too-familiar tale in a nation where liberalism has become the religion of the elite.

All these Antifa vermin — the “white trans femme organizer” from North Carolina, the “privileged” climate activist from Colorado, the heir to a furniture fortune from New York — did not just show up in Atlanta coincidentally. Authorities in Georgia are investigating these “mostly peaceful protests” and the individuals involved in organizing them. If you suspect that there is a nationwide criminal conspiracy behind the “Stop Cop City” protests, you are certainly not alone in that suspicion.



 

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Category: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism

3 Cops Shot, Suspect Dead in L.A.

Posted on | March 9, 2023 | Comments Off on 3 Cops Shot, Suspect Dead in L.A.

This news broke overnight:

Three Los Angeles police officers were shot Wednesday evening and the suspected gunman was dead after an ensuing standoff, authorities said.
Officers had gone to Lincoln Heights, an older neighborhood of single-family homes, at around 4:30 p.m. and the shootings were reported about two hours later, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman said.
The officers were hospitalized in stable condition, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted Wednesday night.
Two were patrol officers and the third was a K9 unit officer, Eisenman said.
The LAPD said it began when officers spotted a parolee wanted for an unknown felony and tried to take him into custody, but he ran and hid in a shed.
According to the LAPD, K9 officers responded, found him and launched a “chemical agent” into the shed. The suspect then opened the shed door and began firing at officers, striking three.
Officers returned fire and backed out. It was unclear whether the suspect was hit, CBS Los Angeles reports.
SWAT officers were called and deployed a robot that saw the suspect wasn’t moving. SWAT officers then used a second robot to insert more gas into the shed before officers moved in. The Los Angeles Fire Department determined the suspect was dead.
At one point, the LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert, meaning officers from across the city are available to respond to the scene if needed. Officers, including SWAT team members, flooded into the area and sealed it off.
Some neighbors were evacuated from their homes by officers when the standoff was ongoing, CBS L.A. said, while other residents in the surrounding area were advised to stay inside and lock their doors.
“Everyday the men and women of the Los Angeles Police Department put themselves in harm’s way, tonight is a reminder that the danger is very real,” Mayor Karen Bass said at a news conference, CBS L.A. reported. “I’m relieved and grateful that these three brave officers are in stable condition, and are able to have a conversation with two of them when I checked in on them just now. I deeply appreciate their service and let them know that their city stands with them, and I very much look forward to their recovery.”

Why should police be putting their lives at risk when District Attorney George Gascón goes out of his way to turn criminals loose? What’s the point in arresting criminals, if the D.A. won’t put them in prison? A career prosecutor in the D.A.’s office won a jury verdict of $1.5 million after she sued Gascón for retaliating against her because of her criticisms of his policies. A dozen other similar lawsuits are pending, but the problem in Los Angeles and other major cities cannot be isolated to a few rogue “progressive” prosecutors. The problem is the people — if voters are so stupid and/or immoral as to elect someone like Gascón, they deserve whatever harmful consequences follow that election.



 

 

Category: California, Crime
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