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Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?

Posted on | January 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?

The two most important things to know about “Tunnel Girl” a/k/a “Kala Engineer” are (a) she’s not an engineer and (b) she’s not a girl, either. For some reason — perhaps TikTok has a policy against “transphobia” — nobody has pointed out the (b) part of that, even though “Kala” used the #transition hashtag on this video. But now “she” is headline news:

Influencer excavating massive tunnel 22 feet beneath her Virginia home ordered to stop
A TikToker known as “Tunnel Girl” for her unpermitted tunnel digging project at her suburban Washington, DC home has been slapped with an order to abandon the elaborate project due to “potential violations.”
“Kala the science girl” has amassed a half million followers while documenting the excavation of an underground tunnel system leading to a storm shelter off the side of her basement in Herndon, Va. since October of 2022.
Kala, who uses the handles @kalaengineer and @engineer.everything, has gradually shown her viewers the progression of a tunnel system that leads to a “sub-basement” chamber 22 feet below ground.
The Herculean effort entailed cutting through concrete, mining sediment, installing an elevator shaft to evacuate a thousand pounds of rocks up at a time, pumping out water, installing electricity and ventilation and dealing with setbacks like partial collapses and fires.
Part of her channel’s appeal seems rooted in her idiosyncratic presentation.
The woman claims to be an office worker by day and speaks in a robotic monotone voice while donning fashionable outfits, heavy makeup and manicured nails as she demonstrates her highly complex and dangerous home improvement project.
She works on the massive undertaking by herself in her videos, many of which appear to have been shot by someone else.
On Dec. 28, Kala posted a heavily-produced clip that showed her getting a visit from city officials who shut down the big dig.
“They did give me a stop work order and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer,” she told viewers.
“Fortunately contrary to rumors here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house and it shouldn’t be too hard to get the permits and approval.”

The bit about the “robotic monotone voice” is what tipped me off that “Kala” is actually male. Also, clearly on the autism spectrum.

It would be one thing, I suppose, to dig a giant tunnel under your own home if you lived in a rural area. But this home is on a quarter-acre lot in a subdivision in the Northern Virginia suburbs of D.C. When the excavation struck ground water — holy crap! — it had clearly become unsafe, and a potential threat to the community. “Kala” may believe that it “shouldn’t be too hard” to get a permit to continue this insane project, but then again “Kala” shows a general tendency toward irrational beliefs.

The real scandal, though: What’s gone wrong at KiwiFarms that here you have an obvious psychotranny engaged in dangerous activity for TikTok clicks and there’s no “lolcow” thread for her? Do better, guys.

UPDATE: ‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better That Mainstream Journalism



 

Category: The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

RETVRN

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Michigan beats Alabama in Rose Bowl OT, Washington beats Texas in Sugar Bowl, The Night Manager, and Isabella Maria DeLuca Makes Brown Butter Carmel Cake
Twitchy: Jamaal Bowman Sounds The Alarm To Protect Plagiarists, Kurt Schlichter Obliterates Rachel Bitecofer For Attacking His Military Service, and AP Highlights “New Conservative Weapon” Against Colleges, Gets Wrecked 
Louder With Crowder: Hot Mic Catches ABC Anchor Saying Higher Ups Made Her Ditch the Epstein Story, Dave Chappelle drops brilliant trans joke on new Netflix special “The Dreamer,” but the handicapped get it worse, Elon Musk ROASTS Green Day’s embarrassing anti-MAGA pandering with “American Idiot” performance, and Watch: Biden Admin Space Force Lt. Colonel Claims Inclusion Is Totally A “National Security Imperative”
Vox Popoli: By Any Means, Libertarians and Clown World, A Tale of Two “Nationalisms”, The RCC Funds Mass Migration, and The USA’s Army of Illegals

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: ‘Be All You Can Be’ and the TikTok Mutiny
American Greatness: The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border, also,  Over 230 Active Service Members and Veterans Sign Open Letter Calling For Accountability From Military Leaders Over COVID Misconduct
American Thinker: Let’s Stop Using the Words: ‘Trump Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Vibrating Pills News
Babalu Blog: A sumptuous New Year’s Eve buffet for foreign tourists in Cuba while Cubans went hungry, Nearly 6,000 protests in Cuba in 2023, and Cuban dictator Raul Castro makes rare public appearance, vows he’s not going anywhere
BattleSwarm: Stephen Fry: Antisemitism Is Wrong And All People Are Brothers. Woke Mob: Die Zionist Scumbag, Cartel Gunbattle Just South Of U.S. Border, and Dave Chappelle Takes On Transexual Madness Again
Behind The Black: The global launch industry in 2023: A record third year in a row of growth, with dark clouds lurking
Da Tech Guy: The great migration continues, also, Pushback Under the Fedora
First Street Journal: Property rights are simply not respected in Philly, also, Another two bite the dust!
The Geller Report: Convicted Election Ballot Harvester Gloria Torres Appointed Vice-Mayor in San Luis, Arizona, EVIL CLOWN SHOW: WH Press Secretary claims “It is shameful” to send illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, and Serial Plagiarist and Liar Harvard President Claudine Gay FINALLY Resigns
Hollywood In Toto: The Less You Know About All of Us Strangers, the Better, The Best of the Rest: 2023 TV Highlights Worth Revisiting, Chappelle’s Dreamer Review – No Retreat, No Surrender, Chappelle Co-Creator: Doing Show Today Would Be ‘Pain in the A**’, and Bill Engvall Shares Shocking Truth Behind Retirement
Legal Insurrection:  The Anti-Semitism We See Today Can be Traced to the ‘Anti-Racist’ Left, Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Plays Victim and Blames Racism, Japan Begins Recovery Efforts After New Year’s Day Swarm of Earthquakes, U. Delaware’s New Economics Workshop Covers Taylor Swift, and Rabbi In Harvard Crimson: It’s Time to ‘Confront and Overcome’ Anti-Semitism on Campus
Nebraska Energy Observer: Ultimately
Outkick: NFL Fines Panthers Owner David Tepper $300,000 For Throwing Drink On Fan, Jimmy Kimmel Threatens Legal Action Against Aaron Rodgers After QB Suggests TV Host Is On Epstein Client List, Emotional Rashard Mendenhall Tries To Justify Anti-White Rant, Iowa Coach Shares Blunt Warning For Future Of College Football, Oklahoma Player Viciously Booed By Texas Fans While Being Recognized For Charity Work During Halftime Of Sugar Bowl, and ESPN Boobs Apologize For Showing Boobs During Sugar Bowl
Power Line: Sowell Strikes Back, Exit Claudine Gay, and What Claudine Longet did to Spider Sabich
Shark Tank: Rep. Mills Tells Biden “Shut Down The Border Or Shut Down The Government”
Shot In The Dark:  Amicus Curiae, A Parable For Our Time, and  “Unintended” Consequences
This Ain’t Hell: Iranian destroyer to Red Sea. Y’all play nice, now
Transterrestrial Musings: In Which Trump Is A Fool, Steamboat Willy, and Two Weeks To Trial
Victory Girls: Harvard’s Claudine Gay Out As President – Win For Sanity
Volokh Conspiracy: In This House We Believe in Keeping People Safe
Watts Up With That: Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up, also, The Climate Movement Suffered A Slew Of Defeats And Setbacks In 2023
The Federalist: Why SCOTUS Will Likely Smack Down Two Of Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Charges As Non-Crimes, Report: U.S. Sets Record For Most Single-Month Illegal Encounters At The Southern Border, After Veto Siding With Trans Lobby, Ohio Voters Should Transition Mike DeWine Out Of Office, New York Times Laments House Republicans Didn’t Ram Through Enough Big-Government Legislation, and We Should Think About Rome — But Not For Her Glories
Mark Steyn: Two Weeks to Trial

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Pouncing? Yes, But Also Seizing: GOP Gets Credit for Resignation of Harvard University’s Plagiarist President

Posted on | January 3, 2024 | Comments Off on Pouncing? Yes, But Also Seizing: GOP Gets Credit for Resignation of Harvard University’s Plagiarist President

Speaking on behalf of the “far right,” I must express our collective gratitude to the media for recognizing our work. Strange as it might seem, some journalists apparently believe it’s a bad thing to force the president of Harvard University to resign amid a plagiarism scandal, which followed close on the heels of Claudine Gay’s failure to condemn anti-Semitism. It was not anything that Gay did wrong, they tell us, but rather “a conservative-stoked firestorm” that brought her down:

Gay served a total of just six months as university president, the shortest tenure in the school’s nearly four-century-long history. She was the first Black person and just the second woman to lead Harvard. . . .
Gay received national scrutiny in December when she, MIT president Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee about their responses to incidents of antisemitism on their campuses.
Committee Chair Elise Stefanik asked the university presidents whether students chanting “intifada” violated the schools’ codes of conduct. Each president said it would depend on the context, with Gay pointing out that chants she finds “personally abhorrent” could still be protected under freedom of speech.
But the video clip that went viral — thanks to the right — showed the university presidents stumbling after Stefanik asked whether calls for genocide against the Jewish people should be forbidden, leaving out the longer disingenuous line of questioning.

See? It was a “disingenuous line of questioning” that provoked the Harvard president to defend the right of students to call for the genocide of Jews, and “thanks to the right,” the video went viral.

You’re welcome, America. To quote Treacher’s Law: “When a Republican screws up, that’s the story. When a Democrat screws up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.” When the media tries to make the story about Republicans “seizing” and “pouncing” on a controversy, you know it’s about maintaining a narrative in which the GOP is always the villain, no matter how egregious the Democrat behavior in question may be. Hunter Biden makes millions of dollars peddling his father’s influence to shady foreigners, but if you watch CNN, the story is about how those mean Republicans are taking advantage of Hunter’s “struggles” with addiction.

“Republicans claim victory for Harvard president’s resignation” is the Politico headline, which is their way of telling their readership that this is a very bad thing those mean Republicans have done. Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has compiled a stack of reactions to the Harvard scandal.

Ace of Spades also has a round-up, emphasizing that Gay’s plagiarism was not minor or trivial. In fact, it was so clumsy and widespread in her work that it’s hard to believe she didn’t get caught at the time she published the articles but . . . Uh, “the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb,” you might say. And I really don’t need to say much more, because I’m sure our “far right” commenters will have plenty to say on how it was that this academic fraud made it all the way to the presidency of Harvard.



 

Category: Scandal, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

In The Mailbox: 01.02.24

Posted on | January 3, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.02.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I had a pretty good 2023, actually. 
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Happy New Year, ya filthy animals. 

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ford’s Mustang Mach-E’s Software Update Bricks Your Car, also, Good Guys 1 Bad Guys 0
EBL: Lieutenant Dan Happy New Year, The Boys in the Boat, The Holdovers, Tom Smothers RIP*, and Slow Horses
Twitchy: Keith Boykin Demands Equal Scrutiny For All College Presidents & Twitter Agrees, Saira Rao “Genuinely Terrified” By “Zionist” Doctors Treating Black & Muslim Patients, and Nikole Hannah-Jones Reacts To Claudine Gay’s Resignation As Only She Can
Louder With Crowder: “I Will Not Project Colonial Concepts On My Dog”, Sanctuary City Mayors Warn Cities Will Collapse Due To Biden Border Crisis, Delta employee has NO patience for trans activist harassing him over pronouns, puts activist in its place, and Trudeau’s conservative opponent declares he’ll “defund the media” with a smile and to thunderous applause
Vox Popoli: Dead Internet to Fake Internet, The Consequences of Rejecting Truth, An Unexpected Hitler, Sykes-Picot is Dead, and Welcome to 2024
T.L. Davis: We Are Not One [h/t Loyal Reader B.E.]

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: I pray for the Sword, Christ is Born! Glorify Him! and The purposeful discord sown by the ambiguous Vatican on fag couples
American Conservative: The Sources of American Estrangement, The Path to a ‘Dormant NATO’, and An Admiral’s Augury
American Greatness: The Constitution Absolutely Prohibits Nikki Haley From Being President Or Vice President, Why Trump Is Correct About Presidential Immunity, Bidenomics Bogosity Will Unravel In 2024, and Erasing Trump from 2024 Ballot Is an Inside-the-Beltway Job
American Thinker: The Real Reason Trump is a Threat, Our Awakening Terrifies the Left, Happy New Year, Anyway, and The Great Taking: You Really No Longer Own Your Securities, and You Could Also Lose Your Freedom
Animal Magnetism: Happy New Year’s Eve! also, Happy 2024!
Babalu Blog: Some Cubans greet 2024 by burning an effigy of ‘president’ Díaz-Canel, Sixty-five years of communism and destruction in Cuba, Mexico gives Biden the finger, and Guyana requests 200 slave nurses from Cuba despite invasion threat by Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Another Case Of That Democratic Party Voting Fraud That Doesn’t Exist, Illegal Immigration Crisis Reordering French Politics, LinkSwarm For December 29, and Old And Busted: Botched Software Update Bricks Your PC. The New Hotness: Botched Software Update Bricks Your Car
Behind The Black: First Juno images of Io from December 30th fly-by, India completes first launch of 2024, and Republicans propose another deep state bureaucracy to enforce civil rights laws
CDR Salamander: DDG to FFG to OPV – Small Ships, Big Sticks, & Scaled Escalation
Chicago Boyz: New Year’s Eve 2023
Da Tech Guy: The Best Advice I can give to Start a Year, New Year New Indulgence Calendar, Illinois conservatives, start planning now for the 2028 constitutional convention vote, and DaTechGuy’s Top 5 Posts of 2023
Don Surber: It’s what they don’t say that matters
First Street Journal: Once again, The Philadelphia Inquirer pegs the irony meter, SEPTA wants more tax dollars, but just a $1.00 fare increase would wipe out their deficit, The only way to end protests which stop traffic is to not stop traffic for protesters,  and An uplifting story in the Lexington Herald-Leader
Gates Of Vienna: Europe Looks Forward to 2024, A Green Holodomor for Germany? The Islamization of Spain is Unstoppable, A Calvary in the 8th Arrondissement, and The Rebirth of the Ottoman Empire
The Geller Report: World Ignores Muslims Butchering and Slaughtering Christians “For Sport” in Nigeria, 50,000 and Counting, Unhinged Muslims Attack Jewish Family in New Jersey, Massive NYPD Mobilization as Islamic Extremists Block JFK Punishing Travelers So They Can’t Return Home After New Year’s Eve, German Police Foil Islamic Terrorist Attack on the Iconic Cologne Cathedral on New Year’s Eve, Five More Muslims Arrested, and Muslims Attack the Police Across France: Riots, Arson, & Stoning
Glenn Reynolds: Claudine Gay Has Gone Away
Hollywood In Toto: Boys in the Boat Is Everything You Expect (But Somehow Less), Ferrari Races to First Place in Best of 2023 Competition, Ricky Gervais’ Armageddon Drops Atom Bomb on Woke Nation, Why Critical Drinker Avoids the Word ‘Woke’ (When Possible), and The 23 Best Television Shows of 2023
The Lid: How Will Modern Spin Doctors Address The Demise Of America’s Most Famous Eco-Terrorists? also, Is Occasional Cortex Half Right About Bethlehem?
Legal Insurrection: ‘Death to America, Death to Israel’, Portland Facing Shigella Outbreak, Generally Found in Third-World Countries, A Preview of California’s Newest Crime-Related Laws for 2024, Ex-Biden Energy Official Sam Brinton A Free Man Despite Facing Charges for Allegedly Stealing Luggage, The Fight to Stop California Politicians from Enshrining Racism in State’s Constitution, and Biden’s FCC is Adopting New ‘Diversity’ Rules to Take Control of the Internet
Nebraska Energy Observer: New Year – Keep up the Skeer, also, Heroes Still Defend the Dream
Outkick: Michigan Refuses To Go Into Off-Season Drama Just Yet, Defeats Alabama In Dramatic OT, Carolina Panthers Owner David Tepper Appears To Throw Drink On Jaguars Fan, What The Duck? Duck Dynasty Star Willie Robertson Helps Liberty Troll Oregon Ducks With Unique Hype Video, Kirby Smart Sounds Off On ‘Unfortunate’ State Of College Football Following Georgia’s Orange Bowl Blowout Of Florida State, Ravens Honored Ray Rice During Sunday’s Game Against Dolphins, and Heidi Klum Ends 2023 On The Beach Topless
Power Line: Degenerate Animals [Updated], Thoughts from the ammo line, Innocent Civilians? and The Welfare-Industrial Complex
Shark Tank: Luna Warns Of New Migrant Caravan – Says stand-Alone Border Security Bill Needed
Shot In The Dark: The Galling Part Is…
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Marines changing rifle marksmanship training & eliminating Scout Sniper school, A Chinese spy balloon communicated with China via an American internet provider, A year starts with contrasts: LCPL Dural vs. dirtbags, Covid “Declaration of Military Accountability” Letter, and Navy Sinks Houthi Gunboats
Transterrestrial Musings: Happy 2024
Victory Girls: Victory Girls Predictions For 2024: Political And Non-Political, Happy New Year from Victory Girls, and Happy Houthis Year From the Pro-Palestinian Protesters In NYC
Volokh Conspiracy: Disunion, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War, Donald Trump and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and Are Hispanics Following the Path of the Irish?
Watts Up With That: Is the Low Snowpack this Year a Sign of Global Warming? Biden Admin Rolls Out Slew Of Regs Targeting Americans’ Appliances On Last Friday Of The Year, Cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries reaches Alaska, but kept offshore for safety, and Judge Resurrects Zombie Kids’ Climate Case: Expect More Eating of Brains
The Federalist: Minister Of Defense Profiles Both The Player And The Preacher In Reggie White, Aaron Sorkin Is The Real Villain Behind The Senate Sex Scandal, Russell Kirk Warned That Without Virtue, ‘Democracy’ Is A Dead End Here And Abroad, 50 Years Ago, Gulag Archipelago Unveiled A Haunted World, ‘GlitterBomb’ Creator Mark Rober Is Doing More To Foil Crime Than Democrat Cities Like San Francisco, and Barry Sanders’ Humility Is A Quality Modern Athletes Severely Lack
Mark Steyn: They Hate You Too, Not with a Whimper but a Bellow, and Unlucky Lindy: Billy Wilder and The Spirit of St. Louis

*To be honest, I never cared for Tom Smothers. His humor wasn’t funny to me, but he was decent with the yo-yo.

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An Inauspicious New Year

Posted on | January 2, 2024 | Comments Off on An Inauspicious New Year

My brother and I saw it happen — on national TV!

The FBI needs to investigate the crime that happened Monday night in Pasadena, California — a case of identity theft, in which a group of young men claiming to be the University of Alabama football team perpetrated an implausible impersonation of the Crimson Tide. The fraudulent “football team” that took the field at the Rose Bowl looked nothing like the mighty Crimson Tide, which had defeated the defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs 27-24 to win the SEC title.

Let us stipulate that Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe had been inconsistent all season long. His miraculous game-winning TD pass against Auburn — on fourth-and-goal from the 31 — was perhaps divine intervention, or else the Crimson Tide never would have gotten to the national championship playoffs. But the only reason the Auburn game was close enough to require such a last-minute miracle was because Alabama’s offense had been so listless and mistake-prone, committing 72 yards of penalties and converting only six of 16 third downs.

Nevertheless, having survived that scare, the Crimson Tide were more impressive against Georgia in the SEC title game, mounting two lengthy first-half drives to take a 17-7 lead at halftime, and then holding off the Bulldogs in the second half. While I wasn’t confident about Milroe and the offense going into Monday night’s game, I felt like ’Bama could rely on its defense, which had proved itself sturdy.

My brother Kirby and I went to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the playoff game against Michigan, and were ecstatic when a muffed punt return by the Wolverines set up a touchdown that gave the Crimson Tide a 7-0 lead.

Alas, the Alabama defense — or I should say, the identity thieves impersonating the Alabama defense — let Michigan march right down the field to tie the game, and I began to fret, which required me to order another Yuengling (for medicinal reasons, a treatment prescribed by my Samoan attorney as the cure for fretting). Michigan had a 13-10 lead at halftime, and I ordered the All-American Cheeseburger (which isn’t prescribed treatment for anything, but Bert the Samoan attorney assures me it’s still a tax-deductible business expense). During the third quarter, Alabama kept Michigan pinned down deep in their own end of the field, and then mounted a 55-yard drive that ended in a touchdown that gave the Crimson Tide a 14-13 lead early in the fourth quarter. Alabama later added a field to go up 20-13 with 4:41 left to play and I thought to myself, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner.” Surely now the Alabama defense would choke the life out of the Wolverines, and we’d be onto the national championship game. But as I say, the “Alabama defense” were obviously a crew of impostors, who had somehow sneaked onto the team bus in an elaborate conspiracy. For all we know, the real Alabama defense is still being held hostage somewhere in Pasadena. Why isn’t the FBI investigating this crime? Or is the FBI part of the cover-up? Probably the CIA’s in on it, too, not to mention the Bavarian Illuminati.

The criminal conspiracy resulted in Michigan scoring a touchdown that tied the game at 20, requiring overtime (and also requiring me to order another Yuengling, on advice from my Samoan attorney) during which the San Andreas Fault suddenly erupted in a cataclysmic earthquake and the entire state of California collapsed into the Pacific Ocean.

Wait a minute. Let me check my notes . . .

No, the cataclysmic earthquake was what I wished would have happened, instead of what actually did happen, which is a permanent stain on the hitherto honorable reputation of the state of Alabama.

So, 2023 was a bad year — R.I.P., John Hoge — and 2024 has gotten off to an inauspicious start, which I now intend to forget ever happened. (“Game? What game? Why are you asking me these questions?”)

It’s been three whole years since the last time Alabama won a national championship. I blame Joe Biden. And also the Bavarian Illuminati.

My brother picked up the tab at Buffalo Wild Wings, which somehow makes me feel even worse. The only thing that can cheer me up is if you’ll remember The Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!




 

Category: Football

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

Posted on | January 1, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Actually, it’s been Reiwa 4 for a while now.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Goodbye 2023 Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Is Right For Girls With Guns, Auld Lang Syne, MAGA Maine Democrat Fix, The Dollyrots, Nikki Haley, Wonka, “Precious”, Caroline Werner, Leave The World Behind, Yoko Swifto? The Feast Of Seven Fishes, and Kissing Santa

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Alexa Collins, Yes, They’re Coming for Your Burgers, Fish Pic Friday – Kristina Carlson, Gone Fishing’, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, DNR on the Watch for Cold Turtles, Flotsam and Jetsam on Boxing Day, TattooTuesday, Christmas songs 3 4 5, Merry Christmas!, Christmas Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Flotsam and Jetsam on Christmas Eve Morn, Palm Sunday and Biden Chops Old Growth Logging

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for December 29, In Mammoriam 2023, 2023 Big Booty Award, and Milkers Of The Year

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule Five Saturday – Patriotic Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links! More to come next year!

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FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow

Posted on | December 31, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I haven’t listened to my lengthy collection of Conelrad electronica in a while, so this weekend I’m making up for lost time. He seems to have pulled his music off Amazon, but the whole catalog seems to be on YouTube now. If you’re looking for chill, relaxing electronic music with a bit of Cold War ambience, this is right up your alley.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

One of the first Conelrad releases.

‘Corporate Profit’ and the Political Ideas That Are Driving America’s Crime Wave
The Daley Gator
Flappr
EBL
Average Bubba
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach






Rule 5 Sunday: Santa, Baby!
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
EBL
Average Bubba
A View From The Beach

‘Oh, We’re Halfway There’
The Daley Gator
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Meth-Crazed Lesbian Dies in Proverbial Hail of Gunfire; No Charges for Cops
EBL

Ex-NFL Player: ‘Average White Guys’ Shouldn’t Be Talking About Football
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Our Annual Rogers Hornsby Moment
EBL
A View From The Beach

 

 

NYC Maniac Turned Loose So He Could Stab Two Girls in Grand Central Station
The Daley Gator
EBL
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‘Teens Arrested’

Posted on | December 31, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Teens Arrested’

After reading a story about a recent murder, the idea occurred to me, why not just Google “teens arrested”? One of the first news stories I saw was the case from Charlotte, North Carolina, where five teens in a stolen Dodge Charger led police on a high-speed pursuit Thursday afternoon. The youthful miscreants were ages 14-16:

Police said they are serial offenders and had racked up at least 84 charges between them before Thursday’s arrest. Several of the teens were linked to multiple vehicle break-ins, police said.

A stolen firearm was found in the vehicle. Anyway, I continued my Google search and here is a sampling of recent headlines:

Four teens arrested in connection
to the murder of a 17-year-old in November
— KNXV-TV, Phoenix, Dec. 20

3 teens arrested
in string of armed robberies
across San Diego County
— KNSD-TV, San Diego, Dec. 18

Two teens arrested after fight breaks out
at Southern Park Mall
— WFMJ-TV, Youngstown, Ohio, Dec. 27

10 teens arrested in 2 carjacking rings
— WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., Dec. 11

5 teens charged in violent beating
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
— CBS News, Dec. 19

Four arrested, including three teens,
for carjacking in Baltimore County
— WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Dec. 5

3 teens arrested after assaulting,
carjacking 72-year-old woman
in Bethesda: police
— WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C., Dec. 13

5 teens arrested after crashing
stolen vehicle into patrol cars
at downtown apartment parking garage
— KSAT-TV, San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 19

Four teens arrested after Little Rock
traffic stop leads to seizure
of six guns, 42 grams of marijuana
— KARK-TV, Little Rock, Arkansas, Dec. 22

Metro police: 3 teens caught
with 2 stolen cars, 6 guns, 19 key fobs
— WKRN-TV, Nashville, Dec. 28

So much high-spirited adolescent hijinks! So many mischievous young scamps! Stealing cars, stealing guns, shootings, beatings, armed robberies — typical fun for American teens! With few exceptions, the news media never identify these fun-loving youngsters by name, but when they do . . . Well, it’s ain’t Amish kids, OK? Consider this recent report about some Florida teens celebrating the festive holiday season:

Two brothers, 14 and 15, face murder charges after an argument over who was getting more presents led to a shooting that killed their sister — a mother of two — on Christmas Eve.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the “family spat” began Sunday during a shopping trip in Largo. When the family returned to the home of the boys’ grandmother in the 2300 block of 22nd Avenue Southwest, the teens were still arguing.
Standing in the kitchen, Damarcus Coley, 14, pulled out a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun and aimed it at his brother, 15-year-old Darcus Coley, threatening to shoot him in the head, Gualtieri said.
The teens’ uncle separated the boys, telling Damarcus to step outside. Gualtieri said a neighbor’s outdoor camera captured audio of their sister, Abrielle Baldwin, 23, as she tried to intervene.
“You all need to leave that stuff alone. Why are you trying to start it? It’s Christmas,” Baldwin told her younger brother, Gualtieri said.
At about 1:45 p.m., Damarcus yelled threats at Baldwin and then shot her in the chest, Gualtieri said. The round went through her left arm before puncturing her lungs. At the time, Baldwin was holding her 10-month-old baby, who was not injured, Gualtieri said.
After hearing the gunshot, Darcus ran outside, screaming about how Damarcus had shot their sister.
Eight seconds after the fatal shot rang out, Darcus fired a round at his brother with his own .45 caliber pistol, Gualtieri said. The 15-year-old threw his gun in a neighbor’s yard and ran to a relative’s home in Clearwater, where deputies later arrested him, Gualtieri said. Darcus made statements about self-harm and was taken to a mental health facility.
Baldwin was taken to Largo Medical Center, where she died. She was also the mother of a 6-year-old boy.
Damarcus was taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery. Gualtieri said later will be moved to a juvenile detention center.
“This is what happens when you’ve got young delinquents and they carry guns,” Gualtieri told reporters. “They get upset, they don’t know how to handle stuff, so they just pick up their guns and start shooting each other.”
Damarcus Coley is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse and being a minor in possession of a firearm.
Darcus Coley is charged with attempted first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence. . . .
Family members told investigators the two boys routinely carried guns. . . .
Damarcus’ arrest history dates back to when he was 12. He previously has been charged with vehicle theft, battery on a school employee and battery on a law enforcement officer, Gualtieri said. He said both brothers were arrested in May for multiple car burglaries and both have previous juvenile charges for being a minor in possession of a firearm.
Gualtieri said he believes both guns used in Sunday’s shooting were likely stolen from unlocked cars.

This case has been widely commented upon, but as I watched the video of Sheriff Gualtieri’s press conference, I noticed something that nobody else in the media seemed to notice. He stated that the victim, Abrielle Baldwin, was born May 5, 2000. He further noted that the mother of the victim (who is also the mother of the Coley brothers) was born June 25, 1984. Apparently nobody else bothered to do the basic arithmetic here: Abrielle was born when her mother was only 15 years old and, given that Abrielle’s oldest child is 6 years old, this means that she became a mother at age 17. Abrielle’s mother became a grandmother when she was no older than 33. Am I the only one who perceives this as relevant?

Also, notice that Abrielle and the Coley brothers have different surnames, indicating they were sired by different baby-daddies, none of whom are named as attendees at the festive family holiday gathering. Teenage mothers and absentee fathers would seem to be normative in this community. Also: “Family members told investigators the two boys routinely carried guns.” Routinely! If your 14-year-old was “routinely” carrying a pistol, wouldn’t this be a cause of parental concern? One kid’s got a .40-cal, the other’s packing a .45, both guns were likely stolen during the multiple burglaries perpetrated by the Coley brothers, but nobody in the family did anything about it until, of course, the festive holiday was celebrated with gunfire. Youthful hijinks!

Speaking of the Idiot-in-Chief:

Biden’s Crime Problem: Violent Crime
Is Down, but Voters Don’t Believe It

Yes, this year, many police agencies will report a record decrease in crime, made possible because crime was so completely out of control after the 2020 George Floyd riots, with many cities setting homicide records in 2021 and 2022. But a decline from a historic peak does not return America to the level of public safety the nation had before the summer of “fiery but mostly peaceful protests.” Furthermore, one reason for the reduction in crime is that law-abiding citizens just got the hell out of Democrat-controlled cities, and learned to avoid areas where teenage criminals — excuse me, I mean, urban youth — pose a constant threat to life and property. If you’ve sold your city home and moved to the countryside — hunkered down in a rural bunker, protected by guard dogs and video surveillance — you probably don’t feel a lot of gratitude to President Biden for your circumstances. You damned deplorable!



 

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