Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

In 2019, Adam Garcia was arrested in Minnesota:

In October 2019 at the University of Minnesota, a student was studying in the medical library at Diehl Hall when he grew uneasy by Garcia watching him. After speaking with security, the student was stabbed in the leg from behind by a hypodermic needle.
The criminal complaint said when police found a man matching the description of the attacker, later identified as Garcia, he pulled out a long knife and fought with officers. One officer was wounded by the knife.
After it was learned Garcia was positive for Hepatitis C, the student and the officer were both prescribed preventative medications. . . .
After that incident, Garcia was temporarily civilly committed with a doctor pointing to “methamphetamine-induced psychotic disorder,” among other mental and chemical dependency disorders. A judge wrote Garcia “poses a substantial likelihood of causing physical harm” as a result.

Despite these grievous felonies, Garcia was discharged from probation in late 2022, just three years later. Nor was this an isolated incident. Garcia has had 46 separate criminal charges in the past five years, and that was before what happened in November:

Authorities have charged a Minneapolis man with murder, alleging he fatally stabbed another man at a bus stop in Edina last week.
Adam Garcia, 32, faces one count of second-degree murder in connection with the killing of 62-year-old Chris Lundegaard, according to court documents filed in Hennepin County. . . .
Edina police officers were at the Cub Foods on York Avenue when the stabbing occurred outside, according to a criminal complaint. They went to the bus stop to investigate and found Lundegaard “bleeding from multiple stab wounds,” the complaint states. Officers attempted to save his life before he was taken to a hospital, where he later died. A medical examiner identified five stab wounds, two to Lundegaard’s chest.
Officers found the suspect, identified as Garcia, at the scene and detained him while they reviewed surveillance video and spoke to witnesses.
The video showed “a confrontation” between Garcia and Lundegaard at the bus stop, the complaint states. Lundegaard tried multiple times to get away from Garcia, but Garcia allegedly would not leave Lundegaard alone. At one point, according to the complaint, there was a “scuffle” between the two that ended with Lundegaard “knocked to the ground.” . . .
Court records show Garcia has a criminal record that includes several convictions over the past four years for burglary, assault, trespassing and property damage.

How was this guy on the street? He should have been in a padded cell, strapped into a straitjacket and given twice daily dose of Thorazine for the rest of his life. What part of “substantial likelihood of causing physical harm” do I need to explain here? And now this:

The suspect in November’s seemingly random, deadly stabbing at an Edina Bus stop was back in court Monday. . . .
Adam Garcia asked the judge for a speedy trial on charges that he murdered Chris Lundegaard the night before Thanksgiving.
But judge Peter Cahill told Garcia, who has a long history of mental health issues, that he will first need to be evaluated to see if he’s competent to stand trial.

Padded cell, straitjacket, etc. This dangerous kook should never be allowed in public again. Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 10, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“In the event of fire – burn.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Creator, Cantonese Scrambled Eggs, and Golda
Twitchy: Are They Bringing Juice Boxes Too? FL D’s Blasted For Complaining That DeSantis Can’t Control The Weather, and Schools Out On Account Of Migrants?
Louder With Crowder: Walmart Becky’s the latest lazy Gen Z worker to whine on TikTok how they can’t afford to live, blames GenXers, Late-night “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel launches seven-minute rant against Aaron Rodgers, Jodie Foster Goes Off On Working With ‘Really Annoying’ Gen Z, and “You’re disrupting traffic, idiots!”
Vox Popoli: Australia Abandons Free Speech, China Sanctions USA, The Coining of the Term: Midwit, The Bochurim Dug Too Deep, and The Lad Protests WAY Too Much
Upstream Reviews: The Super Mario Brothers Movie
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Red Tape Strangles Nuclear Innovation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Francis is not our Enemy – He is a Distraction
American Conservative: ‘It’s Sh*t’: Conservatives Trying to Stave Off Spending and Border Disaster
American Greatness: Judge, Prosecutor, and Defense Lawyer All Agree Ray Epps Is a Victim of MAGA Conspiracy Theories; Gets Probation, No Jail Time
American Thinker: Biden’s ‘America Last’ Policy at Work, also, The Roots of Lawfare
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Street Thug News
Babalu Blog: Former members of Cuba’s Armed Forces call for the ‘overthrow of the current parasitic mafia regime’, Lifestyles of the Rich and Communist: Cuban prime minister’s son vacations in Spain as Cubans go hungry, and Cuban dictatorship announces 500% hike in fuel prices, 25% hike in electric bills
BattleSwarm: Did Israel Just Declare Victory Over Hamas?
Behind The Black: Layered volcanic vent on Mars, Artemis lunar program likely to be delayed further, JPL lays off 100 contractors due to expected budget cuts, UK spaceports to UK government: There’s too much red-tape! and Proposed removal of William Penn statue proves the Democrats really are anti-American
Cafe Hayek: The Case for Free Trade Is NOT ‘Globalist’
CDR Salamander: Did You Order Your PLARF From Wish.com?
Chicago Boyz: The Price Paid for DIE
Da Tech Guy: COVID – Déjà vu all over again, also, Five Jonathan and Jesus Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Harvardicide
Gates Of Vienna: Another Allahu Akhbar Moment in Milan, also, Redbeard Speaks
The Geller Report: Fulton County DA Fani Willis Paid Her Lover $654,000 of Taxpayer Money since January 2022 to Act as Trump Special Prosecutor, Hot Mic Catches Journalists Joking About Trump Assassination, and Reuters, AP Reporters Watched Hamas Lynchings, Kidnappings, Rapes & Urged Civilians to Join
Glenn Reynolds: Clothes Make The Man
Hollywood In Toto: Migration Never Fully Takes Flight, History of the World in Six Glasses Pours Full Glass of Funny, Best of the Wurst – 2023 Movies in Review, Kangaroo Kids Offers Embarrassment of Family-Friendly Riches, and Why Civil War Will Be 2024’s Most Controversial Film
The Lid: America’s Empire Of Money Has Reached The Endgame
Legal Insurrection: House Freedom Caucus Furious Over Johnson-Schumer Spending Deal, Ecuador Declares ‘Internal Armed Conflict’ After Gunmen Storm TV Station, Kidnappings, and Prison Riots, In Stunning About-Face, 9th Circuit Prohibits California from Banning Concealed Carry in Public Places, Ray Epps, the Man Who Told People to Enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, Receives One Year Probation, Report: Mayorkas Admits Over 85% of Illegal Immigrants are Released Into U.S., and Hezbollah’s Top Terror Commander Eliminated in Alleged Israeli Airstrike
Nebraska Energy Observer: Are we being hoodwinked?
Outkick: Titans Move On From Coach Mike Vrabel, Who Instantly Becomes A Top Candidate Elsewhere, ‘Business Is Finished’, John Harbaugh Surprises Brother Jim Harbaugh At National Championship Game, Jimmy Graham Gives Proper Defense of Jameis Winston: ‘F*** the Falcons’, Cutter Gauthier Went From A Prized-Piece Of The Philadelphia Flyers Rebuild To Persona Non Grata In Hours, and A-Maize-ing! Michigan Completes Perfect Season Amid Imperfect Circumstances For 1st National Championship Since 1997
Power Line: Gas Keeps the Lights On, Blame the Bus Company! and Biden Instructs the Press?
Shark Tank: Donalds Calls For Government Shutdown If Border Not Secured
Shot In The Dark: Take The W, also, Ask & Be Answered
STUMP:
The Political Hat:
This Ain’t Hell: Trust programmed vehicles…with your life? Missiles filled with water rather than fuel among reasons for Chinese military leadership purges, Pro-Pali Demonstrators Desecrate Vet Cemetery, and Republican to file articles of impeachment against Lloyd Austin
Transterrestrial Musings: “The Adults are Back In Charge”, If They Can Do It To Trump, California’s Falling Fortunes, Ackman’s War To Make Universities Accountable, and The True Role Of The Central Bank
Victory Girls: Explosive Allegations Against Trump Prosecutor Fani Willis
Volokh Conspiracy: Canada Reverses Blocking of Citizenship for Russian Migrant Convicted of “Crime” of Speaking Out Against Russian Atrocities in Ukraine
Watts Up With That: In Memoriam Professor Ray Bates, Natural Asset Companies: Greenwashing Wolves in Eco-Friendly Wool, and Federal Court Throws Wrench into Biden Admin’s War on Appliances
The Federalist: ‘Punching Down’ At Everyone Makes Dave Chappelle’s New Special A Knockout, The Only School Shootings Corporate Media Don’t Hype Are By Gender-Fluid Murderers, Democrats’ Statue Toppling Is A Dress Rehearsal For Going After Actual People, House Republicans: State Department Hiding Its Funding For Censorship-Industrial Complex, Politicos Who Attacked Tuberville’s Abortion Protest Over ‘Military Readiness’ Are MIA On Defense Sec’s Secret Leave, Ranked-Choice Voting Props Up Unlikeable Karens Like Maine’s Secretary Of State, and China Meddles In Taiwan’s Presidential Election With False Framing About ‘Peace And War’
Mark Steyn: Getting the Message, also, Life and Death in Expertstan

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In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.09.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Started this in the morning, got distracted by other stuff.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Disney Star Wars Prepares To Set Fire To Another $200 Million, also, Let The AI Sludge Flow
EBL: Even The White House did not know where Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Was, Ghosted, Cenk Uygur freaks that Fetterman is turning into a Republican…is Cenk next? Cindy Morgan RIP, and It Comes At Night
Twitchy: Jimmy Kimmel’s Cringe Monologue About Aaron Rodgers Only Makes Things Worse, Techno Fog Drops Bombshell Thread About Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and Calls For SecDef Austin To Resign Are Growing
Louder With Crowder: Pat McAfee calls out BY NAME the ESPN executive “actively trying to sabotage” his show, Why High Value Men Refuse to Date “Boss B*tches”! Viral video shows fully automated McDonalds, a glimpse of the future the Left wants with their minimum wage hikes and Instead of arresting pro-Hamas activists blocking traffic in Jewish neighborhood, police deliver them coffee
Vox Popoli: AI and Truth, Why the Risk is Worth It, The Case for the Gamma Male, Too Satanic for the EU, and The Failure of the Artificial Nation
Upstream Reviews: War Demons
Gab News: The Impact of AI on Christian Leadership

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Firing Mayorkas Must Be Part of Any Budget Deal, also, Evening in America
American Greatness: A Culture in Collapse, From Insurrection to Satire, and Biden’s Valley Forge Stunt Shows the Real Threat to Democracy
American Thinker: How Obama Pulls Biden’s Strings, No Border – Say Goodbye to America, No More J6s, Lloyd Austin at the ICU: A Symptom of a More Serious Malady, and Higher Education: DEI and Cargo Cultism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s new economic restructuring, Half of Cuba’s sugar mills shut down during the current sugarcane harvest, ‘Hell in paradise’: Argentine tourist blasts Cuban luxury hotel, so do some Cubans, and Nicaraguan clergy express concern over health of imprisoned Bishop Rolando Alvarez
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 5, How A Coffee Shortage Almost Ended East Germany, and Bird, Bird, Bird, Bird Isn’t The Word
Behind The Black: Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander suffers major failure, ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully places payload in orbit on first launch, SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, Scientists: Suspended iron minerals floating in Venus’s atmosphere explain dark UV streaks, and Americans push back against government overreach with some real defiance
Cafe Hayek: Is America a Third World Country?
CDR Salamander: The Allied State of Play at Sea – With Kori Schake, also, Restore Factory Settings At The Pentagon
Chicago Boyz: Global, The Truthiness Is Out There, and Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: Raise Your Hand if Trump Turned You Into a Newt During His First Term, A Navy desperate to keep…everybody! Epiphany Sunday, Some facts and Prayers for The Blessings of the Houses, Ouch-ouch: Failures of Latvia’s new electric trains serve as a warning for the rest of us, and Jonathan & Jesus Let’s Talk REAL Pressure
Don Surber: Taming the media
First Street Journal: Journolism: The credentialed media don’t exactly lie, but they conceal politically incorrect facts
Gates Of Vienna: It’s the Religion, Stupid, The Iceman Cometh, Kajal Hindustani: “Jihadis Are Putting a Target Mark on Every Hindu”, “Democracy Completely Contradicts Islam”, and AfD Supporters Must Be Silenced
The Geller Report: Police in Canada Deliver Food and Coffee To Jew-Hating Jihad Protesters Who Are Blocking Highway Overpass, Iran’s Islamic Regime WHIPS Young Woman 74 Times For Not Covering Her Beautiful Hair in Public, and Palestinian Civilians Laughed While They Raped and Butchered Israelis
Hollywood In Toto: Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan, Joe Rogan Shred Woke Critics, Memory’s Gentle Approach Makes It Unforgettable, Joe Rogan Perfectly Defines Comedy 101, and Apolitical Globes Lean Into Gratitude (Not Politics)
The Lid: A Perfect Example of How Left-Wing ‘Journalists’ Lie About the News, also, The Dreyfus Affair, Zola’s J’accuse!, and Antisemitism: Some Things Never Change
Legal Insurrection: George Washington U. Prof Accused of Anti-Semitism Leaves School, Takes New Job in Qatar, Academics Begin to Wonder if Ditching Standardized Tests was a Mistake, Bill Ackman Declares Plagiarism War On MIT After Retaliatory Attacks On His Wife’s Ph.D. Thesis, Mexico Releases List of Unattainable Goals to Help With Immigration, Anti-Israel Protesters Shut Down California State Assembly Session in Sacramento, National Park Service Not Removing William Penn Statue…For Now, and Navajo Nation Demands Delay to Private Mission Placing Human Remains on the Moon
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, The Baptism of our Lord, and The West is Best
Outkick: Draymond Green Says Adam Silver Talked Him Out Of Retiring, Pat McAfee Double Downs On Calling ESPN Boss A ‘Rat’ On ESPN, Magic Johnson Will Help Hire New Commanders Coach, Jameis Winston Explaining Garbage TD Against The Falcons Is Absolutely Hilarious, Arthur Smith Cusses Out Dennis Allen In Postgame Handshake Over Garbage-Time Touchdown, ‘Let’s Do The Right Thing Here’, and Sage Steele Applauds Team USA For Belting Out ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ At World Junior Championship, Torches ESPN For Completely Ignoring It
Power Line: Gavin Escuela, The Race That No One Can Win, Systemically Neutral Law Enforcement, and Harvard Is Still Anti-Semitic
Shark Tank: FL Conservatives Push Online Protection For Minors
Shot In The Dark: Enforcing Public Ordure, In Search Of A Solution, and As The Hungover Indolent Giant Rises & Thinks About Heading To The Gym
The Political Hat: Woke Indoctrination Has Already Been Immanentized
This Ain’t Hell: Unrelated shorts – Sullivan dies, St. Louis arrest, Grand jury decides not to charge man who fatally shot a robber, Leaderless DoD… and we never noticed, Service Academy Affirmative Action Lives On, and NPS wanted to remove William Penn statue to make park more welcoming and inclusive
Transterrestrial Musings: The Justified Backlash Against DEI, also, Prospects For Nuclear Power
Victory Girls: Liz Cheney: Vote For Trump And You’ll Never Vote Again, Iran Starts 2024 By Flogging Woman Who Refused To Wear Hijab, and Pro-Hamas Supporters Vandalize Military Cemetery And Block Roads
Volokh Conspiracy: [Ilya Somin] The January 6 Attack was an Insurrection, also, [Steven Calabresi] January 6, 2021 Was Not an Insurrection
Watts Up With That: UN Puts “Climate Integrity” at the Heart of their 2024 Election Plan, CO2 Tax Farmers Protests Rock Germany, Government Backing Down, A Cautionary Tale from Prince Edward Island, Biden’s EPA Massively Stepped Up Its ‘Environmental Justice’ Agenda In 2023, and German Farmers Kick Off Massive Protests Against Policy That Could Threaten Their Livelihoods
The Federalist: Cheney’s Memoir Offers Warning About Ruling Class, Not Trump, For Three Days Top U.S. Officials Had No Idea The Defense Secretary Was Hospitalized, Democrats Can’t Admit The Border Crisis Is Spiraling Out Of Control, Elise Stefanik Gives Master Class On Refuting Democrats’ ‘Insurrection’ Lies, The Survival Of The Republic Depends On Our Citizenry, Not Our Courts, and Exclusive: How A Left-Wing ‘Alliance’ Skirted Arizona’s ‘Zuckbucks’ Ban To Meddle In Key County’s Elections
Mark Steyn: The Feast of the Insurrection, Office Space: Executive Suite and the Business Movie, Buttons and Bows, and Exit Music part two

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Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, please

Posted on | January 8, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, please

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Coffee. Tread juice. Java. Is there anything it can’t do?

h/t Rule 5 Texan on X

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Eight Predictions Friday, also, the Saturday Blondepocalypse.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Carmen Curlers, MAGA SCOTUS Blues, Corsicana, “Wuthering Heights”, Scenes From The Decameron, Black Sheep Squadron, Isabella Maria DeLuca, The Night Manager, Washington Beats Texas In The Sugar Bowl, Michigan Beats Alabama In The Rose Bowl, The Boys In The Boat, ABBA, Happy New Year Lt. Dan, “There’s Got To Be A Morning After”, Slow Horses, and The Holdovers

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mercedes Blanche, Fish Pic Friday – Alissa Shaye Hale, Johnny B Goode, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Happy New Year, Picking up Where I left Off and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for January 5

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule 5 Friday – MAGA Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: I GOT NO FRIENDS ‘CAUSE THEY READ THE PAPERS

Posted on | January 7, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I GOT NO FRIENDS ‘CAUSE THEY READ THE PAPERS

— compiled by Wombat-socho

For those of you who show a modicum of common sense by not hanging out on X, you may have missed the latest development in the Harvard DEI/plagiarism/stupidity eruption. It seems that Business Insider, a “newspaper” that tends to publish a lot of crap against Republicans, Libertarians, and anyone not clearly a Democrat, has failed to learn the lesson Peter Thiel taught Gawker a few years back*. BI decided it would go after Bill Ackman’s Israeli wife for plagiarism. Ackman has decided that not only is he going to assemble a posse of autists, AIs, and people who don’t like BI or the Ivies, and ransack EVERY SINGLE PAPER published by the faculty at MIT and the Ivy League, he’s going to stick it to BI as well. Order your popcorn now!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Pouncing? Yes, But Also Seizing: GOP Gets Credit for Resignation of Harvard University’s Plagiarist President
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Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!
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An Inauspicious New Year
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History You Probably Never Knew
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‘Teens Arrested’
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FMJRA 2.0: (Like) There’s No Tomorrow
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In The Mailbox: 01.02.24
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In The Mailbox: 01.03.24 (Morning Edition)
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Why Doesn’t KiwiFarms Have a Lolcow Thread About TikTok’s ‘Tunnel Girl’?
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In The Mailbox: 01.04.24
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‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better Than Mainstream Journalism
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In The Mailbox: 01.05.24
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Top linkers for the week ending January 5:

EBL (12)
(tied) 357 Magnum and A View From The Beach (8)
The Daley Gator (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

*With a little help from a pro wrestler you may have heard of, one Hulk Hogan.

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In The Mailbox: 01.05.24

Posted on | January 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts…

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

How I feel when I see the news these days

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: If Someone Asks You To Leave Their Home, Leave,
EBL: Scenes from the Decameron, Corsicana, Did ISIS Daesh Blow Up The Soleimani Memorial in Iran? and Lord Cornholio Biden to speak on January 6 at Valley Forge about “insurrectionists”
Twitchy: Biden’s Economic Delusions Of Grandeur Persist While Americans Continue To Suffer, We’re Guessing Your Stock Portfolio Isn’t Matching Nancy Pelosi’s 65% Gains, and Epic Thread Debunks Leftist Mouth-Breathers Claiming Political Parties Magically Switched Places
Louder With Crowder: Brave Cat Sees Dog Being Attacked By Coyotes, Goes Into Beast Mode To Save The Pooch, Disney Took Advice From South Park For New Star Wars Movie, Is Literally “Putting A Chick In It And Making It Lame”, ‘Good guy with a gun’ beats the rap, will not be charged for shooting a thug attempting to rob a taco restaurant, and Naked Ski Event Meant For Women Only Will, Of Course, Now Allow “Female Identifying” Men To Participate
Vox Popoli: Epstein List Released, The Shadow War Continues, Cancelling the Cancel Pigs, Tragedy and Farce, Post-Boomer Post-Feminism, The 5 Best Free Comics, and College Grads Are Not Smarter
According To Hoyt: DEI DIE, die, die, die! This, That And The Other, Replacement and Lackanookie, and Bolt Hole
Monster Hunter Nation: Down These Mean Streets, also, Larry in La La Land
Upstream Reviews: He Won’t Be The Last
Postcards From Barsoom: Outside The Walls Of The Crumbling Tower

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The difference between Mastery and Proficiency
American Conservative: So Now Washington Tells Us, also, Tuberville Says Nikki Haley is a ‘Neocon’
American Greatness: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo Calls For a Halt in the Use of COVID-19 mRNA Shots, Harvard—Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire, House GOP Sets Date for Mayorkas Impeachment Hearing, and House Oversight and Judiciary Committees Move to Hold Hunter Biden in Contempt of Congress
American Thinker: Obama’s New Movie, Same Message: Blame White People, DEI Can Only Exist in a Noncompetitive Environment, and Invasion Inversion: Turning America Upside-Down
Animal Magnetism: CPAC 2024, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Eight Predictions Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s infant mortality rate rises by 82%, Cuba’s Minister of the Economy has never told the truth, Massachusetts Democrats demand Biden remove Cuba from list of terrorist states, Cuba remains on U.S. blacklist for religious freedoms, and Mayorkas and climate change
BattleSwarm: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Swatted, Taqueria Robbery Shooter No-Billed, and BREAKING: Wayne LaPierre Resigns As NRA Head
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches commercial communications satellite, National Labor Relations Board files complaint against SpaceX, The mining potential on Mars, NASA and one private company respond to Navaho nation’s demand to cancel lunar mission, Japan delays launch of Mars sample return mission due to problems with its H3 rocket, and Can the Democrats offend enough people to make even their aggressive election tampering impossible?
Cafe Hayek: Impersonal, Yes; Soulless, No, also, Discoursing on Trade Deficits
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Distant Storm, Paging Dr Kennedy, and 2023 Reading
Da Tech Guy: Three Pieces from 2023 You Hated but We Think are worth a 2nd Look, Could you imagine the media outrage if Trump supporters behaved this badly? and Question: How Do You Know People From MIT are Smarter than People From Harvard and Penn?
Dana Loesch: Star Wars – Third Wave Strikes Back, DeSantis Blasts Haley For Being “Disrespectful” For Saying Iowans’ Votes Need Correcting
Don Surber: DC to celebrate Insurrection Day, also, President Nothing
First Street Journal: He will not do well in prison
Gates Of Vienna: Marion Maréchal: Civil Peace is Threatened by Uncontrolled Immigration, “We Will Punish You”, Cut ’Em Loose! These Infidel Doctors Try My Patience! School Days in Sweden, Washington Promoting Jihad in Schools, and Don’t Call Them Parasites, or You’ll Do Time
The Geller Report: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Blames the Southern Border Crisis on Climate Change Hoax, Hamas Terror Tunnel Training Children, How Hamas Arms Children for Terrorism, TRUMP WON: Summary of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election in the Swing States, and 55% Spike in Young Disabled Women Since Vaccine Rollout
Hollywood In Toto: Pete Holmes Goes Viral with God Is No-Thing Clip, Why American Fiction Misses Instant Classic Status by Inches, Night Swim Offers an Unexpected Surprise, The Shroud: Face to Face Doc Lands Distribution Deal, Will Hunter Biden Doc Offer More Damage Control Than Truth? and Tim Dillon Destroys Media for Protecting Clinton From Epstein Files
The Lid: U-Haul Report Finds Top Ten Most Moved-To Cities are All in Red States
Legal Insurrection: Opposition to DEI Policies is Growing Rapidly, Chicago Public Schools Principals Not Happy With Prospect of Removing Police Officers, British Warship Arrives in Guyana, Amid Ongoing Border Dispute with Venezuela, Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Trump Challenge to Ballot Ban On Fast Track, The Idea That College Professors are Fleeing Red States is Mostly Media Hype, Appeals Court Upholds Jan. 6 Defendant Conviction for ‘Disorderly Conduct’ Despite His ‘Passive, Quiet and Nonviolent Conduct’, and German Officials Ignore Farmers’ Protests to Save Agricultural Fuel Tax Exemptions
L’Ombre deOlivier: A Gay Fisking
Nebraska Energy Observer: Me, too, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Pat McAfee Uses His Show To Say ESPN Boss Is ‘Actively Trying To Sabotage” Him, UFC Fighter Colby Covington Sounds Off To OutKick’s Tomi Lahren On USA Boxing’s Policy Allowing Men In Ring Against Women: ‘It’s Unethical’, Ole Miss Running Back Quinshon Judkins Entering The Transfer Portal Perfectly Portrays Just How Dumb College Football Has Become, J.J. McCarthy Says Michigan Had To Get On Ohio State’s Level When It Came To Sign Stealing In College Football, LSU May Be Playing In National Title Game With Decent Defense: Tigers Should Consider Michigan DC Jesse Minter, Lamar Jackson Didn’t Need LeBron, ‘Black Twitter’ To Defend Him From No Name ‘Quarterbacky’ Radio Host, and Australian OF Model Says She Accidentally Got Pregnant Making Content
Power Line: Taking out Arouri, Europe’s “Hard Right” Uprising, Pillage People Revisited, Don’t F*** With Bill Ackman’s Wife, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Demands Transparency As SHEIN Seeks US Stock Issue
Shot In The Dark: “Show Me The Gun Owner, I’ll Show You The Disorder”, Something In The Water Does Not Compute, A Small Win, Haleyed, and Blast From The Past
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Government and Public Confidence
This Ain’t Hell: Nothing to see here, move along – Epstein redux, Well-known universities adding meaning to ‘useless degree’, USS Carney Sailors awarded the Combat Action Ribbon, Crenshaw locks horns with Fox, Valor Friday, Military and veteran issues anticipated to be among topics for the upcoming presidential campaign, and A Russian takes to Telegram to advocate attacking a British warship
Transterrestrial Musings: Sympathy For Claudine Gay, Elon Musk, What Next For Harvard? How Hamas Hid Their October 7th Planning, and ULA
Victory Girls: Joe Biden To Begin 2024 Campaign “For Soul Of Nation” On January 6, also, Harry Dunn, Capitol Police “Hero”, Running For Congress
Volokh Conspiracy: En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA’s Vaping Regulation “Surprise Switcheroo”, also, Canadian Immigration Officials Block Citizenship Grant for Russian Immigrant Because She Was Convicted of the “Crime” of Speaking Out Against Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine
Watts Up With That: Oil Giant’s Massive Impairment Could Be The Latest Sign Of Trouble For California’s Economy, Experts Say, Israeli Greens Demand a Carbon Tax, Green Billionaires Fund Large Backbench Tory Net Zero Parliamentary Caucus, Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer? and Federal Court Deals Knockout Punch To Blue City’s Biden-Backed Effort To Ban Gas Stoves
The Federalist: Media Blame Claudine Gay’s Lack Of Ethical Standards On The Conservatives Who Pointed It Out, Please, Neocons, Stop Claiming That Migrants Jump The Border To Become Patriotic Americans. That’s Not Why They’re Here, Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Stuns With Its Visuals — And Complete Vapidity, Porn-Producing UW Chancellor Is Just Observing Academia’s New Religion Of Performative Vulgarity, Leftist Judge Strikes Blow To Election Integrity In Wisconsin With Ballot ‘Curing’ Decision, Randi Weingarten’s Meltdown Over School Choice And ‘Democracy’ Is Pure Projection, and Texas Universities Skirt New Law Aimed At Dissolving Racist ‘Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion’ On Campuses
Mark Steyn: Judges and Juntas, also, The Narrative Unravels

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

Posted on | January 4, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Tunnel Girl’ Update: Why KiwiFarms Is Better Than Mainstream Journalism

Jacob Lorei (left) a/k/a “Kala”

In my previous post, I expressed dismay that KiwiFarms didn’t have a “lolcow” thread about “Kala,” the TikTok personality who is digging an (apparently illegal) tunnel under “her” Northern Virginia home. Now I must apologize to the KF crew, after a commenter pointed out that there was such a thread, which I hadn’t found because it was in a development section of the Farms only available to registered users.

Oh, boy, what a total dox — complete with a college yearbook photo circa 2006 (above left) when Jacob Thomas Lorei was attending Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, and not studying engineering. It appears that “Kala” has a day job doing some kind of computer software work, and has legally changed his name to Pranavi Kalavathamma Lorei, so that he is not only pretending to be a woman, but also pretending to be Indian (not the Elizabeth Warren kind). The Kiwi Farmers have the exact address where Kala is constructing the “tunnel”/creepy underground lair, as well as information about “businesses” Kala runs from this address, and some drama about the eviction of a former roommate/tenant.

Compare the excellent investigative reporting of KiwiFarms with the deliberately dumbed-down output of so-called “professional” journalists:

It’s only a few days into 2024 and we’ve already got “Northern Virginia woman builds likely illegal underground tunnel system under her home” on our bingo card.
The amateur engineer going by “Kala” on her “engineer.everything” TikTok account has become known as “TikTok tunnel girl” for her videos showcasing the construction of a series of tunnels underneath her home (she’s posted more than 200 dating back to October 2022). Many videos feature her welding, stacking cinder blocks, dumping rock, and talking through engineering challenges she’s encountered while constructing the “underground tunnel system” 22 feet below the Northern Virginia surface.
Kala, who has asked news outlets not to share her legal name, admits in her TikToks that she’s not a professionally trained structural engineer (though she is a software engineer). She’s made a point to note in her videos that she’s learning new hands-on skills, and she’s highlighted several setbacks and challenges to the project.

See what I mean? The reader who is curious about “Kala” — wondering what kind of crazy person would do such a thing — gets no clue from the professional journalist, who voluntarily plays along with the deception (“Kala . . . has asked news outlets not to share her legal name”) that conceals the most relevant facts about this kook who (a) bears a more than passing resemblance to infamous mass murderer Adam Lanza and (b) could be doing that “Buffalo Bill” thing from Silence of the Lambs.

It would be wrong to imply that “Kala” is a homicidal maniac who was digging this “tunnel” for criminal purposes, but on the other hand, I wouldn’t accuse you of paranoia if you expressed such suspicions.

NBC News was the first national media to cover the “TikTok tunnel girl” saga, back in November, but read that story and see if you get any hint that “Kala” is actually transgender, and in fact is a white guy pretending to be a woman of Indian ancestry. They used an image of “Kala” lifted from “her” social media, and hello, face filters? That picture is a disguise in more ways than one, and why do you think Jacob/“Kala” is so intent on concealing his/“her” true identity? Would you guess that, perhaps, Jacob/“Kala” is deriving income from his/“her” TikTok/YouTube based on the audience’s belief that “Kala” is actually a woman?

There are a lot of questions about this person that NBC News and other “professional” media outlets evidently didn’t bother to ask, and they are therefore guilty of misleading the public — undermining their own credibility, kind of like how “Kala” is undermining the foundation of his/“her” home with that tunnel. If KiwiFarms is providing more reliable journalism than NBC News, whose fault is that?