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In The Mailbox: 02.03.23

Posted on | February 4, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.03.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should An 80-Year-Old Man Defend Himself From Home Invaders?
EBL: Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Spoted Over Billings, Montana? also, Saint Blaise
Twitchy: If This Thread About Why U.S. Is REALLY Helping Ukraine Is True At All…, also, Occasional Cortex Brings Knife To Gunfight With Marjorie Taylor Greene
Louder With Crowder: Two grown men beef over a skinny latte in the most beta-brawl imaginable, also, Ilhan Omar whines she was only booted from House Committee because GOP hates she’s a Muslim
Vox Popoli: The King’s Justice, Strategically Incapable, and AI = Inhibited Algorithms
According To Hoyt: It’s UP! It’s UP!, Dreaming In Esperanto, and You Get NOTHING
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S4 E4 – Monsters (Round 1), also, My response to the official complaint at MarsCon about my “tone”
Gab News: A Christian Perspective On AI

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Come, Follow Me, also, The Born Loser
American Greatness: GOP to Investigate John Kerry’s Secret Negotiations with CCP, also, Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill to Eliminate Diversity Positions at Pentagon
American Power: Predator’s Paradise, Secretary of State Antony Blinken Cancels Trip to Beijing Over Chinese Spy Balloon, and ‘The Cult of Book Ownership’
American Thinker: President Trump vs. the Swamp
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five 2023 Outlook Friday
Babalu Blog: 86 House Democrats vote against resolution condemning the horrors of socialism, Food in Cuba is both scarce and unaffordable as prices double while incomes remain stagnant, and Connecticut Democrats seek to ban use of ‘Latinix’ in state documents
BattleSwarm: Power Out Day 2
Behind The Black: Red China to build space ground stations in Antarctica, NASA switches lunar landing site for Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander, Spanish airport to become a rocket spaceport, and Today’s blacklisted American: Comic book writer slandered and then canceled because of the slanders
Cafe Hayek: More from Phil Magness on the Error-Stuffed 1619 Project, also, The Typical Immigration Restrictionist Is No Better At Economics Than Is the Typical Protectionist
Da Tech Guy: How About the Patriots Post Brady Expectations?
Don Surber: Woke Is Headed For The Deep Sleep
First Street Journal: Is the “spy balloon’s” mission just to make President Biden look bad?
Gates Of Vienna: Ignacio Garriga – Islam is Incompatible With the Culture of the West, Pimping For Allah, and Brother, Can You Spare a Pfennig?
The Geller Report: Why Doesn’t Biden’s Pentagon Shoot Down the Chinese Surveillance Balloon Over Montana?
Hogewash: A Burnt-Out White Dwarf, also, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Colbert Preaches to His Masked-Up Parishioners, also, New Celebrity PR Gambit – Self-Approved ‘Documentaries’
The Lid: Florida College Fires Woke President Who Refused to End Racist CRT Curriculum
Legal Insurrection: Nearly 70 Percent of Military Personnel Have Witnessed “Growing Politicization” of Armed Forces, New Poll Reveals, Arizona State Journalism Prof Suggests the Media Should Continue ‘Abandoning Objectivity’, Harvard Kennedy School Fires ‘Misinformation Expert’ Joan Donovan, Texas DPS Finds Chinese Nationals, Who Paid Smugglers $35,000 Each, Crossing Border Illegally, and Maryland School District’s BLM Curriculum Talks About 13 Forms of Oppression, Including ‘Speciesism’
Nebraska Energy Observer: 64 Years Ago
Outkick: High School Swimmer Reportedly Disqualified from Race Due to American Flag on Swim Cap, Alex Cora Bragged About Houston Astros Cheating During 2017 World Series, According To New Book, TikToker Plans To Sell Bags Of Sand From The Spot Tom Brady Announced His Retirement To Recoup Money She Lost Betting On Him, Men’s Ball Was Used During First Half Of Duke – FSU Women’s Game, Blue Devils’ Coach Wants To Appeal The Loss, and ESPN Drags Dan Orlovsky Through The Mud Over Joe Montana Take
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Omar persists, and A modest proposal
Shark Tank: Meet The Only Florida Democrat To Vote In Support Of Socialism
Shot In The Dark: It’s About Suburban Maryland, Never Forget, and Tick Tick Tick
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Texas Politics
This Ain’t Hell: A Modest Proposal II, Valor Friday, The U.S. agrees to send longer-range weapons to Ukraine, Extra dose of valor for your Friday, and More on ‘the balloon’
Transterrestrial Musings: How Humans Burn Calories, “We Were Wrong About Covid”, Virgin Orbit, and Finally
Victory Girls: Russia Saber Ratting Ahead Of Ukraine Anniversary
Volokh Conspiracy: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Open Letter re Allegations of Antisemitic Bias by GW Prof Lara Sheehi
Watts Up With That: What is the IEA anyway?, Industry-Intensive Vietnam to Increase Fossil Fuel Consumption, and Could Someone Please Translate this Climate Change Gobbledygook?
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Accues Israel Of Being A Terrorist State, Turning West Bank Into An Apartheid State, Occasional Cortex Says Eric Swalwell Was Removed From Intel Committee Over “Incisive Ability To Communicate”, Kamala Harris Claims “We Have A Lot To Be Thankful For” In Joe Biden, and The View Hags Denounce Pledge Of Allegiance As A “Waste Of Time”
The Federalist: Study: To Get Hired At UT Austin, Faculty Must Prove Allegiance To Racism,By Exposing Hamilton 68, The ‘Twitter Files’ Proved The Deep State Is A Weapon Aimed Directly At You, Kids’ Disinterest In Libraries Has Nothing To Do With A Manga Shortage, Was The Government Ever Going To Tell Us About The Chinese Surveillance Balloon?, and That Didn’t Age Well!
Mark Steyn: The First of Ninety-Nine Red Balloons

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The Long Overdue and Much Awaited Return of Aspiring Rapper Update

Posted on | February 3, 2023 | Comments Off on The Long Overdue and Much Awaited Return of Aspiring Rapper Update

If it’s bad news that three men went missing in Detroit, is it good news when they are found? We report, you decide:

Two missing rappers and their friend were found dead in an abandoned Michigan apartment building Thursday — nearly two weeks after they disappeared the night their gig was canceled.
Investigators discovered the bodies of Armani Kelly, Dante Wicker and Montoya Givens, who had been missing since the night of Jan. 21, in a building in Highland Park, near the Detroit border, three police sources told the Detroit News. A person of interest has been brought in for questioning.
The three bodies were found under mounds of debris inside the basement of the apartment complex, Michigan state police said — without confirming the identities of the remains, the local outlet reported.
The men had been shot, one of the sources told the paper.
Squatters often use the abandoned building, according to cops.
Kelly, whose stage name was Marley Whoop, and Wicker, known as B12, had been scheduled to perform at a birthday party inside a Detroit lounge on the night they disappeared, but the show was canceled.
Kelly, 27, reportedly told his fiancée that his show at Lounge 31 had been canceled due to an equipment issue and planned to link up with his two friends to find some open mic events, the Detroit News reported.
He picked up Wicker, 31, and Givens, 31, in his car that evening.
Kelly’s fiancée said she couldn’t reach him sometime after 7:30 p.m. after texting and calling his phone several times.
Last week, police spotted Kelly’s car, a 2017 Chevrolet Equinox, on the road without a license plate. A 15-year-old boy was behind the wheel and was taken into police custody.
The teen told officers that a man had instructed him to pick up the car from a location on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit News reported.
Investigators looked through the boy’s texts and calls with the man and learned he had an outstanding warrant involving alleged fraud. They searched his home Monday and took him in for questioning, a source told the outlet.
Police also recovered surveillance video of a man wearing gloves cleaning out the Equinox.

And at the very end of the story, this sentence:

All three men had recently been paroled from prison, where they met, according to Kelly’s fiancée.

Fresh out of prison, and right into the grave.

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Category: Aspiring Rapper Update

MSNBC: ‘January 6 Now! January 6 Tomorrow! January 6 Forever!’

Posted on | February 3, 2023 | 2 Comments

What is it with some people named Wallace, eh?

At any rate, today my office TV was tuned to Fox News until I got bored with endless repetition: “THE CHINESE SPY BALLOON!” So at 4 p.m., I changed the channel to MSNBC and thereby entered a time warp, as Nicolle Wallace spent the first 22 minutes of the hour “reporting” about how “lies and conspiracies” from Orange Man Bad that inspired The Worst Day in American History “are now deeply embedded in the politics of the GOP.” She went on about this, as I say, for twenty-two minutes, because apparently this is what the MSNBC audience craves — an endless diet of fuel for their fathomless hatred of Donald Trump, an all-you-can-eat buffet of Fear and Loathing that leaves them permanently fixated on January 6, 2021, in the way some nostalgic Southerners used to be permanently fixated on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg.

I actually took some notes on the topics of the subsquent segments in Nicolle Wallace’s two-hour afternoon bloc of programming until, after she led the top of the second hour with another 22 minutes of Trump-obsessed “reporting,” it dawned on me: What is this “news” really about?

Oh . . . DISTRACTION!

What important news have we just learned? Thanks to a letter from Hunter Biden’s lawyers, it has been confirmed that the “Laptop From Hell” was indeed his, and meanwhile there are questions about Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, which may have been used by Hunter in his foreign business deals. So by filling her program time with Orange Man Bad bulletins and J6 nostalgia, Nicolle Wallace is distracting her audience from the scandals affecting the current resident of the White House, but her audience doesn’t know or care anything about such scandals. All that matters to them is making sure that Trump never gets back into the White House, which is why they insist that he must be criminally prosecuted for . . . something, anything, it doesn’t matter.

Well, I watch MSNBC so you don’t have to, but there’s only so much of it I can take. Back to Fox and the Chinese spy balloon hysteria, I guess.



 

 

Category: MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 02.02.23

Posted on | February 3, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thirty-seven years ago, the Army promoted me to Staff Sergeant and my daughter was born. Happy birthday, kiddo, wherever you are.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

USS Montana, from the Azur Lane predecessor Kantai Collection.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Concealed Carry In Chicago
EBL: Russia plans big offensive in Donbas and here we go again, Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) gets the boot from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Your Honor Prison Rodeo Poker
Twitchy: WaPo’s Matt Viser Claims Hunter’s Laptop “Doesn’t Have Much” Implicating Joe, The Best Occasional Cortex Preaching Memes, and Christopher Rufo Takes A Look At FSU’s “Matrix Of Oppression”
Louder With Crowder: AOC melts down over Ilhan Omar’s removal from Foreign Affairs committee, also, ‘Fentanyl is colorblind’
Vox Popoli: Ben Shapiro Backtracks, Surrender Means Success, and The War on Chickens

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Comments update
American Conservative: The Shadow Of One Dark Wing, also, Media’s Russiagate Self-Mutilation
American Greatness: Dems Spit Fire as House Votes to Boot Rep. Ilhan Omar Off Foreign Affairs Committee
American Thinker: White Supremacy, Racism and Malevolent Incitement
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Imperial Spending News
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship thugs sneaking in to the U.S. disguised as Cuban refugees, The Cuban butcher shop, and Russian ‘economic experts’ propose total digitalization of money, banking, & trade within Cuba
BattleSwarm: Power Out Here
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches 53 Starlink satellites, ROK officially cancels Russian launch contract, signs Vega-C instead, ISRO completes investigation into failure of its SSLV rocket on first launch, and Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Let’s Revisit the Tom Brady Expectations game with Tampa Bay now that his Three Years are up, also, Sorry Facebook Fact Checkers – The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Is A Gross Sex Predator & The Left Is Okay With That
Don Surber: DeSantis Beats The Devil
First Street Journal: In which Leonard Downie says the quiet part out loud
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad at the Schuman Metro Station, also, The Mother of Satan Pays a Visit to Brussels
The Geller Report: Jihadi Jew-Hater Ilhan Omar Gets The Boot Off Foreign Affairs Committee, ‘People want honest coverage!’, and Islamic Nazi Caucus SHRIEKS & CRIES, In Congress When Jew-Hater Ilhan Omar Gets Booted Off Foreign Affairs Committee
Hogewash: What’s Up for February, 2023, Nothing to See Here. Move Along, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Correction to the Correction to the Correction
Hollywood In Toto: 80 for Brady Is a Cinematic Fair Catch, also, FLASHBACK – Hunter Biden Tells Kimmel Laptop is ‘Red Herring’
The Lid: Daniel Pearl Was Brutally Murdered 21 Years Ago But The Key Lesson Wasn’t Learned
Legal Insurrection: Hulu Series Based on 1619 Project Pushes ‘False History’, Chip Roy Confronts Maxine Waters With Her Own Words on Socialism, Leftists Lose Their Minds After DeSantis Declares War on Wokeness in Higher Ed, Florida has More People in the Workforce Than New York, and Pentagon Monitoring Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over Northern States for the Past Several Days
Nebraska Energy Observer: What do…
Outkick: CBS Isn’t Happy With Tony Romo, Met With Analyst To Address Decline In Quality, Arrest Warrant Issued To Cincinnati Bengals RB Joe Mixon For Pointing Gun At A Woman, Jake Paul Calls Out Bomani Jones Projecting His Many Failures, Phil Mickelson Says LIV Golf Would Dominate PGA Tour In Team Event, Drags Twitter Bald Guy, Punks Tiger On His Way Out, and OutKick Founder Clay Travis Gets Into A Vicious Street Battle With Blue Checkmarks Who Hate Freedom, Biological Female Instagram Models & Fun
Power Line: Battle of the Bulge Biden style, Hunter Biden – More Depraved Than You Knew, and Fascism and Betrayal
Shark Tank: FL Republicans Continue To Overshadow Democrats With Massive Voter Registration Advantage
Shot In The Dark: A Boot On Your Neck Forever, Grandma Bea, and Schiffed
The Political Hat: Abusing Girls In The UK: Police Knowingly Neglect Victims; Hardcore Porn For Pre-Teen Homework; Challenging The Gender Narrative
This Ain’t Hell: A Modest Proposal, also, The U.S. secures additional access in the Philippines
Transterrestrial Musings: Hail Columbia, Biden’s Base, The New FBI Building, and CRT Pitch
Victory Girls: Meltdowns And Tantrums Ensue After Ilhan Omar Ousted
Volokh Conspiracy: Gag Order Bans Political Tweeter from Naming Man Who Accused American Conservative Union President of Groping
Watts Up With That: Those Attacks on Gas Stoves Aren’t Really about Health, also, Al Jazeera – We are “greening” ourselves to extinction
Weasel Zippers:  Biden Admin Announces New Crackdown On Gas Stoves, Hakeem Jeffries Complains – Condemning Socialist Dictators Would “Undermine” House Democrat Agenda, and Hispanic Democrats In Connecticut Introduce Bill To Ban Woke Term “Latinx”
The Federalist: The Media Keep Lying To Protect Ilhan Omar, Biden’s ‘Cooperation’ With The FBI Is Meaningless And Misleading, If New Mexico Democrats Get Their Way, Even Felons Will Be Voting By Mail, False Statistics Fly As California Democrats Push For Gun Control Laws That Failed Already, and 5 Riveting Films Snubbed By The Academy Awards
Mark Steyn: 15 Minutes to Communism

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‘A Very Minuscule Number’

Posted on | February 2, 2023 | 2 Comments

Shamann Walton was first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2018 from District 10, the voting-age population of which is about 42% Asian, 21% white, 19% black and 15% Hispanic. After being reelected as supervisor in 2020, Walton was chosen by his fellow members of the Board of Supervisors to be president of the board, a position which has often been a springboard to even higher office (e.g., Sen. Dianne Feinstein was previously president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors). Walton is therefore not a fringe figure in California politics, but rather represents the mainstream of politics in the highly influential city of San Francisco. Which makes this extra-scary:

A San Francisco advisory committee’s recommendation that the city pay out hefty reparations to the city’s longtime black residents does not go far enough toward making things right, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors told National Review on Tuesday.
Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wrote the legislation that formed the committee two years ago, said that the proposed $5 million payment per qualifying person is actually “much less than a lot of the projections that people say black people should receive for reparations here in the United States.”
“You can Google a lot of the reparations work that has been done and look at the monetary formulas that people have put together and most certainly the 5 million is a very minuscule number compared to a lot of research that has been done over the past couple of decades, quite frankly,” said Walton, who has represented the city’s 10th district since 2019 and previously served as board president.

If anyone offered to give me $5 million, I “most certainly” would not deride this as “minuscule.” But without regard to the amount, the whole idea of reparations is absurd, as Jazz Shaw comments what is being proposed “would be a payment funded entirely by people who have never owned slaves to people who have never been enslaved in a state where slavery was never legal.” Will other minorities, including recent immigrants, be taxed to make payments to black Californians? Hispanics are 40% of California’s population, Asians are 16%, and nearly 30% of California residents were born in foreign countries. On what theory of “social justice” is their obligation to pay reparations to be calculated?

That any such scheme is unworkable as a practical matter does not mean that it is not a mainstream idea in California, which has become a gigantic lunatic asylum under statewide Democratic Party rule. A state that elects Adam Schiff to Congress is a state where no idea is too crazy to be “mainstream.” Have you heard about “The Train to Nowhere”?

In a 2008 referendum, “California voters . . . authorized $9.5 billion in bonds for the planned 800-mile project set to operate [high-speed rail] between San Francisco and Los Angeles.” But now the projected cost has ballooned, while the proposal has been reduced to a “171-mile segment from Merced to Bakersfield” — because so many people in Merced are in a big hurry to get to Bakersfield, right? — that would cost $22 billion to complete, and the state doesn’t have that much, either. California’s most recent annual budget is about $300 billion, which includes about $4 billion for the Merced-Bakersfield high-speed rail line.

So, in a state currently spending more than a million dollars a day to build this “Train to Nowhere,” you can’t dismiss California’s talk about reparations as a joke, because California is a place where political jokes have a way of becoming catastrophic realities. And it’s only going to get crazier, because any California resident who is not crazy is going to get the hell out of there pretty soon, until there is nobody left in California except lunatics (e.g., the people who elected Adam Schiff).



 

 

Category: California

In The Mailbox: 02.01.23

Posted on | February 2, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in January!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

All I wanted was a Pepsi, Mom…

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode#1980
357 Magnum: This Isn’t Just About Criminal Justice Reform
EBL: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster, also, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Twitchy: Enjoy This Video Of A Car Not Stopping For Highway Protesters, Young Trans Woman Learns Her Breast Tenderness & Cramps Are PMS Symptoms, and WaPo Journo Claims Chip Roy’s Comments About Fentanyl Aren’t True – His Office Responds
Louder With Crowder: Canadian politician demands his country denounce Tucker Carlson for making a joke about Canada, also, Melinda Gates sheds major doubt on Bill Gates’s claim he ‘just had dinner’ with Jeffrey Epstein
Vox Popoli: Post-Partum Abortion, also, The Saker Closes Shop
Stoic Observations: Social Justice, Moral Agency, & American Posers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: AI me harder, daddy
American Conservative: The Hot Air and Space Museum
American Greatness: Jim Jordan Says Crisis at the Border is ‘Intentional;’ Articles of Impeachment Filed Against DHS Chief Mayorkas
American Thinker: The Real Lessons of the Real History of The United States and post-Glasnost Ukraine, also, Child Abuse in the Name of Wokeness
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Political prisoners from Cuba’s July 11 protests being held in inhumane conditions, Cuba, prostituted, between London and Moscow, and Mayhem at Cuba’s London trial as its final day approaches
BattleSwarm: The Flying Yeet of Death
Behind The Black: Ingenuity successfully completes 41st flight, Astronomers discover twelve more Jupiter moons, Is Amazon’s Kuiper Constellation project in trouble, or is it fleeing Seattle?, Pushback: Student appeals conviction for distributing Constitution on public campus, and The February 2023 Behind the Black fund-raising campaign
Cafe Hayek: More From Konstantin Kisin On the Idiocy and Dangers of Wokism
CDR Salamander: Eastern Europe’s Second Chance
Da Tech Guy: The NY Times reports Fighting Back Works!
Don Surber: Tinfoil Hat Media
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer really, really, really hates the police!, also, Killadelphia: Not as bad as last year!
Gates Of Vienna: Imad Karim: “A Society That Has Forgotten How to Defend Itself”
The Geller Report: Hunter Biden’s MetaBIOta Labs Received Tens of Millions of Dollars in DOD Contracts, Experimented with Bat Viruses
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tonight’s Sky, February, 2023, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Anthony Jeselnik – ‘I Don’t Have Sympathy’ for Canceled Chappelle, also, Knock at the Cabin Is What Shyamalan Rarely Delivers
The Lid: Feb. 3, 1959: The Day The Music Died
Legal Insurrection: California’s Reparations Panel Now Calling for Prisons to be Closed and Privileges Restored, DEI, Social Justice Course Requirements Coming to SUNY in Fall of 2023, Progressives Label Bill Maher ‘Right Wing’ After CNN Adds Him to Friday Night Programming, College Board Bends The Knee To DeSantis, and It’s Finally Over: U.S. Slated to End Covid Emergency Declarations on May 11
Nebraska Energy Observer: America’s Untaught History
Outkick: Wife Of 49ers Player Says She Didn’t Feel Safe Around Eagles Fans, Mike Francesa: Tom Brady Isn’t Even The Best Regular Season Or Super Bowl QB, Women On Social Media Are Beside Themselves Because Joe Burrow Won’t Be Playing In The Super Bowl, Former Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker’s Goal Of Making Senior Bowl Comes True, Recovery Has Been ‘Flawless’, and ESPN Puts Aside Tom Brady Retirement To Promote Random WNBA News On Front Page Of Website
Power Line: Let’s go crazy, Star Tribune edition, A Balanced View of the Tyre Nichols Case, and ChatGPT: Initial Thoughts [Updated]
Shark Tank: Rep. Maria Salazar – Cubans “Throwing Themselves To The Sharks” To Find Freedom In Florida
Shot In The Dark: The Bullied Pulpit, also, A Time For Choosing
This Ain’t Hell: Unvaccinated? No problem… just ring bell, yell “unclean!”, also, Retired Marines criticize changes intended to reshape the U.S. Marines for China threat
Transterrestrial Musings: I’m Sorry, Dave, But I Can’t Do That, Woke Academics, LEO Satellites, and NASA’s Safety Culture
Victory Girls: From The VG Bookshelf: In Defense Of the Second Amendment, also, Hunter The Pig Paid An Employee For Sex
Volokh Conspiracy: Today in Supreme Court History: February 1, 1816
Watts Up With That: Elite Billionaire Foundations Fund Wave of Green Climate Propaganda Flooding into British Schools
Weasel Zippers: WH Still Has No Clue Exactly How Many Classified Docs Were Found On Biden Properties, Texas To To Accelerate Border Wall Construction To Make State “Least Desirable Place For Illegal Immigration”, and Biden DHS Chief Has No Idea Where And Who The 1.1 Million “Gotaways” Are
The Federalist: Twitter, Media, And Democrats Are All Guilty In The Hamilton 68 Scandal, Senate Republicans Demand Answers From DirecTV For Nuking Newsmax, State Lawmakers Should Follow The RNC’s Lead And Reject Ranked-Choice Voting, Our Big Tech Overlords Yanked Yet Another Covid Video We Apparently Can’t Handle, and House Republicans Pledge To Protect Women’s Sports In Event Honoring National Girls And Women In Sports Day
Mark Steyn: The Pandemic Era

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In The Mailbox: 01.31.23

Posted on | February 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Can’t Bother With Criminals, But They Will Prosecute Self-Defense
EBL: Margaux
Twitchy: #GoogleLeaks Thread Tells #TwitterFiles To Hold Its Beer, Protesters Lose It As Chloe Cole Talks About Detransitioning, and Professional BS Artist Rachel Madcow Taken Apart In Thread Pointing Out Her Many, Many Lies
Louder With Crowder: Tennis player shuts down woke reporter so hard other athletes need to study her and take notes, Vegans find out what happens when they try stopping a poultry truck and the driver doesn’t give a f***, and Stephen Curry claims low-income housing next to his $30M mansion is a safety risk but next to YOUR house is okay
Vox Popoli: The Thumb on the Scale, Why We Call it Clown World, Advantage: Red China, Reconsidering Vaccines, and So Many Unanswered Questions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: DeSantis, Scourge Of Wokeness
American Greatness: Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Asks Democrat AG to Investigate Republican Kari Lake For Campaign Violations, also, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) Voluntarily Steps Down From Committee Assignments
American Thinker: Taking on the Would-be Destroyers of America, also, Is Donald Trump Worth The Fight?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Kooky California News
Babalu Blog: Imprisoned Cuban dissident rapper accused of planning a prison riot, Cubans and foreigners linked to regime take over state companies without competition, and 10,000 traffic accidents, 700 dead, thousands injured in Cuba during 2022
BattleSwarm: Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan – 2023 Edition, also, Japan, The Netherlands Join Red China Semiconductor Ban
Behind The Black: Juno’s camera experiences temperature problem, Viewing the Green Comet, SpaceX successfully launches 49 Starlink satellites and a D-Orbit space tug, The next chapter in my own personal blacklisting story, and Today’s blacklisted American found innocent of federal trumped up charges
Cafe Hayek: Turns Out that People Such As Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya Were Right All Along
CDR Salamander: Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVI
Chicago Boyz: ChatGPT and Fossil Fuels – An Update
Da Tech Guy: A journalistic trifecta, also, A small victory for sanity
Don Surber: Why Conservatives Oppose The War
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer scrubs race from its reporting . . . unless it’s politically useful, also, The only real winner of the Russo-Ukrainian War will be China
Gates Of Vienna: Munich – Peace For Our Time, Forced Marriages in France, Stockholm is Called to Prayer, Time for Everybody to Play Jab-Man, and An Appeal From Pamela Mastropietro’s Mother
The Geller Report: EMAIL BOMBSHELL – Hunter Biden Offered to Sell Intelligence on Russia To Alcoa Inc. for $55,000, also, Biden Regime Extends “Covid National Emergency” and “Public Health Emergency” To May 11
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Abell 2256
Hollywood In Toto: Salem Horror Fest Demands ‘LGBTQIA2S+’ Entries from Florida, Texas, also, Will Any Comedian Lay a Glove on Big Pharma (Now)?
The Lid: The Lies of Hulu’s 1619 Project Are Brutally Exposed By Historians, also, NYC’s Illegal Aliens Refuse to Give Up Luxury Hotels
Legal Insurrection: The Concept of ‘Harmful Words’ is a Serious Problem in Higher Education, Pfizer Responds to Project Veritas Video, Admitting to ‘Engineering’ Covid Variants in Lab Studies, Illinois School Worker Allegedly Stole $1.5 Million of Food, Mostly Chicken Wings, From District, Oklahoma State Superintendent Wants to Know What Public Universities are Spending on DEI, and DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities
Nebraska Energy Observer: How distant are we
Outkick: Michael Jordan’s Nike Earnings In 2022 More Than Doubled His Career NBA Money, Bomani Jones Tanks Even Further Week 2 On HBO, Doesn’t Rank On Cable Charts, 22-Year-Old High School Basketball Coach Fired After Impersonating 13-Year-Old Player, Dominating Teenagers In Wild Video, NFC Coach Calls Out Patrick Mahomes For ‘Flopping’ After Late Hit In AFC Title Game, and Fan Calls Out NBA Players’ B.S. Excuses With ‘Load Management Is A Rip Off’ Sign At Lakers-Nets Game
Power Line: Electrify Everything, But Without Copper, You Can’t Fool All the People, and A Vegan Day-Brightener
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – “COVID Is Over Now”
Shot In The Dark: What’s Ojibwe For “Buuuurn!”?, also, The Dicken Drill
The Political Hat: Symbol Of A Conquering Ideology – The Pride Flag
This Ain’t Hell: New Army personnel system working as expected, also, Leadership selection should be based on performance
Transterrestrial Musings: Twitter HQ, Iran And Russia, and The Unvaccinated
Victory Girls: Democrats Worried They’re Stuck With Kamala, also, MrBeast Blindness Video Reaction Shows Some Ugly
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Orders Unsealing Names of Non-Parent Sureties Who Put Up Bail for Samuel Bankman-Fried
Watts Up With That: Forget Net Zero – Oil and gas investment needed for another 30 years, BP warns, also, Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development 
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Insinuates GOP Is Racist For Attempting To Remove Her From Committee, Biden Falsely Claims He Has Built An Economy That Helps Workers As Wages & Incomes Fall, and Racist Lib Whoopi Goldberg Says White People Need Beatings Before Police Reform
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You Can’t Run From ‘Air One’

Posted on | January 31, 2023 | 1 Comment

Zachary Teytlebaum

Just a few years ago, when he was a student at Father Lopez High School in Daytona Beach, Florida, Zachary Teytlebaum filled his Twitter feed with messages of determination to succeed as a football player, At 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, Teytlebaum played defensive line for the “Green Wave” football team, but his hope of making a career of the game seems to have gone badly off-track. In November 2021, when he was 19 years old, Teytlebaum was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis with intent to sell. More recently, he has apparently had trouble making his child support payments, but he was behind the wheel of a Mercedes when he got blue-lighted Friday by Volusia County deputies on I-95. Teytlebaum fled north into Flagler County at triple-digit speeds, weaving in and out of traffic, passing on the shoulder and generally making himself a hazard to other motorists. What Teytlebaum evidently didn’t realize was that the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department had its “Air One” helicopter overhead, tracking his every move, so that it was well-nigh impossible for him to escape. After he exited the interstate north of Ormond Beach, he was driving too fast to navigate the turn and skidded off the road, tearing the bumper off his Mercedes. Still, he continued, heading north on John Anderson Highway toward Flagler Beach before he saw Flagler County deputies waiting for him with “stop sticks,” at which point he stopped and surrendered. As he was being handcuffed and led toward the deputy’s car, the following exchange took place:

Teytlebaum: “I ain’t did do sh**!” . . .
Deputy: “You’re under arrest.”
Teytlebaum: “For what?”
Deputy: “Fleeing and eluding . . .”
Teytlebaum: “I got a warrant.”
Deputy: “OK, then if you’ve got a warrant . . .”
Teytlebaum: “I’m asking, do I have . . .”
Deputy: “We don’t know who you are. How do we know if you’ve got a warrant?”
Teytlebaum: “I’m asking you, do I have a warrant? I fled because I thought I had a child support warrant. What the f***?”
Deputy: “That doesn’t give you an excuse to run.”
Teytlebaum: “Yes, it do!”

Well, I’m not sure what students are taught at Father Lopez High School, but I’m pretty sure they’re not taught that fleeing from police at 100 mph is legal, if you think you’ve got a child support warrant.

 

Teytlebaum was booked into jail on $5,000 bond. On their Twitter account, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department asked, “Why try and outrun Air One?” That’s what’s known as a rhetorical question.



 

 

Category: Crime, Florida
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