In The Mailbox: 01.04.23

Posted on | January 5, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.04.23

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gun Controllers Were Wrong Again
EBL: The Menu, also, Who’s The Bigger Dummy?
Twitchy: Surprise! Adam Kinzinger Already Commentator For CNN, also, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) Calls Republicans Opposed to McCarthy “Clowns” & “Terrorists”
Louder With Crowder: ESPN shocks audiences by leading a prayer for Damar Hamlin. Actual prayer. Not just a hashtag, Jordan Peterson shows off that Big Tech drip in his new Twitter suit, complete with an Elon Musk tie, and Speeches by Chip Roy, Matt Gaetz are MUST WATCH to understand why Kevin McCarthy is getting blocked from becoming Speaker
Vox Popoli: NATO Tries to Push the Timetable, Release the Memes, Arkhaven is Inevitable, and They Know and They’re Scared
Gab News: Forget National Politics, Let’s Get To Work – Oue 2023 Vision For Gab & The Parallel Economy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: WaPo Activism Posing As Religion Journalism
American Greatness: Cardiologist Peter McCullough: Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Likely Due to ‘COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Subclinical Myocarditis’, also, Latest Twitter Files Reveal Adam Schiff’s Collusion with Platform to Censor Opponents
American Thinker: It’s Time to Ask Whether Repeated mRNA Vaccine Shots Weaken the Immune Response to COVID-19, How Is The Uniparty Destroying America? Let Me Count The Ways, and The War in Ukraine has Underscored the Necessity of America Exiting NATO
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: University of Havana website hacked by Anonymous Cuba, Sister of cancer-stricken Cuban boy begs for medical assistance from abroad on social media, and Reports from Cuba: Honey, a profitable profession for Cuban beekeepers – when the state deigns to pay them
BattleSwarm: Zeihan: The Dollar’s Demise As The Global Currency Is Greatly Exaggerated
Behind The Black: Drainage out of a Martian crater, January 4, 2023 Quick space links, and Backlash against MIT’s blacklisting of teacher forces it to adopt Free Speech Resolution
Cafe Hayek: Trade, Tariffs, and Complexity
Da Tech Guy: Barbara Walters: The art of the interview for everyone, Speakers Race Bottom Line: Who can make the best deal?, We’ll Miss Charlie Baker When He’s Gone and a Belated Thanks, and My Speaker Suggestion: Raid a Blue State Minority Leader
Don Surber: Let’s Not Have World War III,
First Street Journal: Lies, damned lies, and statistics, also, Killadelphia: What’s going on with the statistics?
Gates Of Vienna: A Victory in Ontario for the Vaccine-Hesitant, Only the Good Die Young, and Celebrating Hogmanay in Berlin and Saxony
The Geller Report: COVER-UP: Jan 6 Committee Seals All Important VIDEOS and Docs for 50 Years
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Star Fleet’s Paw?, and Slow Blogging Today
Hollywood In Toto: Chazz Palminteri: ‘Art Can’t Be Safe’, also, It’s Official: Joe Rogan Beat Cancel Culture in 2022
The Lid: Temple Mount Controversy-Don’t Blame Itamar Ben Gvir-Blame Moshe Dayan
Legal Insurrection: Idaho Murder Suspect Identified through DNA and Genealogy Databases, Planned Parenthood Supports Hundreds of Pro-Abortion Groups on Campuses, House NeverKevins Defy Trump, Hamline University Under Fire for Not Renewing Art Prof’s Contract for Showing Images of Muhammad, and ProPublica/The Atlantic Investigation of CRT Pushback Focuses on “Something Called the Legal Insurrection Foundation”
Outkick: Shannon Sharpe Returned To Undisputed, Skip Bayless Interrupted Him 30 Seconds In And All Hell Broke Loose, Tailgating Not Allowed In SoFi Stadium Parking Lots Ahead Of CFP National Championship Game, Cowboys Linebacker Micah Parsons Shreds ESPN’s Bart Scott For Tee Higgins Comments, Carson Palmer Talks Damar Hamlin Incident on ‘Fox & Friends’, and Model Emily Ratajkowski Has Bad News For Football Fans
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Another Hump Day Shrapnel Post
Shark Tank: Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro Now Living In Florida
Shot In The Dark: Our Two National Liabilities, also, But Of Course
STUMP: Kentucky Asset Manager Warning: the ESG Brou-Ha-Ha Continues
This Ain’t Hell: Army Reservist pilloried by ATF, Russians blamed attack on their barracks on banned cell phone use, and There are Sharks in the Ocean
Transterrestrial Musings: Dear Restaurants, also, MMT
Victory Girls: Special K Claims Biden Worked On Border Security Since “Day One”, also, Polis Says NIMBY! Ships Illegals To NYC And Chicago
Volokh Conspiracy: Criticism by Public University Professor Isn’t “Under Color of Law,” Can’t Be Unconstitutional Retaliation
Watts Up With That: Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon Mobil, et al. Part 2: RICO-teering, also, WaPo Claims ‘Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence’
Weasel Zippers: WH Spox Can’t Say If Anyone In Biden Admin Actually Believes Border Is “Secure”, MSM Fawns Over “Tough,” “History-Making” Nancy Pelosi, Woke High School Hid Merit Awards From Students To Avoid “Hurt” Feelings, and Ouch: Biden Won’t Represent U.S. At Benedict’s Funeral, Per “Wishes Of The Late Pope”
The Federalist: Why Did Congress Remove Language From The Defense Bill Protecting Military Kids From Trans Insanity?, Kentucky GOP Treasurer Threatens 11 Banks With Divestment For Boycotting Fossil Fuels, Mediocre Copycat Musicians Who Flood Big Tech’s Algorithms Make Music Worse, and Our Ukraine Obsession Is Hanging Taiwan Out To Dry, And The Biden Administration Just Admitted It
Mark Steyn: Here We Go Again

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In The Mailbox: 01.03.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 4, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Newt Gingrich: Tan, Rested, Ready?, also, So many experts and evironmentalists want to depopulate the planet
Twitchy: Jordan Peterson Told To Submit To Reeducation, also, Rep. Adam Schiff’s Office Had Some Demands For Twitter After “Harassment By QAnon Conspiracists”
Louder With Crowder: NFL star collapses after life-threatening on-field collision – so fans flood his children’s charity with over $3 million, also, The bad boy of making movie popcorn takes the internet by storm because we live in silly times
Vox Popoli: The Ticket, You Say, False Promises, Fake AI, US Already Waging War on Russia, and The Most Likely Scenario

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: My Plan for American Renewal, also, Benedict XVI’s Apocalypse
American Greatness: Dr. Robert Malone Calls For International Tribunal to Investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak, Texas National Guard Places Razor Wire, Other Fortifications Along Southern Border, and Kari Lake Appeals Maricopa County Court’s Ruling In Midterm Election Lawsuit
American Power: Ken Block, Rally Car Racer and Hoonigan Founder, Killed Snowboarding in Utah
American Thinker: The Architecture of Corruption: Why Elon Musk is Justified to Call for the Prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci, also, The House Speaker Vote — Embarrassment, Indeed
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Demographics News
Babalu Blog: Happy New Year, you’re under arrest: Cuban dissident Berta Soler detained on the way to Sunday Mass, As Cuba’s Castro dictatorship continues its violent oppression, Canada offers nothing more than words, and Cuban stores sell rationed rum in bottles intended for cooking oil
BattleSwarm: Texas Border Control Update, also, Dear Restaurants: Shove Your Damn QR Codes
Behind The Black: SpaceX starts 2023 with first launch of year, Largest volcanic eruption in years detected on Io, Red China releases first update on status of Yutu-2 since September, and Pushback: Court denies school principal immunity from lawsuit for squelching free speech
Cafe Hayek: Some Racist, That Hutt!
CDR Salamander: Kaplan’s Elegant Decline at 15
Da Tech Guy: Don’t miss the The Catechism in a Year Podcast starting today, Summing up the Transgender Nonsense Succinctly, Report from Louisiana: Dodging Gunfire in Shreveport, and Five Quick Under the Fedora Thoughts
Don Surber: TV’s awful year, First trans execution is today, and Polluting the air to save the planet
First Street Journal: Killington: Lexington sets a new homicide record, also, It’s no wonder newspapers are failing; too many of them are being run as failures!
Gates Of Vienna: The Clever and the Stupid, Giovanni Donzelli: “Someone Will Have to Answer for This”, Sudden and Unexpected, and Wyrd Bið Ful Aræd Germania
The Geller Report: Japan Launches Official Investigation Into Millions of COVID Vaccine Deaths, Died Suddenly: Two NFL Football Players Struck Down On The Same Day, and Opposing McCarthy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Another Cat Picture on the Web, and They Did It Again
Hollywood In Toto: Man Called Otto Is All Wrong for Hanks…and Us, Will Golden Globes Swap Fun for Oscar-Like Lectures?, and 5 Reasons to Watch Animated Wingfeather Saga
The Lid: Are You A “Thought Criminal?”, also, Israel Should Put An End To Palestinian Diplomatic Terror
Legal Insurrection: McConnell to Host Biden in Kentucky to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, “Gender ideology is an attack on language, truth, and logic”, NY Times and WaPo Continue Smear Campaign Against Orthodox Jews As Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge, Migrant Gangs Armed with Fireworks Ambush German Police and Firefighters on New Year’s Eve, and House Adjourns After Kevin McCarthy Fails Three Times to Secure Speaker Position
Nebraska Energy Observer: What a guy!
Outkick: ESPN’s Bart Scott Falsely Accuses Tee Higgins Of Dirty Play That Threatened Damar Hamlin’s Life, Lincoln Riley Wasn’t In A Talkative Mood After Tulane Upset USC, Buffalo Sabres Support Damar Hamlin Before Game Against Washington, ‘LOL USC’ Trending As Trojans Blow Cotton Bowl Against Tulane, and ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky Halts Commentary On Damar Hamlin To Lead Fellow Reporters in Prayer
Shark Tank: Governor DeSantis – Florida Is #1!
Shot In The Dark: Stuck on Marginally Less Stupid, also, Cancel!
The Political Hat: Post-Conservative Right
This Ain’t Hell: McCarthy House election one in a century, also, ‘You are not New Yorkers’
Transterrestrial Musings: Paul Ehrlich, also, Walt Cunningham RIP
Victory Girls: Mark Levin: GOP Boneheads Are The Problem, also, McCarthy Short, House Adjourns Until Tomorrow
Volokh Conspiracy: Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?
Watts Up With That: Convicted Climate Activist: “we need … a different form of democracy”, Paul Ehrlich Claims Vindication for his Climate Catastrophe Prediction, and The Pied Piper Has No Clothes
Weasel Zippers: After 41+ Years, 83-Year-Old Outgoing Dem Caucus Leader Steny Hoyer Says He “May” Run Again In 2024, MSNBC Fantasizes About DeSantis Assassinating Trump, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Endorses “Hefty Lawsuits” To Force Social Media Companies To “Do Something”, and Obamacare Architect Tells Americans To Return To Wearing “Really High-Quality Masks”
The Federalist: How These Parents Helped Their Son Reject Transgender Lies And Affirm His Real Identity, Trump Is Wrong About The Efficacy And Resilience Of The Pro-Life Movement, There’s Nothing Wrong With Asking Questions About Damar Hamlin’s Sudden Collapse, and The New House Majority Must Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Mark Steyn: The Mark Steyn Show – live Monday to Thursday!, Diversity, Debt, and Decline, and Masks and Migrants

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In The Mailbox: 01.03.23 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 3, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.03.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in December. Very much appreciated!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Komi wishes you a happy new year!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Buffalo Blizzard Was Racist, also, Hollywood’s Woke 2022
EBL: Southwest Airlines Back In The Day, Cow, and Pope Benedict, RIP
Twitchy: NYT Brags About Bringing David French On Board, Pointing & Laughing Ensues, also, Taylor Lorenz’ Whining About Spending NYE Alone Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk embraces his inner edgelord as he points out how ‘creepy’ Anthony Fauci is, also, Our favorite Waffle House employee shares her version of events and it’s glorious
Vox Popoli: The Coming Big Tech Implosion, Never Wrong, Traffic Report 2022, and The Five Reasons for Failed Fantasy
Stoic Observations: 23, also, On Twitter Seduction
Gab News: The Gab Files – UK Government Demands We Ban A User For “Hatred”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 2022 – The Year of Clown World
American Conservative: Nord Stream Who?, also, Benedict XVI Has Died
American Greatness: The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship, also, House GOP to Investigate Federal Agencies for Abuse of Power
American Power: Andrew Tate Is Charged With Human Trafficking and Rape in Romania, Note From San Francisco, and The Privatization of Policing
American Thinker: Government by Gimmick Won’t Last, We Must Convince People That The Fascist Far Left Wants To Destroy The US, and Virtue Signaling Denver Mayor Unhappy that He’s Getting What He Asked for
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Nauseating picadillo (ground beef) sold to Cubans is the ultimate ‘mystery meat’, Slide show of the Day: Apartheid food fest for tourists in Cuba, Cuban ‘president’ delivers inspiring New Year’s message: Get ready, 2023 may be even worse, and Judge orders cruise lines to pay $400 million in damages for trafficking in stolen property in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Firefox Bungles Windows List In Update, also, Dave Barry’s 2022 Year In Review
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: The most sunspots since 2014, Hakuto-R successfully completes second mid-course correction, On the radio plus under the weather, and Rocketry went BOOM! in 2022, but in a good way
CDR Salamander: Theranos, FTX, Offsets, and Transformations
Chicago Boyz: New Frontiers in Censorship and Propaganda
Da Tech Guy: Pope Count is Back to one as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95 – Five Quick Thoughts, Navy HYT+….keeping mediocrity in 2023, A New Indulgence Calendar for a New Year (Next Month for Benedict), and Teach your kids to lie, blame others, and procrastinate so they will be ready for a career in politics
Don Surber: The Year Of The Fascists, Grooming was never right, New Year resolutions they should make, and Hastert, Boehner and Ryan are why McCarthy is sinking
First Street Journal: Killadelphia -The last update of 2022, How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange, and Killadelphia: Well, isn’t this interesting?
Gates Of Vienna: Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming, Welcoming the Soldiers of Allah to Austria, Br-r-r-!, and A Fundamental Right to Jihad
The Geller Report: EPIC WOKE FAILURE: NYC’s Electric Garbage Trucks Die In The Cold, Plunge City Into Chaos, New Text and Email Evidence: Pelosi Staff Secretly DECREASED Security at US Capitol for Jan 6 (While Pelosi Organized Film Crew For That Day), and Ray Epps Admits He ‘Orchestrated’ Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’
Hogewash: The Fog of War, An Unmolested Tweet, Tonight’s Sky: January, 2023, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Bardo: False Chronicles Is as Pretentious As It Sounds, Karma Comes for James Cameron & The Avatar Franchise, and Hollywood Reporter Runs Cover for Woke Disney
The Lid: Have Cancer Drugs Warped Putin’s Decision Making?, also, A Harvard President’s Pogrom Warning
Legal Insurrection: Illinois Supreme Court Temporarily Suspends Provision Eliminating Cash Bail, Massachusetts Prof Writes Book Detailing the Problem of ‘Deflective Whiteness’, Restaurant Group’s Lawsuit Temporarily Stops California’s New Fast Food Rules, Eastern Oregon County Sets Vote to Secede, Becoming 12th to Join of “Greater Idaho” Movement, and Democrats May Regret Releasing Trump’s Taxes
Nebraska Energy Observer: Wild West Saturday, First Sunday after Christmas, and The Cycle of History
Outkick: ‘Done Deal’ Jim Harbaugh Leaves Michigan If He Gets NFL Coaching Offer: Report, Mississippi State Honors Mike Leach With New Helmets, A Great View From Tampa’s Pirate Ship, Other Tributes, Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Diagnosed With Throat And Breast Cancer, Jim Harbaugh Teaches Steve Sarkisian How To Behave Like An Adult, and Fans Call For Ryan Day, Who Is 45-6, To Be Fired
Power Line: Environmentalists Are Killing People, The Trump tax returns, Sunday morning coming down, and One of the all time worst political liars
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Happy New Year!
Shark Tank: Florida-Based Farm Share Is #1 Food Bank In America
Shot In The Dark: Pouring Water Next To The Fire,
STUMP: RIP, Pope Emeritus Benedict – Ring Out 2022 with Dies Irae
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Marines to leverage X-ray scanners to measure body fat composition, Another Dark Money post, and Tyranny of the Marketplace
Transterrestrial Musings: EVs, The Covid Cult, and Hallelujah
Victory Girls: Pelosi Reaches Into Taxpayer Pockets On Her Way Out as Speaker, Ray Epps “Orchestrated” January 6, and McCarthy Negotiates With GOP Holdouts
Volokh Conspiracy: US News Makes Beneficial Changes to its Law School Rankings System
Watts Up With That: Daily Mail Turns to Nostradamus for Climate Change Advice, “We Quit”: Extinction Rebellion Announces an End to Disruption, and The Net Zero Road to Nowhere
Weasel Zippers: NC State Broadcaster Suspended Indefinitely For Saying “Illegal Aliens” During Broadcast, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Calls For Regulations On Social Media For “Misinformation, Disinformation”, Maryland Dem: We Don’t Want GOP Investigating Biden’s Botched Afghan Withdrawal, and Kamala Harris Says She Has “Profound Concern” Over “Misinformation And Disinformation” On Twitter
The Federalist: 60 Minutes Exhumes Enviro Cult Leader For A New Round Of Scaremongering, We Can Celebrate Pope Benedict By Keeping ‘Encounter’ And ‘Truth’ At The Center Of Christianity, Despite King Charles’ Globalist Tendencies, His First Christmas Address Embraced England’s Unique Cultural Identity, and How The Finance Regulatory Authority Allegedly Protecting Retail Investors Is Screwing Them Over
Mark Steyn: Fee Fi Fo Fum: Happily Breaking No New Ground with Troll, also, It Was a Very Good Year

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‘Monday Night Football’ Postponed; Buffalo Player Critically Injured

Posted on | January 2, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Monday Night Football’ Postponed; Buffalo Player Critically Injured

Damar Hamlin, a second-year safety for the Buffalo Bills, was rushed to a hospital where he is reported in critical condition after paramedics spent 10 minutes on the field administering CPR.

UPDATE: I was texting with Instapundit right after this happened and he asked, “What kind of hit was it?” And I said, just a bang-bang play, and he got up right after it, but then . . . Boom. He fell over. It reminds me, in a way, of Dale Earnhardt’s fatal crash. When you saw it happen, it didn’t look any worse than a lot of other NASCAR crashes, but it just happened to kill him. And if, as now seems likely, Damar Hamlin doesn’t make it, people will be watching video of this play over and over wondering how or why this particular hit proved to be fatal.

Prayers Up for Damar Hamlin ? pic.twitter.com/JwxiBIWmZA

— Geeks + Gamers (@GeeksGamersCom) January 3, 2023

UPDATE II: The report is that Hamlin had a heartbeat, but wasn’t breathing on his on, and has been “intubated,” as they say. Trying to figure out why this happened is going to be a long process, and some people on Twitter are asking, “Vaccine?” But no, there’s no reason to suspect it’s one of those cases. Something about the hit itself — cerebral hemorrhage? I don’t know. It’s a mystery at this point.

Selfishly, all I can think about is how it’s ruined my usual Monday night routine of falling asleep during the game, not to mention how it might impact the Patriots, who are scheduled to play Buffalo next Sunday with their playoff hopes on the line. On the one hand, Buffalo’s loss of their starting safety would improve the chances of a New England win, but on the other hand, you don’t want it to happen this way, and it’s in poor taste even to mention it. Injuries are just part of the NFL and, of the eight games the Patriots have won this season, seven of them were against teams forced to play backup quarterbacks because of injuries to the starter. Sunday, for example, Miami started the game with Teddy Bridgewater at quarterback because the Dolphins starter, Tua Tagovailoa, was in concussion protocols. Then, in the third quarter, Bridgewater suffered a broken finger, and the Dolphins had to use third-stringer Skylar Thompson, a rookie picked in the seventh round. New England managed to win that game 23-21 and, so what? Injuries happen.

But to have a player killed in a game? As far as I know, it’s never happened in the NFL, and why did it have to happen on Monday night in a key AFC matchup with playoff consequences? My purely selfish attitude toward this situation may be a defense mechanism, a way to cope by avoiding emotional pain. Or maybe I’m just an asshole.

Anyway, let’s pray Damar Hamlin survives and makes a full recovery.

We are all #billsmafia tonight. Prayers for Damar Hamlin? pic.twitter.com/6QwwGnbZZF

— FPLCareless (@fplcareless) January 3, 2023

UPDATE III: Good news?

UPDATE: Damar Hamlin’s vitals are back to normal and they have put him to sleep with a breathing tube in his throat. Doctors will continue to run tests and we will keep you updated ? pic.twitter.com/HuZNF9ucBa

— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) January 3, 2023

So he’s still alive, and by the way, Damar Hamlin had a GoFundMe to raise money to buy toys for children. It’s raised over $700,000 since he got injured. I donated. You should, too.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

Posted on | January 2, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You probably don’t know who Robert McGinnis is, but you almost certainly recognize his art: in addition to drawing the covers for hundreds of action & romance paperbacks for over fifty years, he also created the extremely memorable movie posters for Breakfast At Tiffany’s and Barbarella as well as several James Bond and Matt Helm movies. This is cover art from Ladies Home Journal or possibly the Saturday Evening Post; the Pinterest page didn’t say.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1946, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Alaska Independence Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – Trump’s Tax Returns, Maureen McGovern, Barbara Walters RIP, The Invitation, Pele RIP, The Recruit, Boxing Day, Sarah McLachlan, The Waitresses, and Kari Lake.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Cate Blanchette, Fish Pic Friday – Ava Bart, Thursday Tanlines, Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Is It Time to Open Presents? and Silent Night

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: New Year’s Eve Edition

Posted on | January 1, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: New Year’s Eve Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, as the Bard once wrote (copying others before him) and while I sympathize with folks who took it in the shorts this year thanks to Bidenflation*, I dasn’t complain too loudly, myself. Despite the year’s miserable beginnings in Provo’s Utah Valley Hospital, I had a really good tax season (my best since 2015 when I left the Washington area for Las Vegas) and the rest of the year was pretty good too. Here’s hoping 2023 is better for everyone.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

I’M NOT TRAPPED IN HERE WITH YOU! YOU’RE TRAPPED IN HERE WITH ME! (cartoon by @TGBComic on Twitter via Twitchy)

Elliot Rodger and Nick Fuentes: The Satanic Politics of Self-Destruction
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Christmas Eve Edition
A View From The Beach
EBL

Have a Holly Jolly (Commie) Christmas
357 Magnum
EBL

Long Season for the ’Bama Boys
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: St. Stephen’s Day Edition
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

‘I Don’t Talk to the Police, Sir’
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.27.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 12.28.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Why Have Democrat-Controlled Schools Become Such Cesspits of Racism?
The DaleyGator
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In The Mailbox: 12.29.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

BREAKING: Suspect in Idaho Student Murders Was Criminology Grad Student UPDATE: Killer Is ‘Obsessive’ Vegan?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 12.30.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the last week in December 2022:

EBL (12)
357 Magnum (9)
A View From The Beach (6)
Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links, and Happy New Year!

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Another Bloody Year in ‘Killadelphia’

Posted on | December 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Another Bloody Year in ‘Killadelphia’

Murders declined slightly this year in Philadelphia. Through Monday, Dec. 26, the city had recorded 512 homicides this year — down from a record 562 in 2021 — according to the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Most of the victims were young Black men, with the violence intensely concentrated in neighborhoods where poverty, blight, and other systemic disadvantages collide.
The number of people who were shot and survived — nearly 1,800 through Monday — also rivaled last year’s record-setting pace.
And while other crime categories, particularly those not involving guns, had been declining over the last few years to decades-long lows, police statistics show several offenses had marked increases in 2022: Commercial burglaries were up by 41% compared to last year, retail thefts by 51%, and auto thefts by 30%.
More than 2,800 robberies involved guns this year, police said — about 55 per week — a 22% increase over last year, and the highest annual tally since 2015. . . .
Interviews in recent weeks with violence survivors, community advocates, and law enforcement officials, as well as data on the issue, show some clear trends: Guns continue to proliferate, carjackings have hit record levels, and the effects are being felt widely across impacted communities.
As shootings and homicides have hit sustained new highs, so has the proliferation of the weapons used to commit them.
For the third straight year, according to police statistics, around 90% of all homicides were committed by gun, about 15% higher than both the state and national average.
Police also recovered more than 6,000 so-called crime guns — firearms typically recovered at crime scenes, in drug busts, or from people accused of possessing them illegally. That’s nearly double the tally from just four years ago.

Notice how the Inquirer, after acknowledging that this problem is disproportionately concentrated in the black community, immediately offers the excuse of “systemic disadvantage,” as if poverty (and “blight,” whatever that means) could somehow explain the recent increase in criminal violence. But has there been an increase in “disadvantage” since 2017, when Philadelphia recorded only 259 homicides? No, of course there has been no such thing, and therefore you can’t blame “blight” for the fact that Philadelphia’s deadly violence roughly doubled in a span of four years, 2017-2021, and has just slightly declined this year after setting an all-time record last year. What does explain it, then?

The George Floyd riots of 2020, and the subsequent implementation of “criminal justice reforms,” are the obvious explanatory factors. As for the impact of these national trends in Philadelphia, the drift toward “social Justice” (i.e., irresponsible leniency) in the city was aggravated by the 2017 election of Soros-backed Larry Krasner as the city’s district attorney.

“There is a new culture of disrespect for law enforcement in this City that is promoted and championed by District Attorney Larry Krasner . . . We’ve now endured over a year and a half of the worst kinds of slander against law enforcement — the DA routinely calls police and prosecutors corrupt and racist, even ‘war criminals’ that he compares to Nazis.”
— U.S. Attorney William McSwain, 2019

Here’s a question: Did Larry Krasner create the “culture of disrespect for law enforcement” in Philadelphia or, as I rather suspect, was Krasner’s election an expression of a pre-existing anti-police sentiment in the city?

Joe Biden got 81% of the vote in Phiadelphia in 2020. Hillary Clinton got 83% of the vote in Philadelphia in 2016. No matter who the Democrats nominate for any national or statewide office in Pennsylvania — even the brain-damaged John Fetterman — that candidate will get 80% of the vote in Philadelphia. Are people who vote for Democrats expressing respect for law enforcement? Or are they instead expressing sympathy for the kind of criminals who are terrorizing Philadelphia?

Democrats are the anti-cop, pro-criminal party, and electing Democrats is an invitation to crime. No one should be surprised that deadly violence prevails in Philadelphia — or Chicago, Baltimore, etc. This is what the residents of those cities voted for when they elected Democrats.

Because the media are controlled by “Democratic Party operatives with bylines,” crime is reported in a deliberately misleading way, as reporters strive to conceal the real causes of crime — i.e., the “culture of disrespect for law enforcement” that produces a political alliance between criminals and Democrats. More from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Carjackings, another gun-related crime, have continued to rise at a startling pace. Police said more than 1,300 carjackings were reported this year, a 53% increase over last year and nearly six times the annual total reported just three years ago.
Eleven people were shot during carjackings this year, police said, and officers made 274 carjacking arrests, sometimes for charges connected to violence, other times for theft or unauthorized use of a vehicle.
Police and community members say the rise in the crime is fueled in part by young people using the cars for joyrides around the city, or to commit additional crimes. Criminal justice experts have also pointed to the increased value of used cars, plus electronic key fobs and heightened vehicle security that require robbers to confront drivers for their keys.

The word for this is deflection — blame guns, rather than criminals, for the increased number of carjackings and, while you’re at it, bring in “experts” to cite irrelevant facts, as if “electronic key fobs” and other anti-theft technology didn’t exist prior to the past three years. The real reason that carjackings have skyrocketed is that Krasner won’t prosecute criminals, and the criminals know this, so they’ve run rampant.

Probably the main reason homicide declined in the past year is because not all victims are innocent victims — bad guys killing each other reduced the number of would-be killers. Dozens of ~~Biden voters~~ criminals getting killed? Who says there’s no good news from Philadelphia?