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Looting Nordstrom and Other Recent News From Zimbabwe, U.S.A.

Posted on | August 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Looting Nordstrom and Other Recent News From Zimbabwe, U.S.A.

Another weekend in the decline and fall of Western civilization:

Shocking video captured a mob-style smash-and-grab robbery at a mall in Topanga and police are now searching for up to 30 suspects involved.
Police said it happened around 4:15 p.m. Saturday at the Nordstrom store inside Westfield Topanga Mall.
Video shared by an Instagram user shows the large group of suspects smashing display cases, grabbing merchandise and running out the door.
Police said a security guard at the store was sprayed with either Mace pepper spray or bear spray. Between 20 to 30 suspects were involved and all fled the scene in several vehicles, including a BMW, a Lexus and a Honda, police said.
“I really didn’t understand at first what was going on and then I recognized what was really happening when all the security … everybody was going to the one area,” said a witness.
Investigators said the group stole between $60,000 and $100,000 worth of merchandise.
“We were sitting having coffee and all of a sudden, we saw so many people running out of the store,” said another witness. “We were not in the store. We were at the entry of the store … so many people coming out.”
Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued the following statement Saturday evening:

“What happened today at the Nordstrom in the Topanga Mall is absolutely unacceptable. Those who committed these acts and acts like it in neighboring areas must be held accountable. The Los Angeles Police Department will continue to work to not only find those responsible for this incident but to prevent these attacks on retailers from happening in the future.”

“Absolutely unacceptable,” says the mayor who was elected by these same criminals. That’s just it — California has become the world’s first mass kleptocracy. All the honest people have left the state, and the criminals have taken over. Everybody is stealing everything:

Proposition 47 . . . reduced penalties on property thefts less than $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor. This means no prison time. Charges for grand larceny (a felony) now require thefts of more than $950 – more than double the previous threshold of $400.
Now, not only will a thief steal more without facing a felony charge, they may steal again, and again, and again, without serious consequences. Each theft is counted as a single incident. The law allows for serial thefts. Thieves can repeat their criminal behavior as long as they don’t steal more than $950 in each larceny.

Proposition 47 passed with 60% of the vote in 2014, and opponents of the measure clearly warned that this would happen, so it’s not as if the people of California are victims — they inflicted this disaster on themselves.

More than a decade ago, I began comparing California to the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe:

The thievish, parasitical mentality of liberals, who view taxpayers only a source of plunder, eventually runs head-on into economic reality. Capital is portable, and predatory governments will eventually cause disinvestment, as investors seek opportunities elsewhere. As investment flees, private-sector employment stagnates and declines, and smart young people leave to find someplace where they have a chance to get ahead.

Once this trend reaches a tipping point — and Jerry Brown’s return to the governorship in 2011 seems to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back in California — the collapse accelerates. Decent people refuse to live in such conditions, and now that California has chased away every decent person who formerly resided there — my friend Dianna Deeley left the San Francisco Bay area and moved to Valdosta, Georgia — they are living with the nightmarish consequences. And they still don’t get it.

When a woman in San Francisco took to TikTok to share her shock at having someone spit in her face when she went to the grocery store, the Twitter account Comfortably Smug pointed out that just a couple of years earlier, this same woman had urged her fellow liberals to “vote as if you were the most marginalized, oppressed person you know.”

Yeah, how’s that working out for you, sweetheart?



 

Category: California

In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | August 16, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Off to the VA tomorrow, back Thursday. Blogging may be (more) erratic.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Chicago Really Was A Great City
EBL: The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ukraine Summer 2023, and Flashback Election Denial: Stacy Abrams Refusing To Concede Georgia Governor Race
Twitchy: Is Geraldo OK?, Three Positions On The Joint Chiefs Of Staff Vacant For The First Time, and Why Is It Forbidden To Question The 2020 Election?
Louder With Crowder: 80s TV star gets angry her movie was sold to a network that promotes “family values” so she’s doing something in response, Rapper 50 Cent is getting the last laugh after viral flash mob attacks Los Angeles Nordstrom: “Told ya so”, and Budweiser blasted for latest desperate attempt to win back customers (that rips off pro-America competitor Yuengling)
Vox Popoli: Converged From Birth, Their Children Write Their Epitaphs, The Risk of Computerized Cars, and Are the Lahaina Fires Fake?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Week of Summer Prayer
American Conservative: A Warning for Oliver Anthony
American Greatness: Trump Announces That He Will Share ‘Irrefutable’ Report Next Week on ‘Rigged’ 2020 Election in Georgia, Government Employees Told to Work From Home Due to Crime Crisis Near Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, and FBI Agent: Biden Transition Team, Secret Service were Warned About 2020 Plans to Interview Hunter
American Thinker: Ballot Harvesting — Only The Brain Dead Believe It Now!
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Paleo-anthropology News
Babalu Blog: Inflation forces Cuban parents to choose between buying food or school uniforms for their children, Cuban ‘Ironman’ entertains his fellow noble savages by pounding his body with a sledgehammer, and They are dancing sort of a Trump tango in Argentina
Baldilocks: Memories Of The First Life, Part 1, also, Tools & Excuses
BattleSwarm: F16s = Fatigue For Soviet Aircraft?
Behind The Black: Intuitive Machines sets mid-November launch date for its Nova-C lunar lander, Webb confirms galaxy as one of the earliest known in the universe, Ingenuity’s 55th flight completed, The impact that almost cracked Mars open, and We are becoming a nation of barbarians
CDR Salamander: Russians Advance The Ratchet Another Click In The Black Sea
Da Tech Guy: Rethinking support for Ukraine, also, The Actual Question Concerning the Left
Dana Loesch: Trump Indictment 4.0
Don Surber: National Review Crashes & Burns Over “Rich Men North Of Richmond”
First Street Journal: The Islamic Terrorists are still a threat
Gates Of Vienna: Another Skirmish in the Burkini Wars, AfD Candidate Beaten up by Migrants, Things to Come — Life in Woke Britain, and Culture-Enriching Rogue Cops in Berlin
The Geller Report: Hawaii: Vacationing Biden Says “No Comment” To WORST Fire Disaster in Nation’s History, Hundred Dead, Thousand Still “Missing”
Glenn Reynolds: Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa
Hogewash: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Disinformation, M104 in IR, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Dazed and Confused Is So Much More Than a Stoner Classic, Pop Culture Crisis Star Mary Morgan Won’t Say ‘Get Woke Go Broke’, Bill Maher: College is ‘Bulls***,’ a ‘Scam’, and Media Downplay Oliver Anthony’s Overnight Success (And We Know Why)
The Lid: Israel’s Unity Is Our Secret Weapon
Legal Insurrection: Judge Sanctions Southwest’s Attorneys, Orders ‘Religious-Liberty Training’ by Alliance Defending Freedom, Mark Meadows Files To Remove Georgia State Prosecution To Federal Court, U. Chicago Survey: 30 Million Americans Think Violence Justified to Stop Trump From Winning the Presidency, DeSantis and Other GOP Presidential Candidates Respond to Trump’s Georgia Indictment, and Kansas Paper Raided by Police was Investigating Police Chief Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Nebraska Energy Observer: Uh-oh!
Outkick: Carli Lloyd On USWNT: ‘I Was The Only One Brave Enough To Say How It Is’, Tuohy Family Claims Ex-NFLer Michael Oher Attempted $15 Million ‘Shakedown’ Before Filing Petition Against Conservatorship, Air Force Football Uniforms Will Honor The WWII Moment When America Landed A Right Hook On Japan’s Jaw, Sage Steele Won, Haley Cavinder Hates Weak Men: ‘Can’t Stand Any Sense Of Softness’, and Tim Tebow Joins Dan Dakich To Advocate For Fairness In Women’s Sports
Power Line: I Read the Georgia Indictment, So You Don’t Have To, Take a load off Fani, and The Prophet of Power Density
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Chastises Biden For Blocking School Hunter Education Funds
Shot In The Dark: Mitch’s DFL Translation Service, Tea Leaves, and False Idols
The Political Hat: Modern Education: The Individual Or The Collective
This Ain’t Hell: Sikh graduates Marine Basic, also, Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg fight confirmed-proceeds to go to veterans charities
Victory Girls: Salon, Snow White and the Woke War on Women
Volokh Conspiracy: Time to Pass the Afghan Adjustment Act
Watts Up With That: Heat Pumps Not Good Enough for Chris Stark!, Kids Win Montana Climate Change Lawsuit, and Comments From Supporters of EPA’s New Power Plant Rule
The Federalist: The Longer Republicans Sit On Their Hands, The More Likely America’s Self-Destruction Becomes Irreversible, Trump’s Georgia Indictment Shows The Democrat Political Prosecutions Are So Much Worse Than The Supposed Crimes, Biden Ships $200 Million To Ukraine While American Soldiers Go Hungry, Merrick Garland Reminds Us Regularly Why He’s Never Deserved To Sit On The Supreme Court, Oliver Anthony Strikes A Chord Where The Right And Left Agree: Our Failed Elites, and If Saying An Election Is Stolen Is A Crime, Why Isn’t Stacey Abrams In Prison?
Mark Steyn: Beyond the Bollards (Out Of Time Part X) 

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CNN’s Endless Indictment Orgasm

Posted on | August 15, 2023 | Comments Off on CNN’s Endless Indictment Orgasm

Because my office TV was tuned to CNN today, I got to hear more-or-less endless “reporting” about the Fulton County indictment of Trump. This is all banana republic stuff, a circus performance to excite Democrats and distract the public from Biden’s scandals and general incompetence.

But oh! How the CNN anchors stroked themselves into paroxysms of orgasmic bliss today! They’ve invented a new genre — indictment porn, with Fani Willis as the new superstar performer. Sure, they got some thrills out of the New York indictment, and then the two indictments from Jack Smith, but this indictment — with a BLACK WOMAN prosecuting the hated Trump — finally pushed them over the edge.

CNN analyst Stephen Collinson:

The most astonishing aspect of former President Donald Trump’s fourth criminal indictment is not the scale of an alleged multi-layered conspiracy to steal Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020 from their rightful winner.
It is that Trump – the accused kingpin of the scheme to overturn Joe Biden’s victory, who was charged on Monday along with 18 others — could in 17 months be raising his right hand as the 47th president and swearing to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution he was accused of plotting to shred.
The grave political crisis created by Trump’s aberrant presidency and subsequent efforts to hold him to account deepened significantly just before midnight [Monday] with the unsealing of yet another indictment against him — this one from a grand jury in the critical swing state of Georgia. The charges in this state case — which bring to 91 the total number of criminal charges he’s facing across four separate cases — intensified an already epochal collision between Trump’s now extreme legal quagmire and the 2024 election in which he is the front-runner for the Republican nomination.
The 98-page indictment includes 41 counts that chart in stunning detail an alleged conspiracy to pressure local officials, make false statements about electoral fraud to state legislatures, harrass election workers, and solicit Justice Department officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence. It also alleges an attempt to unlawfully breach election equipment in Georgia and elsewhere and includes a list of actions by Trump and associates it says were all attempts to advance the conspiracy.

Love those adjectives. Now go take a shower, you sick freak.



 

Category: CNN, Donald Trump

In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 15, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Early Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 3, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Blame Hawaii Democrats For Maui Fires, Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond, Cologne Cathedral Completed, and Georgia Indictment? Does this mean no library for Donald J. Trump?
Twitchy: Glenn Greenwald Roasts “True Conservative” David French, Laura Loomer Outs “Racist, Transphobic, & Homophobic” “Max Nordau”, and National Review Tells Us The Song Oliver Anthony Should Have Written
Louder With Crowder: Lizzo dropped from Super Bowl consideration amid alleged fat-shaming, Barack Obama wrote to ex-girlfriend that he fantasized about sexing up dudes in newly discovered redacted letter, and Rolling Stone leads the expected media attacks against Oliver Anthony and “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Vox Popoli: The Unaccountable, How to Fail, Vocation and Articulation, They Can’t Hide the Bodies, and SF is Dying and LA is Next
Stoic Observations: With No Further Assistance Or Guidance From You
Gab News: Academics Shocked By Study Comparing Gab & Facebook 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Should a Woman save her Husband or her Child?
American Conservative: Why Bill Watterson Vanished, also, The Other Populist in the Race
American Greatness: Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth, Introducing Contempt of Public, and GOP Critics Call Appointment of David Weiss to Special Counsel an Attempt to ‘Whitewash’ Biden Family Corruption
American Thinker: Comparing the Tactics of the Dems to the Nazis is No Longer Seen as Unreasonable, The Weaponization of Justice, and Of Course the Climate Has Always Been Changing
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Russian tourists complain of nightmarish experiences in their Cuban ‘dream holidays’, Cuba’s medical crisis totally ignored by UN, EU, capitalist governments and world’s fawning news media, Cuban dictatorship launches new propaganda campaign in the U.S., Slide show: Havana’s fountains prove the city is dying of thirst — except at apartheid hotels, of course, and Cuba’s self-employed face eight-fold increase in their social security taxes
Baldilocks: Evil Twin
BattleSwarm: Red China’s New Enemy: Deflation, Red China Is Screwed: Pipe People, and Ruble Now A Penny
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 3B launches radar satellite, Axiom signs deal with Poland and ESA to send Polish astronaut to Axiom’s future space station, Residual ice on the shaded north-facing slope of northern Martian crater, Chandrayaan-3 completes next-to-last orbital maneuver before releasing Vikram lander, and Today’s blacklisted American: Gestapo in Kansas raid home of 98-year-old newspaper owner, causing her death
Cafe Hayek: A “Climate Psychology Certificate Program”?
CDR Salamander: Red China’s Summer From The Aleutians To Guadalcanal, also, Industrial Security At Last?
Chicago Boyz: Disturbing
Da Tech Guy: Modern students suck, The Single Best Explanation of “Woke” Christianity Actually is, The studio albums by The Band, ranked, and DeSantis 2024 is to the GOP Deepstate Establishment what Greek Food is to Leonard Hofstadter
Dana Loesch: Trump Charges Leaked In Georgia?, 
Don Surber: It’s Our Party & We’ll Trump If We Want To
First Street Journal: The Feds believe that conservative Catholics are an extremist threat, Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and The left want poorer, minority neighborhoods to have nicer things, but fret that them having nicer things will attract more white people to move in!
Gates Of Vienna: It Ain’t Over Till the Imam Sings, Paul Weston: “Question Everything”, What’s a Few Death Threats Among Friends?, On the Beach, and Deportation? What’s That?
The Geller Report: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Confirms 10K Voter Registrations Delivered to Muskegon Clerk in October 2020 Were FRAUDULENT, Bribed Biden Asks for ANOTHER $40 Billion in Additional Nazi Ukraine Aid, and Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’
Hogewash: A Hazy Lenticular Galaxy, A Cosmic Ribbon, A Rocket Launch As Seen From The ISS, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and A Birthday
Hollywood In Toto: Judy Greer Shines (Yet Again) in Aporia, Shape of Shadows Looks Beyond Paranormal Hot Spot, Tom MacDonald’s ‘Your America’: Destructive Ideologies Come from the Left, and Jim Carrey’s Truman Show Predicted Our Binge-Watching Age
The Lid: Hunter’s New Special Council Appointment Is A False Flag, also, Bring Back ‘Redskins’ Movement Is Gaining Steam, And LOOK Who’s Driving It!
Legal Insurrection: George Washington U. Cuts Ties With Group Following Vote of Support for BDS, Trump Indicted on 13 Counts in Georgia 2020 Election Probe, West Virginia University Planning to Cut a Dozen Majors, Reduce Staff, NY Democrat: Erie County Won’t Take More Migrants After Second Alleged Assault Involving Asylum Seeker, U.S. Energy Industry Warns Biden EPA’s Proposed Carbon Emissions Rules are ‘Unworkable’, and Maui’s Wildfire Disaster: Media Pushes ‘Climate Crisis’ Cause, People Are Pushing Back
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Tenth Sunday after Trinity, and Remembrance and Legacy
Outkick: Male Powerlifter Sets Another Women’s Record At Canadian Championship; Riley Gaines, Martina Navratilova React, Michael Oher Alleges Tuohy Family Tricked Him, Never Adopted Him, And That He Lost Out On Millions In ‘Blind Side’ Movie, Tim Tebow Has No Regrets About How His Faith May Have Impacted His NFL Career, Mark Zuckerberg Pulls Out Of Fight With Elon Musk, Claims Tesla CEO ‘Isn’t Serious’, Russell Wilson Ruthlessly Mocked By Cardinals After Preseason Loss, and Joe Thomas Reveals The Moment He Knew Johnny Manziel Was Going To Be A Problem
Power Line: Why Weiss?, Whither the Weather?, Consequences of Eroding Meritocracy, and The Great Realignment
Shark Tank: Frost Whines Suspension Of Worrell Is “Fascism”
Shot In The Dark: Life & Death In A Blue Sinecure, also, Their Best Interests
This Ain’t Hell: “Oh, My Stars, My Linda’s Gone to Mars” – David Grusch again, Skittles’ “Black Trans Lives Matter” Slogan Stirs Uproar, A real feel-good story, Treamon Lacy is indicted for crashing Humvee at Fort Stewart headquarters, and Flag Promotions Threatened!
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden Corruption Coverage, California’s Math Framework, The Pros And Cons Of Living In Each State, The Fix Is In, and AI
Victory Girls: Harry Sisson, Screeching Child, Democrat Shill, Doesn’t Know History, Trans Widow Details Dark Side of The Ideology, and RFK Jr. Flip-Flops On Abortion Limits Because He’s A Democrat
Volokh Conspiracy: Prof. Michael McConnell, Responding About the Fourteenth Amendment, “Insurrection,” and Trump
Watts Up With That: Comments On The Insanity Of EPA’s New Power Plant Rule, The Origin of the Hawaii Fires/Preventing a Similar Tragedy in the Future, Biden-backed electric vehicle company files for bankruptcy, Europe’s Self-Imposed Energy Crisis: Paying Homage to Gaia, and Great Reset U-Turn: British Mainstream Political Parties are Road Testing Anti-Green Policies
The Federalist: Generational Divides Show The Dangers Of Discarding What Makes Us Great, To Beat Leftist Groupthink, Put Down Your Phone And Pick Up A Hobby, Two Years Later, We Know The Deadly Fall Of Kabul Didn’t Have To Happen This Way, Ruth Marcus’ Alito Attack Is Grossly Hypocritical Considering Her Endorsement Of Nina Totenberg’s Work, 6 Takeaways From The Biden Admin’s Court Quest To Keep Censoring Americans Online, With The ‘Suicide Card,’ Transgender Activists Weaponize Kindness, and What My Family’s Bloody History In The Spanish Civil War Teaches About The FBI’s Assault On Catholics
Mark Steyn: No More Heroes Any More: Noir Goes to London in Night and the City, Nessun dorma, and When the Edge of the Map Moves Inward

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Category: Linkagery

‘Huddled Masses’ Update: Why Is This ‘Crisis’ Costing New York Billions?

Posted on | August 14, 2023 | 1 Comment

Our moral and intellectual superiors:

New York City’s surging migrant population is set to double by June 2024 — meaning the city will be on the hook for 100,000 homeless immigrants — as costs are estimated to rise to a mind-boggling high of $12 billion over the next three years.
“We are past our breaking point,” Mayor Adams declared in a dire address at City Hall Wednesday, pleading with the feds and everyday New Yorkers to help mitigate the crisis.
The city currently spends a nightly average of $383 per 25,600 asylum-seeker households, including families with kids, adult couples and singles — for housing, food and other services, according to officials.
“With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day. Almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year,” the mayor said.
“This is the floor, not the ceiling,” he warned, revealing the city’s current expenses could rise even further.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

Apparently, no one else has bothered doing the arithmetic here. Saturday night on The Other Podcast, this topic was raised by John Hoge who had a post about a similar “crisis” in Massachusetts. The reason Democrat-controlled “blue” states are now caterwauling about their “crisis” is that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whose state has been coping for years with the flood of illegal immigrants caused by the failure of the federal government to secure the border, decided to start sending busloads of these asylum seekers to the places where liberals vote for “sanctuary laws” and elect liberal Democrats who embrace such policies.

Yes, but what about the arithmetic? Adams speaks of “25,600 asylum-seeker households” costing the city $383 per day or, by another calculus, “57,300 individuals” who cost the city $9.8 million a day — which simple division tells me amounts to $171.03 per “individual.” Multiply that by 365 days of the year, and this means that New York City is spending $62,425.83 per year on each member of its “surging migrant population.”

Every man, woman and child of these “huddled masses” is consuming, at taxpayer expense, a sum nearly $10,000 a year greater than the median household income in Alabama. Of course, the migrants themselves get nary a nickel of that spending, which is funneled through a vast bureaucracy and into the coffers of non-profit social-service charities, so that what most of this money actually goes to is keeping sociology majors employed. Also, a lot of the money is paid to rent hotel rooms for the “57,300 individuals,” so that spending $9.8 million a day functions as a subsidy to hotel owners, and also guaranteeing employment for the hotel maids whose job it is to clean up after the “huddled masses.”

While it is not my habit to offer advice to liberal Democrats, perhaps Mayor Adams will heed this suggestion: New York City can help these migrants, and ultimately end the city’s refugee “crisis,” by the simple expedient of (a) giving money directly to the migrants, on condition that (b) they leave New York. Basically, offer them a free one-way plane ticket and guarantee them $3,000 a month for the first six months in their new place of residence, on condition that they never return to New York.

For a lump-sum expenditure of less than $20,000, you thereby save the taxpayers of New York $40,000 a year going forward. Oh, and I should add, that’s $3,000 a month for each member of the migrant household, including children, so that a family of four would get $12,000 a month for six months after their relocation from New York. And you know something, Mayor Adams? There are lots of places in this country — certainly Alabama is among them — where any family with a monthly income of $12,000 would be considered wealthy. Hell, these migrants could be living it up like the Kardashians, if only you’d do it my way.

Perhaps readers now understand why it’s not my habit to offer advice to liberal Democrats — my ideas are just too pure genius for them.



 

Category: Immigration, New York

Rule 5 Sunday: Potato On The Beach

Posted on | August 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Potato On The Beach

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Many many weeks ago I posted a pic of Vietnamese model Potato Godzilla cosplaying as Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Here’s a recent pic of her on the beach.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Failing Bidenomics Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anti-MAGA David Weiss, Happy Birthday Red Dawn, Psycho, Pearl, Wife Shoots Husband’s Attacker Dead, The Right To Bear Butterfly Knives, Atomic Women, and “Miss Atomic Bomb”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Chiara Stile, Maryland, My Maryland, ASMFC Continues Ban on Bagging Big Bass, Fish Pic Friday – Destiny Cockrell, Maryland to Provide Support for Invasive Species, Tattoo Thursday, Random Celebrity News, The Wednesday Wetness, Psycho, Barr, Pence Willing to Testify “Against” Trump?, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and Oregon, My Oregon

FLAPPR: Assorted Stimulating Subjects, by guest poster Mujahed Kobbe (PBUH)

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

 

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This was a bad week for the Senators. It started well enough, as we took two out of three from the Angels in Anaheim, but then we went to Shea and got swept by the Day Traders, and came home to drop two out of three to the Hated Yankees. Our manager was Not Pleased, and barricaded himself in his office with a case each of Narragansett Beer and Moxie, after ritually smashing the water coolers to propitiate the baseball gods. We’ll host the Twins on Tuesday, and hopefully we’ll do better than we did last time. Still, we’re just a game behind the A’s and 2.5 up on the Twins, and the season is far from over.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

News From San Francisco: ‘A Lot of People Around Here Have Mental Issues’
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
357 Magnum
EBL

Everybody Keeps Indicting Trump, Without Regard for Consequences
The Pirate’s Cove
Gregor Mendel’s Blog
The DaleyGator
Instapundit
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

First Person Plural Pronouns
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: On The Road
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Public Benefactors
A View From The Beach
EBL

Who Is ‘Negasi Zuberi’?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.08.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

CNN: Distract Much?
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.10.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.11.23
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 11:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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When the ‘Investigation’ Is a Cover-Up

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

First, the news:

In a dramatic shift, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was being upgraded to a special counsel to investigate the Biden family finances.
The decision means the probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes and his father’s potential dealings with his foreign clients will carry into the 2024 election at the same time the president’s chief rival Donald Trump faces two federal indictments brought by the same department. The tax case is likely to be moved to Washington and Los Angeles, officials said.
Republicans, however, gave the announcement a cold reaction, saying Weiss was the wrong person for the job after offering Hunter Biden a prison-sparing plea deal that fell apart.
“This move by AG Garland is part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup in light of [House Oversight Committee’s] mounting evidence of President Biden’s role in his family’s schemes selling ‘the brand’ for millions of dollars to foreign nationals,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote.
Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan: “David Weiss can’t be trusted, and this is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family’s corruption. Weiss has already signed off on a sweetheart plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it.”
Garland said the appointment of Weiss to an independent prosecutor was in the “public interest,” required by department rules and requested earlier in the week by Weiss.

Ace of Spades points out that part of what’s going on here is that conferring Special Counsel status on Weiss is a way to block House investigators looking into the “sweetheart deal” plea bargain for Hunter Biden that Weiss himself orchestrated (likely under orders from, but certainly with the approval of, Attorney General Merrick Garland). More importantly, however, it’s a way for Garland to put a lid on the whole Biden family corruption saga until after next year’s election.

What Democrats are doing here, of course, is a variation of the Mueller “investigation,” altered to suit their new purposes. Remember what happened in 2017: Trump discovered after becoming president that the FBI had been doing surveillance on his campaign on the false pretext of “Russian collusion” (which pretext, of course, was manufactured by the Clinton campaign using the phony Steele dossier). So, Trump fires FBI Director James Comey and, when this provokes an outcry from Democrats, Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the matter, and appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate. OK, but . . . investigate what?

The real scandal in this was the “Russian collusion” hoax perpetrated against Trump by the Clinton campaign, in which the FBI played a crucial role (“Operation Crossfire Hurricane”), which was why Trump fired Comey. Instead of investigating that, however, Mueller’s investigation instead focused on trying to confirm the existence of “Russian collusion” — which proved impossible because, of course, there was no “collusion” — and also trying to prove that Trump’s firing of Comey somehow constituted “obstruction of justice.” But Trump was not the perpetrator of wrongdoing, he was the victim of wrongdoing, and the purpose of Mueller’s investigation was to conceal this truth.

In other words, the “investigation” was really a cover-up, and months passed while talking heads on MSNBC and CNN kept up their wild-eyed speculation about how “the walls are closing in” on Trump — speculation fed by leaks from Mueller’s team — keeping alive the myth of “Russian collusion” until after the 2018 midterm elections.

Mission accomplished.

Then, in March 2019, with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer now in control of Congress, Mueller releases his report, which disappointed all the cable-news talking heads by failing to confirm “Russian collusion.” The walls had signally failed to “close in,” but the Mueller had achieved his political purpose, namely to promote suspicion of Trump as a Kremlin dupe while concealing the Democratic Party dirty campaign trick behind that suspicion (and the FBI’s own role in that campaign trick).

Fast-forward to the present, and now we have a Special Counsel appointed in the Hunter Biden case who has a similar mission, namely to obstruct the House Oversight Committee’s investigation and deflect attention from the very real scandal by which the Biden family collected $20 million from Hunter’s foreign “clients.” Biden and his administration now have an excuse not to comment on anything related to Hunter because it’s “under investigation” and, the reader may be assured, there will be no leaks from Weiss’s office to the media to give fuel to speculation about the “walls closing in” on Joe Biden.

Anyone with two eyes and a brain can see what’s happening, but the media won’t tell the truth. And they wonder why we don’t trust them.



 

Category: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, MuellerGate, Scandal
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