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In The Mailbox: 09.06.22

Posted on | September 6, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

We call them NPCs for a reason.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: “American Unity” – A Speech By Joe Biden
EBL: White Elephant, Dual, and Kari Lake Rocked This Question
Twitchy: What’s Another Word For Triggered? also, Alex Berenson Has A Hot Tip For Taylor Lorenz About Twitter Bans
Louder With Crowder: New Team DeSantis video explains who the real divisive extremists are slow enough for POTUS to understand,  also, Dave Portnoy: Stop defending Biden, he looked like Hitler up there
Vox Popoli: March Into Darkness, Play Stupid Energy Games, He Should Have Listened, and Walk it Back, Walk it Back!
Stoic Observations: American Class & The Jungle

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Covid, the cult of youth, and the Boomers
American Conservative: In Prague, It Begins
American Greatness: Biden Puts the ‘Total’ in Totalitarianism, also, Everybody Hates Joe Manchin
American Power: Moscow’s Struggle to Sustain Its War in Ukraine
American Thinker: Translating Biden’s ‘Soul of a Nation’ Speech, also, ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty I
Babalu Blog: Rosa Maria Paya: The root of all of Cuba’s problems is the communist military dictatorship, Two Cuban doctors die from dengue, and Chile’s proposed socialist constitution overwhelmingly rejected by voters
BattleSwarm: The Ukraine War Map Problem, also, Movie Review: The Beast
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 4C rocket launches military satellite, NASA to roll SLS back to assembly building, delaying launch by weeks at minimum, and SpaceX launches another 51 Starlink satellites and orbital tug
Cafe Hayek: Regulation: “Phone Bill Too High? Blame the FCC”, A Lesson from Today’s NASA, and An Open Letter to the Directors of the American Economic Association
Chicago Boyz: If We’d Known Back Then What We Know Now
Da Tech Guy: No Innuendo Needed, Libs of TikTok Shows How to Fight Back, Under the Fedora: Reality and Free Will, and An eloquent response to Brandon
Don Surber: Fetterman hires murderers, Trash talk won’t save Democrats, and A raid to get 1,693 newspapers?
First Street Journal: Well, imagine that!, Killadelphia, and Is justice a matter of color in Lexington?
Gates Of Vienna: The Nuremberg Sermon, Let’s Play WW3, Fellow Puppets!, and The Winter War
The Geller Report: WATCH! MASSIVE CROWDS: PACKED HOUSE in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Breaks Out into “USA” To Welcome President Trump, , Ivermectin Reduces COVID Death Risk by 92%, Peer-Reviewed Study Finds, and New Study Shows Wearing Disposable Mask Did More Harm Than Good
Hogewash: Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed, Sonification: The Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and The Surfboard Galaxy
Hollywood In Toto: President Biden Proved Gina Carano’s Point, Sam Morril’s Same Time Tomorrow Might Just Unite the Country, and Here’s How James Caan Stole Honeymoon in Vegas
The Lid: The Munich Olympics Massacre – 50 Years Later
Legal Insurrection: VIDEO of Democrats Denying Election Results In 2000, 2004, and 2016, Drake University’s Diversity Training Session ‘Traumatized’ Some Students, Oberlin College, NPR Shocked Catholic Health Systems Follow Catholic Teachings on Artificial Birth Control, and MSNBC Guest On Trump Supporters: “We are at war with these people”
Nebraska Energy Observer: WTF Too Much Change, also, Labor Day Weekend
Outkick: UCLA Draws Embarrassing Week One Crowd, Sets All-Time Low Rose Bowl Attendance Record, Emmitt Smith’s Son Pulls Off Incredible 87-Yard TD In First Carry of the Season, ESPN’s Jack Harlow Guest Picker Selection Was Disaster We Thought It Would Be, ESPN’s Problematic Commentator Mark Jones Continues To Do And Say Weird Things On TV, and HEART BLOCKAGE! LSU Loses 24-23 On Blocked Extra Point With :00 Left In ‘Ugly’ Debut Of Brian Kelly
Power Line: Biden Keeps a Promise—To Screw American Motorists, “Nice Try, Mr. President”, and It Isn’t Hard to Cheat
Shark Tank: Val Demings Claims Inflation Isn’t One Of Her Top Issues
Shot In The Dark: Fake News
STUMP: Labor Day 2022 Gift: Public Plans Projection Tool Update!
This Ain’t Hell: Hate to run into it: but a clever idea, PETA would rather YOU get the ‘bends’, and VA to begin offering abortions in cases of rape/health risks to veteran
Transterrestrial Musings: What Was Old Is New Again, also, In Biden’s America
Victory Girls: Ruth Marcus: Don’t Call Her Strega Nona, MSNBC: Tiffany Cross Says Republicans Are A Threat To Democracy, and J6 Chair Jamie Raskin Claimed Bush Vs Gore 2003 Election Was Stolen
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation is a Trumpian Abuse of Emergency Powers, also, My Skepticism About Fears of a Constitutional Convention
Watts Up With That: WSJ: Why the Renewable Energy Transition will Fail, From Sri Lanka to Salinas, and The Quantity of Metals Required to Manufacture Just One Generation of Renewable Technology to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Weasel Zippers: BLM Leader Accused of Stealing $10 Million From The Org, Watch: African Immigrant Goes Viral For Video Defending ‘MAGA’, Trump: “Raging Lunatic” John Fetterman Is “Hell-Bent On Springing Hardened Criminals Out Of Jail”, and Biden Refuses To Take Questions As He Leaves On Yet Another Weekend Vacation
The Federalist: In Protecting The KGB, Gorbachev Laid The Foundation For Putin’s Gangster-State, RNC, Other Conservative Groups File Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania For Illegally Altering Ballots, and The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families
Mark Steyn: Rajah You Than Me, God Has Entered the Conversation: Dore Schary and The Next Voice You Hear, and Moon Shot

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Category: Linkagery

One Suspect Dead, His Brother Still at Large in Saskatchewan Stabbings

Posted on | September 6, 2022 | 1 Comment

Damien and Myles Sanderson

When I first heard about this atrocity, my reaction was, “Well, they haven’t said anything about a motive, so I guess it’s not right-wing violence.” And it was just a couple of drug-crazed criminals:

Canadian police on Monday found one of the suspects in a mass stabbing spree dead while the other suspect, his brother, was still on the run and may be injured, officials said.
The brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson are suspected of murdering 10 people and wounding 18 in a stabbing rampage that devastated an indigenous community in Saskatchewan on Sunday, in a country unaccustomed to outbreaks of mass violence.
The attacks were among the deadliest in Canada’s modern history. Police said some of the victims appeared to have been targeted, while others were apparently random.
The victims included a mother of two, a 77-year-old widower and a first responder.
In a manhunt involving hundreds of police officers, Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead in a grassy area on the James Smith Cree Nation, possibly killed by his brother, who had been previously wanted for violent crimes.
The brother still at large, Myles Sanderson, 30, “may have sustained injuries” and could be seeking medical attention, said Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at a news conference. . . .
She also warned that police still considered Myles Sanderson a danger to the public, even if he were injured.
“Myles has a lengthy criminal record involving both persons and property crimes. … We consider him armed and dangerous. Do not approach him,” Blackmore said.
Police in the Saskatchewan city of Saskatoon had been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting his parole officer after serving a sentence for assault, robbery, mischief and uttering threats, CBC News reported.
Ivor Wayne Burns of James Smith Cree Nation said three of the victims — his sister Gloria Lydia Burns, a woman and a 14-year-old boy — died at a single location. . . .
“This tragedy that happened here on our land, it’s all because of drugs and alcohol,” said Burns, adding that the involvement of drugs in the killings was discussed at a community meeting on Monday.
“The drug problem we have here is rampant. It’s gone out of control,” Burns said.
His comments echoed those on Sunday of Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, who connected the killings with drugs.

Obviously, Canada needs common-sense knife-control laws.




 

Category: Canada

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Sydney Sweeney

Posted on | September 5, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You may remember Miss Sweeney from Stacy’s post last week in which he noted her great talents en route to reporting on the kerfluffle regarding her mom’s sixtieth birthday. On looking into her career, it looks like Miss Sweeney is a hard-working actress with quite a few movie & TV credits, and has recently branched out into movie production.
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NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1827, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Chump Effect Friday, plus the fabulous 400th installment of the Saturday Gingermageddon (With Extra Ginger!). 

EBL: MAGA Final Solution, Elvis, Johnny & Roseanne Cash, Me Time, The Rings Of Power, Trainwreck: Woodstock 99, “Candle In The Wind/English Rose”, Nikole Flax, Tamar Aphek, Blondie, and The Rehearsal

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: The Orville’s Anne Winter, Fish Pic Friday – Erika Fishes, Tattoo Thursday, Some Wednesday Wetness, Forget It Jake, It’s Baltimore, Mar-a-Lago Panty Raid, Hold On to That, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

The Symbolism of Philadelphia

Posted on | September 4, 2022 | 6 Comments

Joe Biden gave a speech last week in which he gave lip service to things that Democrats don’t actually believe in, e.g., the Constitution and the rule of law, as a pretext to accuse Republicans — all 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump — of being a “threat to our democracy.”

Biden spoke in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, a gesture by which he attempted to identify himself as defending the founding principles of America when, in fact, he and his party are against those principles and are doing everything in their power to destroy America.

Biden does not deceive us. It is Democrats, not Republicans, who spent the summer of 2020 tearing down statues of our nation’s Founding Fathers. It is Democrats, not Republicans, who have denounced the Electoral College as undemocratic, just as it is Democrats, not Republicans, who endanger Supreme Court justices whose rulings they don’t like. Everything good about America, Democrats seek to destroy, and everything bad in America (e.g., drug dealers, cop killers, perverts in public libraries and junkies defecating on city streets) Democrats defend.

The symbolism of choosing Philadelphia as the site of last week’s speech was perhaps more fitting than Biden realized, because Philadelphia is a city that Democrats have absolutely ruined. The per-capita murder rate in Philadelphia is higher than Chicago’s. Now notorious as “Killadelphia,” the city’s population has declined by about 400,000 people since 1960. In 1980, Philadelphia was still the fourth-largest city in the United States, behind only New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles; now it’s sixth, having fallen behind Houston and Phoenix. It’s no secret who is leaving: Whereas the population of Philadelphia was 57% white in 1980, the city is now just 34% white. Quality of life has plummeted.

Perhaps nothing is more demonstrative of Philadelphia’s decline, and the role Democrats have played in that decline, than the tenure of Larry Krasner as the city’s district attorney. In 2017, left-wing billionaire George Soros wrote a $1.45 million check to Krasner’s campaign. That helped Krasner beat six other candidates in the Democratic primary and, in a city where Hillary Clinton got 83% of the vote in 2016, winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to election. Krasner got 75% of the vote in November 2017, and he was reelected in 2021 with 69% of the vote. So you can’t say that the people of Philadelphia are innocent in what Krasner has done; they voted to destroy their city by turning criminals loose:

Krasner ran as the anti-police candidate, and has made it his official policy to turn dangerous criminals loose on the streets of Philadelphia. One of the beneficiaries of Krasner’s policies, Maurice Hill, had an extensive criminal record — drug charges, aggravated assault, perjury, fleeing and eluding, escape and weapons offenses — before he engaged in a shootout [in August 2019] in North Philadelphia that wounded six cops. 

 

Maurice Hill was certainly not the only dangerous criminal who benefited from Krasner’s turn-’em-loose policy. In one of the most infamous cases, Krasner turned loose a career criminal, Hassan Elliott, who then committed a murder and, when a SWAT team came to arrest him, shot to death a veteran policeman in March 2019. Joe Biden says Republican voters are a threat to democracy, but what about Hassan Elliott?

During his speech last week, Joe Biden didn’t say a word about the perpetrators of criminal violence in “Killadelphia,” nor did he mention how Democrats like Larry Krasner have enabled this bloodshed.

According to the Philadelphia Police Department, there have been 364 homicides in the city so far this year, as of Saturday, which is on pace to break the record 562 homicides the city recorded in 2021.

You didn’t hear a word about this in Joe Biden’s speech last week at Independence Hall for the simple reason that Joe Biden doesn’t care. All he cares about is electing more Democrats, and if the result of electing more Democrats is that hundreds of people get murdered because Democrats are turning loose dangerous criminals, so what?

Labor Day weekend shootings:
12 shot, 5 killed as gun violence
continues across Philadelphia

It’s been less than three days since Joe’s speech, and in that short span, five more corpses have been added to the pile in “Killadelphia.” This is a direct consequence of the policies of the Democratic Party, but according to Joe Biden, it is Republicans who are a “clear and present danger.”

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Crime, Joe Biden, Pennsylvania

Memphis Police Charge Suspect With Kidnapping Billionaire Heiress

Posted on | September 4, 2022 | 2 Comments

In 2001, when Cleotha “Pookie” Abston was just a teenager, he already had “a long juvenile record of theft and aggravated assault” before he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a man at gunpoint. Now, he’s been charged in what seems to be an even more serious crime:

A 38-year-old man who spent much of his life in prison has been charged with kidnapping teacher Eliza Fletcher, who has still not been found, Memphis Police announced Sunday morning.
The news of Cleotha “Pookie” Abston’s arrest comes a day after investigators revealed they had located a “vehicle of interest” in the abduction of Fletcher, 34, a married mom of two boys whose grandfather was a wealthy philanthropist.
Fletcher was out jogging near the University of Memphis on Friday morning when assailants in an SUV bundled her into the vehicle and drove off.
Abston, 38, was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. He is being held at the Shelby County Jail. . . .
Police said they arrested a second person, apparently a relative of Abston, but do not believe he is connected to Fletcher’s abduction. Instead, Mario Abston, 36, was hit with gun and drug charges.
“Eliza Fletcher has not been located at this time. MPD Investigators and officers, along with our local and federal partners, continue searching for Mrs. Fletcher,” Memphis cops said.
Fletcher graduated from the Hutchinson School in Memphis in 2006 and got a teaching degree from Belmont University. She has been married for eight years.
Her family has offered a $50,000 reward for her safe return. Fletcher’s grandfather ran Orgill, the hardware supply giant started by his family that is now worth over $3.2 billion.

Information from the police affidavit is ominous:

When officers stopped Cleotha Abston, he attempted to flee but was taken into custody.
Investigators then interviewed a person who stated that after the abduction at approximately 7:50 a.m., they saw Cleotha Abston at the home of Mario Abston, in the 1700 block of S. Orleans Street, a report said. . . .
The person stated they saw the suspect cleaning the interior of the GMC Terrain with floor cleaner and stated that he was behaving oddly, an affidavit stated.
The same information was later given by Mario Abston, the suspects brother, who stated that he too saw the suspect cleaning the interior of the car with floor cleaner, records show.
Both the witness and the brother saw the suspect washing his clothes in the sink of the house.
Mario Abston said that it appeared that the suspect was acting very strange.
Cleotha Abston declined to provide investigators with the location of the victim, police said.
The other man who was arrested, Mario Abston, 36, was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Fentanyl, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Heroin, and Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony, police said.
Police said he is currently not believed to be connected to Fletcher’s abduction.

So it appears that the suspect’s brother Mario is also a convicted felon, but the really scary thing is the report that “Pookie” was apparently trying to conceal evidence related to the crime — blood?

Obviously, the police believe they have enough evidence to convict Cleotha Abston of kidnapping Fletcher, and if she turns up dead — which now seems the likely outcome — there is little doubt they’ll be able to convict Abston of her murder. It will be a death penalty case.




 

Category: Crime, Tennessee

FMJRA 2.0: Blessed Silence

Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Blessed Silence

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No SOTD today. Just settling for the ambient noise in the apartment today.

This is one of those weeks that makes me think I ought to quit Pete’s continual draft league and just stick with wargames. Senators went 2-4 this week against the Yankees and Red Sox, with both wins being in extra innings, two of the losses being hideous blowouts, and the other two being painfully close losses. We’re halfway through the season, and I am not optimistic about the rest of it – the disparity in talent between my 25-56 Senators and the division-leading teams is not something that’s going to be improved much by next season’s draft, unless we resort to an auction or Pete assigns dollar values to the players and imposes a salary cap. Well, I have the rest of the season to think about it.
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Still can’t believe Brabender pitched a scoreless six innings – and didn’t get the win.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Raquel Welch
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In The Mailbox: 08.31.22
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Affidavit, Laugh-idavit
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FMJRA 2.0: Countdown To Looking Glass
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What Time Is It?
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Have We Reached Peak ‘Woke’ Yet?
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NFL Pre-Season Injury Report
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Another Loser With a ‘Manifesto’
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In The Mailbox: 08.29.22
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Our Divider-in-Chief Has Done It Again
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‘Deep State’ Cracking Up? Top FBI Agent Resigns Amid Political Bias Charges 
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In The Mailbox: 08.30.22
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In The Mailbox: 09.01.22
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Joe Biden’s Blood-Red War Speech
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‘A Coven of Sexual Predators’
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.22
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Grifters Gonna Grift: Lawsuit Accuses BLM Leader of Swindling $10 Million

Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Grifters Gonna Grift: Lawsuit Accuses BLM Leader of Swindling $10 Million

BLM was always a criminal enterprise:

The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.
Shalomyah Bowers was called in the court filing as a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper” who siphoned contributions to the nonprofit activist group to use as a “personal piggy bank,” according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
Bowers’ actions led the foundation into investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorneys general, “blazing a path of irreparable harm to BLM in less than eighteen months,” the suit claims. “While BLM leaders and movement workers were on the street risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his cushy offices devising a scheme of fraud and misrepresentation to break the implied-in-fact contract between donors and BLM.”

(Oh, the courageous rioters, “risking their lives”!)

The suit, filed by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, was light on details of the alleged theft of funds, but delved into the fissures within the network of Black Lives Matter groups, charting changes in leadership and power that left Bowers with tight control of the organization.
Bowers and his group denied all claims of financial misconduct and chastised those suing him for “falling victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system” in taking legal action against him.
“They would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors said in a joint statement.
Bowers is one of three members of the board.

(If a black man swindles $10 million, it’s “white supremacy” to take him to court, because “social justice,” y’all!)

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is an administrative organization that raises funds to distribute to Black Lives Matter Grassroots, the umbrella organization for local chapters of the group.
Bowers was hired by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors in 2020 to help raise and distribute money to groups within the foundation.
Attorney Walter Mosley, representing the plaintiffs in the case, alleges that Bowers instead engaged in self-dealing, giving grants to his own consultant firm and charging exorbitant fees reaching eight figures.
“The lawsuit demands that they return the people’s funds and stop impersonating Black Lives Matter,” Mosley said in a statement.
The lawsuit was announced at a news conference Thursday hosted by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who said that Bowers shut her and other leaders out of the BLM social media accounts in March by changing the passwords. . . .

(Melina Abdullah was born Melina Rachel Reimann. She is half-white. Her grandfather was a Marxist from Germany. Just sayin’ . . .)

Black Lives Matter has come under fiscal scrutiny since 2020, when the group received $90 million in donations amid protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
The organization filed its first public IRS 990 tax form in 2022 and was criticized by some for buying a $6-million Studio City compound.

You have to admire the vagueness of that phrase “criticized by some,” couched in the passive voice. And the “compound” BLM bought in Studio City might more properly be called a mansion, but the Objective Journalists at the L.A. Times are trying to avoid the plain truth, i.e., when these alleged victims of oppression hit that $90 million jackpot, they went on a spending binge that would make a Saudi prince blush.

There were three kinds of people involved in BLM:

1. Cynical hustlers;
2. Dangerous criminals;
and
3. Gullible fools.

The hustlers got rich, the criminals engaged in a spree of vandalism, arson and looting that wreaked billions of dollars in damage, and the gullible fools sent money to BLM to encourage these riots. Excuse me for not sympathizing with the plaintiffs suing Shalomyah Bowers, but where is the evidence that they are better people than he is? Does anyone really think that Melina Abdullah would have been more scrupulous in her financial dealings if she had been in charge of that $90 million?

By the way, the alleged $10 million ripoff by Bowers is just the tip of the massive corrupt iceberg at BLM:

Patrisse Cullors, the former executive director and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, paid a company owned by Damon Turner $969,459 for “live production, design and media,” according to the group’s latest filings with the IRS. Turner’s for-profit company, which sells $145 sweatshirts on its website and solicits donations for “the movement,” received the second-highest payout the group made in fiscal year 2020, which covers July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
A rapper and artist, Turner is the father of Cullors’ young son, and runs a Los Angeles-based entertainment and clothing company called Trap Heals LLC. Turner has been on the receiving end of Cullors’ largesse in the past. In 2019, his company took in $63,500 from Reform LA Jails, a state political action committee controlled by Cullors, to work for criminal justice reform. . . .
The organization also doled out $840,993 to Cullors Protection LLC, a company owned by Patrisse Cullors’ eldest brother, Paul, and set up in July 2020, according to California state records. The cash was doled out for “professional security services,” according to the filings. The Post was unable to establish how much security experience, if any, Paul had before setting up his company. Paul is listed as head of security for Cullors’ personal property and BLMGNF’s $6 million LA headquarters, according to reports.

So, between her baby daddy and her brother, Cullors handed out at least $1.8 million to her family members, and who knows what other corrupt dealings would be unearthed by a thorough investigation of BLM’s finances? But the IRS and the Justice Department are run by Democrats, who certainly are not going to “utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy” to hold these grifters accountable.

The whole thing was a scam from the very beginning.

UPDATE: Oh, I missed this delicious irony:

The lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Dr. Melina Abdullah, accused Joe Biden of capitalizing of the movement’s efforts to defund law enforcement.
Abdullah said Biden “capitalized on our efforts to defund the police, and then tried to condemn the words at the same time,” in an Instagram video from [November 2020]. . . .
“We want to be very clear that as we happily usher out the Trump regime, we will not accept liberal white supremacy in the White House in the form of Joe Biden,” Abdullah said.

Yeah, good luck with your lawsuit, ma’am.




 

Category: Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 09.02.22

Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.02.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Probably going to take Monday off, as one does on Federal holidays. We’ll see.
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The best of the memes from last night’s speech. Fight me.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Feminist Hollywood & Unlikable Female Characters
EBL: Ahoy, Allahpundit! Fascist Joe Biden, also, The Rings of Power
Twitchy: “You Should Be Embarrassed”, Yale TDS Victim Sues To Get Job Back, Loses, and Best Of Memes From Last Night
Louder With Crowder: ‘He pretended to be a man for 30 years’, ‘I Am Cornholio’, and Kari Lake Wrecks Reporter Who Claims She’s “Dividing The Country”
Vox Popoli: Five-Month Peak, Thank You For Your Service, and It’s a Mystery
According To Hoyt: Victory!, Radio Free Colorado (In Exile), and The Problems of Bureaucracy
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E8: Beta Readers and Writer Groups, also, Word Counts
Gab News: Gab Community Update For September [Has interesting traffic numbers.]

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s all fake and gay, all of it
American Conservative: Biden, Forerunner Of Soft Totalitarianism, also, German Foreign Minister: ‘Let My People Freeze’
American Greatness: Biden Walks Back Attack on MAGA Republicans, also, Senator Chuck Grassley Warns DOJ Against Interfering with FBI Whistleblowers
American Power: Allahpundit Out at ‘Hot Air’
American Thinker: America: In the Midst of a Communist Color Revolution, Biden’s Semi-Fascist America, and Ten Ways to Change a Liberal’s Mind
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Chump Effect Friday
Babalu Blog:  An absolutely perfect Fidel Castro analogy to Biden’s Orwellian hate-filled prime-time speech, Cuban dictatorship’s refusal to relinquish power will lead to its violent downfall, and ‘Assassination attempt’ on rabid Argentinian supporter of Cuban dictatorship fails due to jammed weapon
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for September 2
Behind The Black: NASA is paying Boeing twice as much as SpaceX for its manned flights, SLS countdown resumes, and Pushback: Maine parent wins lawsuit against school board for attempting to ban him
Cafe Hayek: Tech Central Station: “Dobbs’s Disciples (Why America is Growing Richer, Not Poorer, From Free Trade)”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Imperial Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945…Plus 77 Years
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Speech: It’s not Persuasion, it’s Justification
Don Surber: Libs boycott CNN. Ratings may rise, also, Mr. Ed is smarter than Colbert
First Street Journal: Killington, also, (Allegedly) murdering a 97-year-old man because you are frustrated is the epitome of stupidity
Gates Of Vienna: Greenhouse Gas Pollution by Wind Turbines, Rent-a-Sheeple for a Phone, The Burning of the Bills, and Electric Shock
The Geller Report: Despotic Joe Biden Rages, also, Experts blame green energy policies for Europe’s full-scale energy crisis: ‘A warning to the US’
Hogewash: This Guy Called Me a Half-Fascist, The First-Ever Direct Image of an Exoplanet, How Did the Greens Heat Their Houses Before Wood Stoves?, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: My Son Hunter Shows Flashes of What Hollywood Missed, In the Company of Men Still Shocks, but That’s Not the Whole Story, and Glorious Gets Lost at the Worst Possible Time
The Lid: 5 Reasons Joe’s Psycho Rant Was GOOD News For A November Red Wave
Legal Insurrection: Why is the Gibson Family Still Waiting to be Paid by Oberlin?, Study Finds Only 9% of Law Professors Identify as Conservative, The ‘Antiracist’ Movement Has Roots in Soviet Communism, and Biden Walks Back “MAGA Republicans Are a Threat” Claim, Beclowning Sycophantic Media And Never-Trumpers
Nebraska Energy Observer: Truth to Power
Outkick: Pittsburgh Coach Rips ESPN On Live TV After Beating West Virginia, Hooters Under Fire For Sponsoring Kids Soccer Team, Tennessee Football Looks Hypocritical After Offensive Lineman Delivers Oscar-Worthy Flop, and Aaron Rodgers Offers Wise Advice On How To Heal America
Power Line: Triumph of the shill, The Great Dictator: The Common Man’s View, and Biden’s Repulsive Speech
Protein Wisdom: When Turnips Attack
Shark Tank: Smith vs. Plasencia – HD37 Starts To Heat Up
Shot In The Dark: Semi, also, Hamilton
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Dump Nixon?
This Ain’t Hell: Army JAGOff claims trying to give stuff to the Rooskies, Valor Friday, and Darkest Before the Dawn
Transterrestrial Musings: Frank Drake
Victory Girls: Biden Speech Goes For Full Dystopian Optics, also, Trump Floats Pardoning J6 Rioters; Left Explodes
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Pleading Needs More Hemingway, Less Faulkner”
Watts Up With That: CNBC: Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown, also, California to Cover Canals With Toxic Solar Panels
Weasel Zippers: WH Implies Pro-Life Americans Are “Semi-Fascists” According To Biden Administration, Education Sec. Cardona Thanks Same Union Bosses Who Kept Schools Closed, Forced Masks On 3-Year-Olds, and European Union: Civil Unrest And Riots This Winter Over Oil And Food Prices
The Federalist: Michiganders Blast Secretary Of State Who Claims Her Hands Are Clean In 2020 Election-Funding Scheme, Biden’s Declaration Of War On Half The Country Is A Cynical Election Ploy, As America Self-Destructs With Green Energy, China Preps For War With Coal, and Let’s Talk About Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Looming Gas Pains 
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday September 2nd, also, Dropping the Pretense

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