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In The Mailbox: 08.31.22

Posted on | August 31, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.31.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1826
EBL: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP, also, Has Christopher Wray Lost Control Of The FBI?
Twitchy: Wide Shot Of Biden’s Pa. Crowd Explains Why WH Didn’t Want Wide Shots Of The Crowd, Politifact Rates WH Spin On GOP PPP Loans True, and Wiener Pulls Out
Louder With Crowder: Californians told not to charge their electric vehicles days after state announced a ban on gas-powered cars, also, ‘We’ve been voting Dem for 59 years’: Charles Barkley goes off on Democrats failing the black community
Vox Popoli: The Informing Principle, TikTok On the Clock, The Big Ticket, and Progress

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can You Heat Europe With Von Der Leyen’s Hot Air?
American Greatness: House Republicans Making Plans to Impeach Biden, also, New York City Struggles to Find Housing for over 6,000 Illegals Bused in from Texas
American Power: Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores
American Thinker: Reiner, Klobuchar and the Big Lie of January 6
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Long Term Memory News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans clash with police violently preventing them from boarding rafts to escape the island, Political prisoners from Cuba’s July 11 protests punished for rejecting communist reeducation, and Reports from Cuba: Many Cubans with dengue fever hide at home to avoid bad time at a hospital
BattleSwarm: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 46 Starlink satellites into orbit, Ursa Major makes rocket engine deal with Air Force, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: And Again, Then A Miracle Occurs, also, Internalized Costs Are Not Evidence of Market Failure
CDR Salamander: A Stain Unfaded by Time: a Year After the Fall of Kabul
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora: Missing Those Pillows, Blackout Futures, Hot Air Countdown, Formerly Common Knowledge and Betting vs Cutting
Don Surber: WaPo praises USSR’s Biden, Barr defends raid on Mar-a-Lago. Lefties still want his hide, and Judge Nap makes another Trump indictment prediction
First Street Journal: Now the Biden Administration wants people to take a completely untested-in-humans vaccine!
Gates Of Vienna: Affirmative-Action Jihad in Lugano, Cultural Appropriators Must Be Cancelled!, Imam on the Run, and Enough of the Nuisance!
The Geller Report: DeSantis calls for IRS audits on lawmakers who voted for Inflation Act
Hogewash: No, Joe, They Won’t Need F-15s, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Tonight’s Sky: September, 2022
Hollywood In Toto: Schwarzenegger’s Running Man Delivered More than ’80s-Era Cheese, also, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul Delivers Toothless Megachurch Satire
The Lid: Biden Lies About AR-15s, Claims Bullets Travel 5x Times Faster Than Any Other Round
Legal Insurrection: Fetterman Uses His May Stroke to Justify Not Debating, Biden Chooses Lois Lerner Associate to Oversee Massive Expansion of the IRS, and VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin Slams California Law Banning New Gas-Powered Cars
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: No Apologies
Outkick: Myles Garrett Responds To Baker Mayfield Vowing To F*** Up The Browns, Tennis Influencer Rachel Stuhlmann Takes Over At U.S. Open, Tennis Star Sara Bejlek, 16, Addresses Her Father & Coach Grabbing Her Butt At U.S. Open, and College Football Playoff Could Expand To 12 Teams By Friday
Power Line: The West’s Energy Disaster Worsens, Semi-moronic, and A Footnote on Reagan & Gorbachev
Shark Tank: Progressive Karen Green To Face Combat Veteran Cory Mills In November
Shot In The Dark: “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarians, Part 1, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Urban Progressive Privilege: Defunding For Ye, But Not For Me
The Political Hat: Synthetic Embryos Mean One Thing: Mass Produced Genetically Engineered Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Navy looking for a few good … thumbs, WP Opinion: Student Loan Forgiveness = Stolen Valor, Mikhail Gorbachev passes away at 91, and Hot!! USS Texas is afloat and sailing to Galveston NOW!! YOU CAN WATCH!
Transterrestrial Musings: Mikhail Gorbachev
Victory Girls: Problems And Questions About That Classified Documents Photo, also, Fetterman Admits He Can’t Handle A Debate
Volokh Conspiracy: President Biden’s Apparently Incorrect Claim That AR-15 Bullets Travel 5 Times Faster Than Others
Watts Up With That: Arctic Ice at Decade-High Level: Can Doomsayers Explain?
Weasel Zippers: California Tells Residents Not To Charge Electric Vehicles Because Of Blackouts A Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale Of Gas Cars, Senior Moment: Biden Totally Screws Up Who Is Running For What In Pennsylvania, Joe Rogan Says Jen Psaki Was A Propagandist While Comparing McEnany To Michael Jordan, and WH Says Biden’s Economy Is In “Transition”
The Federalist: The Real Hero Of The Soviet Fall Wasn’t Gorbachev, Democrat Candidates In Key Battleground States Are Ducking Debates With Their GOP Opponents, It’s Too Late For Corrupt Media To Decide Political Violence Is Bad, and Wall Street Bigwigs Are Left-Wing Activists Using Your Money To Push Their Politics
Mark Steyn: Into The Sunset, also, When Nothing Works

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In The Mailbox: 08.30.22

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Another Hopperesque piece from u/itskaiwan

 

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Freezing In The Dark
EBL: FBI Agent Timothy Thibault Out, Nikole Flax to lead IRS , and Big Win For Gibson’s Bakery 
Twitchy: DNC Advisor Tells MSNBC GOP Should Be Treated Like Domestic Terrorist Cell
Louder With Crowder: Business community says if progressive city won’t do anything about crime, they’ll stop paying taxes, also, Chris Rock rejects offer to host Oscars again with joke
Vox Popoli: Quantum Edit List, Qui Tam vs Cui Bono, Post-EU Europe, and The Last of the Summer Offensive

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Trivium classical learning system
American Conservative: Neronian Ruling Class Fiddles While West Burns
American Greatness: One Giant Problem with the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid, Republican Senators Demand Facebook Hand Over FBI  Communications FBI About Hunter Biden Laptop Story, and What Is to Be Done?
American Power:  The Unmaking of American History by the Woke Mob, also, Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles
American Thinker:  Unelected Bureaucrats Unilaterally Impose the Green New Deal, also, Expect More Democrat Hail Marys
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Relative Happiness News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security raids home of adolescent girl beaten by police, Cuban hospitals overwhelmed by dengue epidemic and power blackouts, and As the Cuban dictatorship teeters on the verge of collapse, Biden cuts funding to Radio Martí and VOA
BattleSwarm: Kherson Counteroffensive Finally Begins, also, Kherson Counteroffensive: Day Two
Behind The Black: Astra gets contract to provide engines to OneWeb satellites, The Ukrainian War: After Six Months, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Nor Does the Free Market Read Shakespeare
CDR Salamander: Nice Ammo Dump You Have There, Shame if–
Chicago Boyz: Who Knows?
Da Tech Guy: Report from Louisiana: On this Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Opportunities for the GOP in MA and Car Dealers in the Northeast States, and A voyage into history
Don Surber: WSJ takes on the FBI, NYT gleefully reports WaPo woes, and NBC is about to chuck Todd
First Street Journal: If the gun laws are the problem, why aren’t the homicide rates for Philly and the rest of the Commonwealth fairly similar?, also, The hypocrisy of elected Democrats
Gates Of Vienna: Vehicular Jihad in Brussels, Mass Immigration? Austria Says “Forget It!”, Beware of Criminal Migrants!, and The Winters of Our Discontent
The Geller Report: Elon Musk: We Need Oil and Gas “Because Otherwise Civilization Will Crumble”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Aiming DART
Hollywood In Toto: Rob Schneider on Saturday Night Live – ‘It’s Over’, Entourage Creator Flees Crime-Infested L.A., and Why Can’t Joe Rogan Make Up His Mind?
The Lid: Thirteen States Set To Tax Amount of Canceled Student Loan Debt
Legal Insurrection: Jean-Pierre Tells Fox’s Doocy No One Just Walks Across the Border, Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supremes Refuse To Hear Oberlin College Appeal, and ‘Severely Immunocompromised’: Media Carefully Words Report of Person Dying With Monkeypox in Texas
Michelle Malkin: Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here’s a fun fact to start your Monday, also, It’s a concert
Outkick: Parents Of Punter Matt Araiza Say ‘War Waged On Our Son’, ‘Tried And Convicted In The Media’, ‘F*** Scott Frost’: Enraged Nebraska Fans Rip The State Of The Program, Jon Gruden Gives Emotional Response To Raiders Firing And The Aftermath, and Keith Olbermann Thinks He Lives Rent-Free In Aaron Rodgers’ Head
Power Line: Ohio Supremes to Oberlin College: Pay Up, also, Timothy Thibault exits FBI
Shark Tank: First Responder Groups Endorse AG Ashley Moody In Droves
Shot In The Dark: Somewhere In Hollywood Tomorrow Morning, Buried, and Karen’s House
STUMP: Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
The Political Hat: The War On Gas Automobiles Is Upon Us
This Ain’t Hell: Armed ANTIFA personnel guard ‘kid friendly’ drag show, Iranians try feeling up Navy drone, Hunter Biden Laptop Denier to be appointed to Intelligence Advisory Board, and Iran Deal II Disaster
Transterrestrial Musings:  Hangar Queen, also, The Kherson Counteroffensive
Victory Girls: Meat Eating Man Owns Screaming Vegans
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects Suit by Volunteer Yale Psych Professor Fired for Public Diagnosis of Trump and Alan Dershowitz
Watts Up With That: Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum
Weasel Zippers: Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate John Fetterman: “I Am Horrified” By Voter ID Requirements, California Now A Sanctuary State For Trans Kids, WH Denies Unvaccinated Illegal Immigrants Are Walking Into Our Country, and Florida GOP Office Vandalized After Biden Refers To Republicans As Fascists
The Federalist: Google Nukes Truth Social From App Store, Yes, Mitch McConnell Would Rather Lose The Senate Than His Leadership Status, If Young People Are Mature Enough For Trans Surgeries, They’re Mature Enough To Pay Back Their Student Loans, and Who Are You Calling A Fascist, Mr. President?
Mark Steyn: Candle in the Wind, Performance Art with No Performers, and The Bill Comes Due

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‘Deep State’ Cracking Up? Top FBI Agent Resigns Amid Political Bias Charges

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Deep State’ Cracking Up? Top FBI Agent Resigns Amid Political Bias Charges

“Don’t f**k with Charles Grassley” is always good advice:

A top FBI agent at the Washington field office reportedly resigned from his post last week after facing intense scrutiny over allegations he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations into his laptop and business dealings.
Timothy Thibault, an FBI assistant special agent in charge, was allegedly forced out after he was accused of political bias in his handling of probes involving President Biden’s son, sources told the Washington Times on Monday.
The agent was escorted out of the field office by at least two “headquarters-looking types” last Friday, the sources said.
Thibault and the FBI didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on Monday.
Thibault, a 25-year-veteran, had already been on leave for a month after the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), started raising concerns about whistleblower claims that the FBI had obstructed its own investigations into the first son.
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray in July, Grassley said Thibault and FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten were allegedly involved in “a scheme” to “undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”
Thibault also allegedly tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality until at least one month before the November 2020 election, according to Grassley.
“Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines … [and] subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” Grassley wrote.
Meanwhile, Republican senators have also publicly scrutinized Thibault’s alleged anti-Trump social media activity ahead of the 2020 election, including a retweet of a Lincoln Project message that called Donald Trump a “psychologically broken, embittered and deeply unhappy man.”
He also allegedly tweeted that he wanted to “give Kentucky to the Russian Federation.”
Wray admitted under grilling from GOP senators earlier this month that allegations of political bias at the hands of FBI agents, including Thibault, were “deeply troubling.”

Exactly when did it become “deeply troubling,” Mr. Wray? Was it shortly after Republican senators started asking questions about it in public hearings? Because my hunch is, you were OK with it, as long as you were getting away with it, but after Grassley found out about it, then it became “deeply troubling.” And let’s not forget this story from Paul Sperry: “FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation.” Thibault worked hand-in-hand with the same operatives involved in all this anti-Trump activity at the FBI, and the fact that Wray is throwing him under the bus now suggests maybe they don’t trust him to keep their dirty secrets hush-hush. So I’m going to get ahead of the news cycle here and declare: Timothy Thibault did not commit suicide.




 

Category: Corruption, Scandal

Our Divider-in-Chief Has Done It Again

Posted on | August 30, 2022 | 1 Comment

I was semi-fascist before semi-fascism was cool:

President Joe Biden called on Democrats Thursday “to vote to literally save democracy once again” — and compared Republican ideology to “semi-fascism” — as he led a kickoff rally and a fundraiser in Maryland 75 days out from the midterm elections.
Addressing an overflow crowd of thousands at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Biden said: “Your right to choose is on the ballot this year. The Social Security you paid for from the time you had a job is on the ballot. The safety of your kids from gun violence is on the ballot, and it’s not hyperbole, the very survival of our planet is on the ballot.”

(“Vote Democrat or die!”)

“You have to choose,” Biden added. “Will we be a country that moves forward or a country that moves backward?” . . .

(“Backward” to the time of lower gas prices, maybe?)

Ahead of the rally, Biden raised about $1 million at an event with about 100 donors for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund in the backyard of a lavish Bethesda home. . . .

(Democrat “grassroots” = Bethesda millionaires.)

Biden on Thursday expanded on his effort to paint Republicans as the “ultra-MAGA” party — a reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — opposing his agenda and embracing conservative ideological proposals as well as Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told donors at the fundraiser. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
“I respect conservative Republicans,” Biden said later. “I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”

The feeling is mutual, I’m sure. The thing I enjoy most about the Biden presidency is the great job he’s done “uniting our country.”




 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 08.29.22

Posted on | August 29, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.29.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Did a little work on Wombat’s Bookshelf yesterday and brought it up to date through the end of 2021, so if you missed any of the review posts last year or just need a quick guide to some worthwhile SF and history books, there you are.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Meanwhile, in Reno…(from the r/Reno subreddit)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Wisconsin Media Seems Confused About Self-Defense
Director Blue: SpyGate The Graphic Novel Chapter 9 – When Lisa Met Pete
EBL: Will Trump Get A Special Master?, also, When The Shiite Hits The Fan
Twitchy: Taylor Lorenz Has The Vapors Over Libs Of TikTok Again, also, Allow Democrat John Fetterman To Explain Why He Opposes Voter ID
Louder With Crowder: Mike Tyson shares why he turned from an ‘all-out liberal’ to a conservative, also, Jason Aldean’s wife makes joke about gender and being a tomboy
Vox Popoli: Very Correct Indeed, The Devil’s Pride, The Death of Davos Man, and Definitely Fake, Probably Gay
Stoic Observations: Bull, Boss, & Big Black

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sanctions are the Briar Patch of our times, also, I get Suspicious when a Famous Jew converts to Catholicism – UPDATED
American Conservative: Tired Of The Trump Drama, also, American Babylon & The Kolakovic Moment
American Greatness: The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump, Lawyer: January 6 Clients Are Being Tortured, and Lindsey Graham Says There Will be Riots if Trump is Prosecuted
American Power: Washington State Patriotism, The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit: Is That All There Is?, and Student Loan Plan Will Feed Inflation, Hurt Dems Politically
American Thinker: The Raid on Mar-A-Lago: A Desperate Act by the Deep State, Conventional Wisdom is an Oxymoron, and The FBI: A Campaign Arm of the Democrat Party
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Charlie Crist picks running-mate who tweeted how Cubans ‘mourn’ the death of dictator Fidel Castro, Reports from Cuba: After milk and beef, bread disappears from the Cuban table, Farts and alloys: Florida Democrat for U.S. Senate Val Demings tries to campaign in Spanish, fails miserably, and Blockade Schmockade: All-purpose excuse for failure repeated ad nauseam for dupes in Cuba and abroad
BattleSwarm: The Crazy Smart Felon Who Lived In A Toys “R” Us, also, San Francisco Shop Owners Reach Their Breaking Point
Behind The Black: Federal court rejects lawsuit by Dish/Viasat against Starlink, SLS launch scrubbed, Today’s blacklisted American, and Quick space links
Cafe Hayek: Meaningful Jobs are Productive Jobs – Not Protected Jobs, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Scale of state”, and To Advocate Industrial Policy Is to Pose As a Fortuneteller
CDR Salamander: The Use and Misuse of our Military Attachés , also, The Eeyore Leadership Model for Our Navy
Da Tech Guy: MORE Navy manpower woes!!, Good News and Bad News for kids in DC, and As Van Morrison turns 77, here are his ten best albums
Don Surber: Now they admit we were right, Bill Maher’s laptop problem, and Lesbians served their purpose. Men take over LGBT
First Street Journal: If “Black Lives Matter,” why do black killers of white victims get more severe sentences than black killers of black victims even in very liberal cities?
Gates Of Vienna: Criminal Lunacy All Across the West, Stop Waiting For WW3, We’re From the Climate Police, and We’re Here to Help You, and Masks for Thee, But Not for Me
The Geller Report: 1,100 Scientists and Professionals Declare: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Don’t Panic!, and On the Bus? Or Under It?
Hollywood In Toto: Me Time Marks New Low for Modern Comedy, Tim Pool’s Only Ever Wanted Rockets Up iTunes Music Chart, and Rob Schneider: ‘Western Civilization Is Under Attack’
The Lid: Michigan Democrats Fought to Keep 26,000 Dead People ON Voting Rolls, Judge Said No Way
Legal Insurrection: Utah Sues Biden Over His Restoration of Two National Monuments, Politico Reveals IRS Leaks In Their Big “Scoop” That Republican Nikki Haley Is Getting Donations From Republicans, Operation Demoralize Is Back, and Critical Race Theory, Anti-Racist Math Pollutes Kentucky School District Teacher Training Materials
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, Thoughts
Outkick: Rod Carew Confronted Rob Manfred on the State of Baseball, Northwestern’s Offensive Line Coach Trolls Nebraska In Brutal Fashion, Aaron Rodgers Tells Joe Rogan The NFL Sent In ‘Stooge’ To Enforce COVID Vaccine Policy, and Commanders RB Brian Robinson Shot ‘Multiple Times’ As Target Of Attempted Robbery
Power Line: King of the Wild Frontier, Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill . . . Wait, What?, and Facing the Truth About Lockdowns
Shark Tank: Local Florida GOP Headquarters Vandalized By Anarchists, also, Rubio Calls Demings “Do-Nothing Congresswoman”
Shot In The Dark: Data Point, Fermented, and The Media’s Loving Embrace
STUMP: More on the Mystery Death Spike of CT and NC (that is totally bogus)
The Political Hat: Woke Indoctrination Of Children: Private Organizations; Public Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Media and “vets”, Survivor of communism warns Americans about socialism, Missing M240. Ooops., and Putin orders over 100K increase in military headcount
Transterrestrial Musings: The Space Industrial Base, Android Weirdness, and How The Middle Class Views Their Current Rulers
Victory Girls: Biden’s Unity Message: Republicans Are Semi-Fascists, Suddenly Elizabeth Warren Is Worried About Recession, and CO Dem Says U.S. Will Lose Right To Vote If Republicans Win
Volokh Conspiracy: The “Good Government Trilemma”: Why We Can’t Have Democracy, Accountability, and Big Government all at Once, also, “It’s Illegal for People Under 21 to Buy Canisters of Whipped Cream in NY”
Watts Up With That: The Science of Snowfall and Climate Snowjobs, also, The British Energy Horror Story
Weasel Zippers: Zuckerberg Says FBI Pressured Facebook To Censor Before 2020 Election, DNC Chair Defends Biden’s “Semi-Fascist” Smear As Example Of Biden Being “Consistent”, and Joe Rogan: “Vote Republican”
The Federalist: Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Rewards Loyal Democrats And Punishes Everyone Else, Shia LaBeouf’s Conversion Is The Story Of A Real Encounter With God, Arizona Supreme Court Smacks Down Democrats’ Election Takeover Ploy, and At Democrats’ Bidding, Google And Yelp Censor Searches For Life-Saving Pregnancy Centers
Mark Steyn: Up the Greek, Best Western: Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in The Professionals, and The Transfiguration of Diana

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Another Loser With a ‘Manifesto’

Posted on | August 29, 2022 | 1 Comment

Say hello to Ethan Miller, 20, of Bend, Oregon, and while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because he died of a self-inflicted gunshot after shooting up a Safeway supermarket Sunday. He shot four people, two of whom died, after posting a 56-page “manifesto.” Miller ranted about “the government, COVID lockdowns, technology, and women, [and] said in the rambling, oddly punctuated screed that he had an insatiable compulsion to kill”:

“I can’t wait to just send a Bullet into someone’s Brain,” Miller wrote in the first entry, on July 29. “This is going to be the Bloodiest and Most Gruesome Massacre in the History of Massacres! I want Blood, Guts, Brain Matter, and Pieces of Skull & Flesh to Paint the Walls and Floors. Then I wanna End my Life Here in the Most Violent Way Possible. By Eating the Barrel of My Shotgun then Blowing my Head Off & Evacuating my Brain with Buckshot.”

Two dead and two wounded? Definitely not “the Bloodiest and Most Gruesome Massacre in the History of Massacres,” and I’m sure we’ll get an explanation from police for why Miller’s massacre plan was even worse than his prose style. It appears he originally planned to attack a local high school on Sept. 8, but became impatient and attacked the Safeway instead. He was an unpopular creep in high school:

Akela Haverlandt, 21, lived a few houses away from Miller and attended Mountainview High with him. She graduated in 2019, a year before Miller did, but the two had a number of classes together, she said in a phone interview from Florida, where she now resides.
“He would get in tons and tons of fights at school,” Haverlandt told The Daily Beast on Monday. “I think he had this sort of rage. I mean, he was just super aggressive.”
Miller “wasn’t really liked” by others, and didn’t have very many friends, according to Haverlandt.
“People thought he was weird, or rude, or just creepy toward the girls,” she said. “… He would always message me and my friends saying, like, you’re so pretty… Kind of like a weird type of harassment situation. And he would message us and bother the shit out of us.”
One of Miller’s few friends at Mountainview High was a varsity athlete that Haverlandt dated for three years, she said. The former jock, Keenan Harpole, was arrested and charged in April with murder in the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman at Portland State University, where he was matriculating.
When Haverlandt first read Miller’s manifesto on Sunday, which has now been taken offline, she said she found it so disturbing she couldn’t sleep all night. Still, Haverlandt said it came as little surprise that Miller, of all people, would be IDed as the shooter.
“To read [it] was super crazy, but also like, ‘Wow, makes sense,’” she continued. “I wouldn’t think of anybody else in my grade or in that school that… would do that. He was so recognized for being violent, and constantly fighting with kids, and just causing problems.”

There was “little surprise” he was the shooter, because he was “recognized for being violent,” and yet nobody warned anybody.




 

Category: Crime, Oregon

NFL Pre-Season Injury Report

Posted on | August 29, 2022 | Comments Off on NFL Pre-Season Injury Report

Rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr.

Professional football is a hard-hitting sport, and every NFL team has suffered its share of pre-season injuries this year. The Carolina Panthers lost quarterback Sam Darnold to an ankle injury in Friday’s game against the Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots rookie wide receiver Tyquan Thornton suffered a broken collarbone, the Los Angeles Rams lost their top draft pick, offensive lineman Logan Bruss, to a serious knee injury, and the Washington Commanders will start the season without rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr., because of gunshot wounds:

Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. says his “surgery went well” after he was shot Sunday in Washington, DC, in what police say may have been an attempted robbery or carjacking.
Robinson shared the news in a brief message on his Instagram stories on Monday, writing, “Thanks for the prayers! God is Great!”
Robinson suffered two gunshot wounds to his lower extremities and was taken to a local hospital, Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Dustin Sternbeck said. The shooting happened in the 1000 block of H Street NE, police said. Two suspects fled the scene and officers recovered a firearm nearby, Sternbeck said.

Robinson was a workhorse for the Alabama Crimson Tide last season, rushing for 1,343 yards on 271 carries and adding 296 yards as a receiver, totaling 16 touchdowns. In the championship playoff semifinals against Cincinnati in the Cotton Bowl, Robinson racked up 204 yards rushing, winning the game MVP trophy. He was apparently going to eat Sunday afternoon at Crab Boss, near world-famous Ben’s Chili Bowl on H Street, when he was accosted by two not-very-bright teenagers. Advice for young hoodlums: If you’re going to rob somebody, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound professional athlete might not be the easiest target:

“What has been reported to us is that [the suspects] may be between 15 and 17 years of age,” [Police Chief Robert] Contee said.
Robinson, 23, had just exited a location in the 1000 block of H Street NE at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday when the two armed teens approached him and tried to rob him, the police chief said.
“Our victim in this case began to struggle with one of the suspects, was able to actually wrestle a firearm away from one of the suspects, and he was shot twice by the second suspect,” he said. . . .
The teens ran from the area — a busy strip with several restaurants — and jumped into a car, which Contee said had been stolen two days earlier. D.C. police believe they found that car in Prince George’s County, in cooperation with county police.
The teens had tried to take Robinson’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, police said Sunday. The white luxury vehicle could be seen still parked on H Street later Sunday.

Brian Robinson worked hard to make it to the NFL, and if some punks think they’re going to steal his $90,000 sports car without a fight, they’ve got another think coming. But it’s a helluva sad day when an NFL player goes on injured reserve because of gunshot wounds.




 

Category: Crime, Football

Have We Reached Peak ‘Woke’ Yet?

Posted on | August 29, 2022 | 1 Comment

Sydney Sweeney is a young actress with enormous . . . talent. She has 14 million Instagram followers and is best known for her starring role on the HBO series Euphoria, for which she recently won an Emmy award.

Miss Sweeney was raised in rural Idaho in a religious family, and when her mother recently celebrated her 60th birthday, the party had a “hoedown” theme, with guests dressing in cowboy garb. But some fans, who also follow Miss Sweeney’s brother Instagram account, noticed that (a) Miss Sweeney’s father was wearing a pro-police “blue line” flag T-shirt and (b) some guests were wearing red “MAGA” style hats. The hats actually said, “Make 60 Great Again,” an obvious reference to her mother’s birthday, but what ensued was a big social-media firestorm, with left-wing political activists endeavoring to “cancel” Miss Sweeney because of her family’s apparent Republican sympathies.

Can we please stop this deranged “woke” witch-hunt mentality, in which we are expected to be outraged that white people in Idaho are voting Republican? I mean, I don’t know if you’ve seen any Idaho poll numbers lately, but unless the mob wants to “cancel” two-thirds of the population of Idaho, they need to shut up. Is it really so shocking that people who live in rural America generally have beliefs and attitudes that don’t match the preferences of urbanites? Please, forget about politics long enough to focus on Sydney Sweeney’s enormous . . . talent.




 

Category: Celebrities, Rule 5
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