Despite the Media’s Deranged Obsession, Not Everything Is About Trump

Posted on | July 21, 2022 | Comments Off on Despite the Media’s Deranged Obsession, Not Everything Is About Trump

Wednesday, there was a glitch on the Fox News signal, so I switched the home-office TV over to CNN and wow! If you haven’t watched CNN lately, it’s basically, “January 6 now, January 6 tomorrow, January 6 forever,” to paraphrase a certain Alabama Democrat. They’re leading every hour with some kind of Trump/“insurrection” angle, as if nothing else happening in the world could be of interest to a TV news audience.

How did CNN cover Tuesday’s Maryland primary? Do you even have to ask? TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! You see, Trump endorsed delegate Dan Cox in the GOP gubernatorial primary, while outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan (who is term limited) endorsed former state Commerce Secretary Kelly Schulz. Cox won and — ZOMG! — this crazy extremist kook is doomed in November because Trump. Except, maybe not:

It’s not clear whether Trump’s endorsement, however, was the key element in Cox’s win. That’s because the Democratic Governors Association spent more than $1 million in ads arguing that Cox was too conservative for the state. While the group insisted the ads were aimed at damaging Cox in a possible general election, the move was widely seen as Democrats trying to ensure that the candidate with lesser chance of appealing to a general electorate wound up winning the GOP primary.

Maryland has been a deep-blue Democrat stronghold since anyone can remember, and the fact that Hogan was able to win two terms as governor says a lot about how the stench of Baltimore has made the state more competitive for Republicans. The idea that Democrats would be able to “fix” the race by spending a million bucks in support of the supposedly “unelectable” Cox is an unproven hypothesis. In the Democratic primary, USMC veteran Wes Moore beat out former DNC chairman Tom Perez, and if it’s unlikely that Cox can beat Moore, it’s by no means certain that Schulz would have done better. And if the anticipated “red wave” arrives in November, Cox could win anyway.

Nevertheless, everybody fixated on the Trump angle (“Hogan won’t support Trump-backed Maryland governor candidate,” as the headline in The Hill declared) and nearly ignored what happened in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, where local legislator Neil Parrott scored a big win in the GOP primary over Matt Foldi, a former Free Beacon reporter who was endorsed by Hogan, Mike Pompeo and Kevin McCarthy, among other big-name Republicans. Before the primary, Foldi boasted: “We put the race on the radar. The Republican Party is completely united behind me in Maryland.” Unfortunately for Foldi and his supporters, somebody apparently neglected to inform voters in the 6th District of how “completely united” they were, as Parrott got 64% of the voter to Foldi’s 15% — a whopping 4-to-1 landslide. But guess how the Daily Beast headlined it? “Former Washington Free Beacon Reporter Backed by Don Jr. Gets Trounced in GOP Congressional Primary,” as if (a) the endorsement by Donald Trump Jr. was the most important thing about Foldi’s candidacy and (b) a vote for Parrott was a vote against Trump. This is completely false, because Parrott is a strong conservative who was first elected to the Maryland legislature as a local Tea Party organizer. The Washington Post noted:

In May 2020, he sued Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to challenge his emergency pandemic orders.
That said, Mr. Parrott has spent more than a decade trying to make it harder to vote. He proposed a voter ID bill during his first year in the assembly. After the 2020 election, Mr. Parrott traveled to Philadelphia to analyze provisional ballots in an effort to help Mr. Trump, and maintains that 1 to 2 percent of ballots he reviewed had signatures that didn’t appear to match the voter’s original registration form. He introduced legislation last session, which didn’t go anywhere, that would have required signatures on ballots in Maryland to exactly match those on registration forms.

So it’s not like Parrott is a RINO type, and yet the fact that Foldi was “backed by Don Jr.” is held out as signifying . . . what? It doesn’t matter. All the media care about is finding some way to connect everything to Trump, because they’re still in the throes of an irrational fixation. Meanwhile, my friend John Hoge shares thoughts from Carroll County:

Can Cox win in November?
Maybe. Democrats outregister Republicans by more than 2:1, but I haven’t noticed much in the way of Democrat candidate yard signs or bumper stickers in most of the state. Democrat turnout for the primary was only 16.7 %, compared to 23.8 % for Republicans. Joe Biden’s approval/disapproval polling is -12 % (37/49) in Maryland. And Wes Moore won the Democrat primary with only 36 % of the vote, so he may have trouble generating turnout in November.
Meanwhile, Cox’s showing here in Carroll County suggests he is developing an enthusiastic following. Republicans have a 2:1 registration advantage in our red county, but yesterday’s turnout was so lopsided that Cox’s vote total was 141 % of the total vote in the Democrat primary in Carroll County.
If those relative levels of enthusiasm hold, Cox might win. If Moore can frighten enough Democrats by running against Trump, he may win.

We’ve got about 16 weeks to go until the November mid-terms, and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens then. If, as I expect, Republicans score a “red wave” landslide coast-to-coast, we can expect to see GOP candidates like Cox and Parrott win races that, on paper, may not seem very winnable. And if the “red wave” happens, I would dare hope it will cause the media to belatedly realize their Trump obsession wasn’t really helpful to Democrats. November 8 can’t come soon enough.

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Maryland, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 20, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1784
357 Magnum: A Good Guy With A Gun
EBL: Is Elon Musk going to get harpooned on this deal?, also, Sorry Pete Buttigieg, but electric vehicles are not going to save us
Twitchy: ARGLE BARGLE RAR!, also, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) Provides Demented Testimony On Assault Rifles
Louder With Crowder: Legendary Football Coach Shares Powerful Pro-Life Message And The Pro-Abortion Left Wants to Abort Him Over It
Vox Popoli: The Potemkin “Tech” Industry, A Tale of Two Capitalisms, and The Human Handgrenade

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: EXCLUSIVE: Romney And Paul Face Off In Tense Senate Foreign Relations Meeting
American Greatness: Joe Biden Hits New Low of 31 Percent Approval in New Quinnipiac Poll; Only 19 Percent of Hispanics Approve, also, Politically Homeless?
American Power: Democrats’ Far-Left Climate Agenda Costing Americans More and More
American Thinker: Election Heroes Are Stopping Fraudulent Voting…Right Now, also, The Party of Affluent, Progressive Whites
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans condemn Pope Francis for befriending dictator Raul Castro while ignoring the torture of political prisoners, While Cubans suffer food shortages and chronic blackouts. the Castro dictatorship is building golf courses, and Happy #84 to new Hall of Famer Tony Oliva
BattleSwarm: California’s Gun Grabbers Screw Themselves
Behind The Black: NSF to do environmental impact statement on TMT, NASA awards SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch contract for Roman Space Telescope, and Pushback: Flight attendant fired for having opinions wins big against airline and union
Cafe Hayek: The Real Danger Is Hysteria, Bilateral ‘Trade Deficits’ and Money, and I Hope That Ms. Ruben Isn’t a Teacher of Economics or of Logic
Chicago Boyz: Extremely Cool, also, It’s Called Acting, Dear Boy
Da Tech Guy: Full Circle John Cleese meets the Babylon Bee, also, Reality catches up to Starbucks
Don Surber: Zelensky is an arms dealer, also, Even if it saves but one life, constitutional carry is worth it
First Street Journal: How does Joe Biden not realize how ridiculous this is?, also, 300
Gates Of Vienna: Annalena Baerbock Proposes a Solution to the Energy Crisis, “You Are Perpetrators and Accomplices of a Fascist State”, and Those Well-Armed Swedish Youths
The Geller Report: Nazi Collaborator Soros Contributes $1 Million to Beta O’Rourke’s Campaign, also, Hypocritical Swine John F. Kerry’s* family private jet emitted over 300 metric tons of carbon since Biden took office
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Zooming in on VFTS 243, and Yesterday’s Primary Election in Maryland
Hollywood In Toto: Tom MacDonald: Facebook, Instagram Censored My ‘Names’ Video, Peele’s Nope Might Be Year’s Worst Film, and Free Speech Win – Andrew Schulz’s Infamous Earns 3X His Investment
The Lid: Do You Know The Greatest Major League Pitcher EVER?, also, Dem Opponent Of Mayra Flores Hired Leftist Blogger To Post Racist And Sexist Posts About Her
Legal Insurrection: House Republicans Demand Answers on Reports of Federal Resources Used to Transport Illegal Immigrant Minors to Get Abortions, Rep. Massie Tears Apart Buttigieg’s Argument That Electric Cars Would Save Americans Money, and Black Scholar Aims to End the ‘Big Lie’ of the 1619 Project
Nebraska Energy Observer: Live Better and More Free
Outkick: Teddy Bridgewater Is Sick Of NFL Players Pretending To Be ‘Gangsta’, Kendrick Perkins Has One BIG Problem With LeBron James Saying Boston Fans Are ‘Racist As F–k’, and Poor Juan Soto Had To Fly Commercial And His Agent, Scott Boras, Isn’t Happy
Power Line: The apocalypse this time, Joe Biden, Cancer Victim, and Ken Green on Covid Policy Idiocy and the “Nobody Knew/Fog of War” Excuse
Shark Tank: Loomer Capitalizes On Webster’s Absence From FL-11 Debate
Shot In The Dark: Red Carpet Walk
This Ain’t Hell: Military dog retired and reunited with handler, Congress raises morale at forward Navy bases , and What could possibly go wrong?
Transterrestrial Musings: Air Conditioning, Fossil Future, and Gavin Newsom
Victory Girls: Buttigieg Wonders Why The Peasants Won’t Eat Cake
Volokh Conspiracy: Federalism and the Respect for Marriage Act
Watts Up With That: Wind Power Fail: Texas Heatwave Triggers Record Fossil Fuel Demand
Weasel Zippers: NYC Says It’s Overwhelmed By Illegal Aliens Being Dumped In The City By Texas, Biden Climate Advisor: Biden Will Use “Every Power Available” To Get Rid Of Fossil Fuels, and Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Insists “Border Is Secure”
The Federalist: Biden Has No Right To Declare A ‘National Climate Emergency’, Pete Buttigieg Wants You To Pay Higher Gas Prices To Lower The Price Of His Electric Car, and Watchdog Files Complaint After Wealthy Interior Secretary Haaland Reported Zero Assets On Her Financial Disclosures

*Who, by the way, served in Vietnam. (h/t the late Rush Limbaugh)

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In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 20, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.20.22 (Early Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Things don’t always go the way one plans them to…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Anna Netrebko Cancelled Again?
Twitchy: Non-binary teacher proud that her outreach helped a first-grader come out as transgender, also, Moderate San Fran liberal DESTROYS SF Public Schools AND the teacher’s union
Louder With Crowder: “Whoever Did This Is a Legend”
Vox Popoli: Making Millions with Comics, Unreliable Conclusions, and Does a Bear Glow in the Woods?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Time for Churches to Lead on Education, also, Setting Fathers Against Sons
American Greatness: Court Holds Illegal Ballot Drop Boxes Tainted 2020 Election, also, Democrat Congressional Staffers Unionize Over Poor Pay, Sexual Harassment
American Power: Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You’ve Heard [In Public Education]
American Thinker: The Left’s Blackmailing of Biden has Unleashed National Chaos, Stagflation and Systemic Uncertainty, also, Court Strikes Down “Quarantine Camp” Regulation in New York State
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Basic Competence News
Babalu Blog: Remembering Celia Cruz, Cuba’s Queen of Salsa, on the 19th anniversary of her death, also, Who listens to Don Lemon?
BattleSwarm: Semiconductor Update for July 18, also, Charges Against Jose Alba Dismissed
Behind The Black: Long March 5B rolls to launchpad, carrying Red China’s next large space station module, NASA delays launch of its VIPER lunar rover to over concerns about commercial lander, and Picking the Republican candidates to vote for in the Arizona August 2nd primary
Cafe Hayek: Political Activism: The Reality, On the Economics of Trade, Lighthizer Is a Lightweight, and On Why Bilateral Trade Accounts are Meaningless
CDR Salamander: SDP Becomes the Salamander Democratic Party?
Chicago Boyz: Command Failure in the Ardennes, December 1944
Da Tech Guy: Liberal Police Contradictions and Other Matters Under the Fedora, Report from Louisiana: Working two jobs, and Slouching toward Philadelphia
Don Surber: NYT and WaPo keep their yellow journalism awards, also, The Biden Dorktatorship
First Street Journal: Will Bunch really hates him some representative democracy when the voters don’t vote the way he thinks that they should
Gates Of Vienna: The Mysterious Increase in Demand for Coffins for Young People, Shootout at an Indiana Mall, and The Balkan Route Heats Up Again
The Geller Report: Soros-Linked Group Wins $172M Contract from Biden to Help Illegals Avoid Deportation also, ‘Scarf lady’ Dr. Deborah Birx admits she deceived Trump to push COVID measures
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Slow Black Hole, and Zooming in on the Southern Ring Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Andrew Schulz’s Infamous Offers Crash Course in Taboo Comedy, The Miracle That Was A Fish Called Wanda, and Rippaverse Artist Fires Back at Racist Critics
The Lid: Dems Poised To Give Billions To Rogue Nation That Shot Down Commercial Airliner
Legal Insurrection: Democrat D.C. Mayor Bowser Complains About TX and AZ Sending Illegal Immigrants to Her City, CA Gov. Newsom Doesn’t ‘Know Enough’ About LA County DA’s Poor Job Performance to Comment, and Prof Suggests Underlying Principles of Critical Race Theory Have Been Embedded in Academia
Michelle Malkin: A Transplant Miracle That Defied COVID Tyranny
Nebraska Energy Observer: Church: Where Are The Men?, also, But why?
Outkick: Deion Sanders Pledges Massive Chunk Of His Salary To Help Renovate JSU’s Facilities, Home Run Derby Controversy Surrounding Soto, Schwarber Has Sports Betting World Up In Arms, and Notre Dame Reportedly Wants $75 Million A Year In Media Money From NBC To Remain Independent
Power Line: Police Brutality In Washington, also, Full Circle for Feminism?
Shark Tank: RNC Tags Crist As The “Joe Biden Of Florida”
Shot In The Dark: Pauline Kael Syndrome, also, Yet Another Good Guy With A Gun
The Political Hat: Florida To Gaia: No Rights For You!
This Ain’t Hell: “Buffalo Soldiers” convention, Six More Are Accounted For, and Good Idea Fairy Part Deux
Transterrestrial Musings: Jill Breaks Out The Violin For Joe, Nanomechanical Computers, and Important Writing Advice
Victory Girls: Playing Games: AOC Pretends To Be Handcuffed During Abortion Protest
Volokh Conspiracy: The Good Samaritan With A Gun In Indiana Serves To Refute Four Common Gun Control Myths
Watts Up With That: The Heatwave Green Hysteria is Out of Control, also, Victoria’s Green Zealots Banned Gas Fracking – Now Running Out of Gas
Weasel Zippers: Lesbian Bar Shuts Down One Week After Grand Opening Because It Wasn’t Woke Enough, Dem Pro-Abortion Witness Suggests It’s Better For Black Americans To Be Aborted Than Born, and George Soros Donates $1 Million To Beta O’Rourke’s Campaign
The Federalist: Democrats Plan To Snatch Medicare Dollars From Seniors To Subsidize Their Rich Friends, Book About Nazi Slaughter Of The Disabled Nearly Lost To History Sends A Message To Post-Roe America, and NeverTrump’s Latest Attempt To Dismiss Election Concerns Is Particularly Dishonest
Mark Steyn: The Dress-Up Superpower, also, Aquatic Minute Man

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Aspiring Rapper Updates

Posted on | July 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Updates

Mario Austin, a/k/a “King Lil Jay”

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

It’s been a while since we updated our readers on the leisure life of the hiphop community, who have been keeping law enforcement busy. We begin in Chicago, where 29-year-old Mario Austin, a/k/a King Lil Jay, has been arrested on weapons charges. King Lil Jay just got out of prison on parole in April after serving seven years on a murder conspiracy charge connected to the 2015 death of his associate Filmon Rezene in a shootout with a drug dealer. One of King Lil Jay’s fans said the rapper “didn’t deserve” to be arrested as a felon in possession of a firearm, arguing that in “Chiraq” (as they call Chicago, where the casualty rate is like the Iraq War), King Lil Jay had a lot of “opps on the street” (enemies) and therefore was “staying strapped” (armed) “out of necessity of safety.”

Tione Jayden Merritt, a/k/a Lil Tjay

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Tione Jayden Merritt a/k/a Lil Tjay is recovering after being shot multiple times when “gunfire erupted at a Chipotle restaurant at a residential and outdoor shopping center in Edgewater” June 22. Now, I don’t know about you, but when I go to Chipotle for a bowl of barbacoa, rice and beans, I don’t expect to be dodging gunfire, so what’s the deal in Edgewater, N.J.? It’s right across the Hudson River from Harlem, and this proximity may explain why Lil Tjay was the target of a “botched robbery” for which police in Bergen County arrested Mohamed Konate, 27, of New York City. Police also arrested “Jeffrey Valdez, 24, and Antoine Boyd, 22, both of the Bronx, who were with the rapper and allegedly armed” — allegedly! Man, you take your Bronx crew down to Chipotle in New Jersey for some barbacoa and beans, and they can’t even protect you from a robber, even though they’re “allegedly” armed? Don’t know about you, but if my security crew was so incompetent, I ain’t gonna pay extra for their guacamole.

Ethan Reyes, a/k/a Notti Osama

Meanwhile, in New York, a sad ending for a promising young performer, as 14-year-old Ethan Reyes, a/k/a Notti Osama, got stabbed to death “during a scuffle with a 15-year-old rival” July 9 at a West Harlem subway station. The 15-year-old suspect “had an ongoing feud” with Notti Osama, sources told the New York Post, but “it wasn’t immediately clear what it was about. Reyes initially pushed the other boy on the [subway] tracks, sources said. He was then stabbed and tried to run but collapsed on the subway station’s steps, according to police sources.” Obviously, this highlights the need for common-sense knife reform laws.

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Category: Aspiring Rapper Update

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Minneapolis has proved itself a lucrative source of income for Ben Crump, who got his share of a $27 million settlement on a wrongful death claim in the George Floyd case, so now he’s back for another bite with the case of 20-year-old Andrew “Tekie” Sundberg. It is unknown what led to Sundberg’s mental health crisis prior to the six-hour armed standoff that began about 9:30 p.m. when a neighbor (about whom, more in a minute) called 911 to report that Sundberg had fired a gun through the walls of her apartment. Sundberg then holed up in his third-floor apartment while police evacuated the building, set up a perimeter and tried to negotiate his surrender. This continued until about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, when two SWAT team snipers posted on a nearby roof shot Sundberg.

“Tekie” was 4 years old when he was adopted from Ethiopia by Mark and Cindy Sundberg, who said in a statement:

Like millions in America and worldwide, Tekle struggled with his mental health. While we have received very little information thus far, by all accounts, it sounds like our Tekle was suffering from a mental health crisis. . . . The family has been given very little information about why Tekle’s mental health crisis became a death sentence.

Was this basically a “suicide by cop” situation? Trust me, it’s not just black people that get shot by cops in such situations. How many YouTube videos have I watched of bodycam footage where the cops are trying to “de-escalate,” pleading with the suspect — “Just drop the knife, man, so we can talk” — before he finally charges at them and gets shot? This kind of scenario is common enough that I’ve seen it play out dozens of times on YouTube, and involves crazy people of all races and ethnicities, so I can definitely say Cindy Sundberg is wrong about this:

Cindy Sundberg, who is white, said she believes her son would still be alive if he was white like her biological children.
“Everyone knows had it been a white person in that building, they would have talked him out, they would have waited,” she said.

Not true, but so far, we don’t know what it was that prompted the SWAT team snipers to shoot, and it would be irresponsible to speculate. But what went wrong with Tekie?

Steve Scofield coached Sundberg for two years when he was in 7th and 8th grade, and remembered him as a “sweet” kid. Tekle and Scofield’s son were friends.
“He had a big heart, really sweet kid,” Scofield said. “When I saw him a couple years ago when he was an adult, we hugged. He always struck me as a really sweet, misunderstood kid.” . . .
“I just feel like he didn’t get the support he needed, because the Tekle that I knew was just the sweetest kid,” Scofield said. “Every time I saw him, we hugged and we just exchanged kind words. He seemed like a really sweet person to me.”
He last saw Sundberg a few years ago.
“A few years ago my wife and I were out eating and he just happened to work at the restaurant,” Scofield said. “As usual, I gave him a big hug. We talked for a few minutes, and just asked how he was doing. That was the last I saw him.”

His parents said he “struggled with mental health” without getting more specific, and Tekie’s former soccer coach said that Tekie was working at a restaurant “a couple years ago,” so what can explain this descent into deadly madness? When protesters held a “Justice for Tekie” rally outside the apartment building where he was killed, they were interrupted by the woman whose 911 call led to the SWAT standoff:

A Minneapolis mother of two was seen on video confronting protesters who gathered outside of an apartment building where a Black man, Andrew “Teckle” Sundberg, was shot and killed by police last Thursday.
“This is not a George Floyd situation. George Floyd was unarmed. This is not okay,” the mother, identified as Arabella Foss-Yarbrough, was seen on video yelling at a group of protesters on Saturday.
Foss-Yarbrough was the neighbor of Sundberg, and said he shot up her apartment Wednesday evening while she was cooking for her 2- and 4-year-old sons, Fox 9 reported. She said the bullets ripped through her apartment, and nearly left her family dead or injured. . . .
“My kids have to deal with this and probably have a mental illness now because they almost lost their lives. There’s bullet holes in my kitchen because he sat in the f–ing hallway watching me move,” she said while confronting the protesters. “He tried to kill me in front of my kids.” . . .
Foss-Yarbrough called police during the shooting on Wednesday, who helped the family escape. As police responded to evacuate the building, “officers started taking fire,” according to a search warrant. The incident led to a six-hour standoff between police and Sundberg, which ended when two Minneapolis snipers shot the 20-year-old.
“I have Black children; I am a woman of color!” Foss-Yarbrough, who is of Black, white and Native descent according to the star Tribune, yelled at the demonstrators. “If I would have lost my life, would you guys do this for me?”

Things boiled over during Saturday’s rally and march for Tekle Sundberg, when the 24 year old woman who says he was shooting into her apt. showed up voicing her frustration with those gathering in front of her building on Sundberg’s behalf. @kare11 * video contains profanity * pic.twitter.com/qdi1vbgO7k

— Deevon Rahming (@DeevonRahming) July 16, 2022

Yeah, where’s her “social justice”? No matter how much sympathy one might have for “Tekie” Sundberg, the fact remains that he was armed and had fired shots that endangered this woman and her children. However, the incident that precipitated this standoff was not the first time Andrea Foss-Yarbrough had a problem with “Tekie” Sundberg. According to a GoFundMe page set up by her older sister, Sundberg “had been harassing her and stalking [Foss-Yarbrough] for months.” Gosh, isn’t it strange that the media covering this case haven’t followed up on that clue? If I were an editor at a local newspaper in Minneapolis, I’d be expecting my reporters to follow that lead and get to the bottom of it: What was the nature of Sundberg’s “harrassing . . . and stalking behavior” toward this woman? Was it some sort of erotic fixation? Were there other neighbors who felt threatened by Sundberg’s behavior? What about his employment situation? Was he still working? Had he been under psychiatric care? Was there a diagnosis of his mental illness? Was he off his meds?

But we don’t have answers to any of those questions, because apparently the local media in Minneapolis doesn’t know how to follow-up on leads, so all we can say now is what we’ve been saying for years:

CRAZY PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS!

Category: Crime, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 07.18.22

Posted on | July 19, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.18.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What’s The Opposite Of Diversity? University
EBL: The Iranian Bomb, Willis Haviland Carrier Invents Air Conditioning, and How Stable Is Red China Right Now?
Twitchy: Cope – Biden Knows How To Fix Our Problems, It’s Just Out Of His Immediate Control, also, U.S. Attorney’s Office Decides Not To Prosecute Colbert’s Crew
Louder With Crowder: TikToker Virtue Signals Over Pronouns, Gets Slapped By Her Cat , Weird Al Yankovic Gets Canceled by Woke Reviewer Over… January 6?, and Chris Pratt Shares Original Pitch for The Terminal List
Vox Popoli: “All Hell Will Break Loose”, No Gas for Germany, and On the Assassination of Shinzo Abe
Stoic Observations: Full Humanity For All
Gab News: Christians Need To Support Doug Mastriano

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Across the Rhine and into the Alps
American Conservative: The Battle Ahead, also, Worshipping Dead Horses
American Greatness: Regime Propaganda, Ray Epps, and the New York Times , also, Blame it on the Rain
American Thinker: Don’t Bang on My Teakettle, also, How the NAACP Lets Down American Blacks
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship tries to hide the reasons behind the massive protest in Los Palacios Thursday night, Pregnant woman loses baby after she’s injured in assault by Cuban police on residents standing in line for food, and The disgrace that is Pope Francis’ close relationship with Cuba’s murderous dictator
BattleSwarm: Nepotism And Official Oppression in Neches ISD, also, HIMARS vs. Russian Logistics
Behind The Black: SpaceX completes 31st launch in 2022, matching its entire output in 2021, Red Chinese university tests hypersonic space plane, and Pushback: PA school board settles lawsuit and will pay $300K for censoring critics
Cafe Hayek: About Climate-Change’s Economic Cost, also, Retailing Nonsense
CDR Salamander: It’s a Mid-Summer Midrats Melee!!, also, On D+0 on the Opening of the Next Pacific War – we Will Regret not Having This
Chicago Boyz: Starvation and Centralization, also, How to turn a recession into a Depression
Da Tech Guy: The Navy’s “punishments” for the Bonhomme Richard fire explained, Review: Season 2 of Capitani, and Virtue Signaling and Victim Envy
Don Surber: Why we don’t like Fox, also, 14 years after Obama won, Iran gets a nuke
First Street Journal: “She snuck out that night and been with some bad friends.”, also, Hold them accountable!
Gates Of Vienna: Ve Haf Vays of Making You Comply, The Boy Rapist of Skellefteå, and Tough Luck for the Potatoes
The Geller Report: Leaked Audio: Biden Threatened Ex-Ukraine President Poroshenko With Assassination If He Cooperated With Trump, Starbucks CEO Blames Woke Elected Officials For 16 Store Closures In Dangerous Cities, and Hate Group Southern Poverty Law Center Helping Out with the J6 Witch Hunt
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, M33 in Infrared and Radio, and Dealing with Incompetence
Hollywood In Toto: 35 Years Later RoboCop Is as Fresh, Raw and Relevant as Ever, Andrew Schulz: “The Future is Ownership, Not Censorship”, and Woke Is Just Part of the Problem Plaguing the MCU Now
The Lid: More Kamala Harris Staff Escapes Abusive Boss
Legal Insurrection: Elon Musk Lawsuit Response, The Woke Left is Destroying American History at Founders’ Homes, and Liz Cheney Trailing Harriet Hageman By 22 Points In Poll of Wyoming House Primary
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, Reflections on a Train Trip
Outkick: Suspected Murderer of Former NASCAR Driver Bobby East Shot and Killed By Police, Former WWE Ring Girl Set to Challenge Longtime Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Deshaun Watson Reportedly Intends To Sue NFL If He’s Suspended The Full Season
Power Line: Breaking Free From China?, Sympathy for Ray Epps, and Guest Post: Welcome to Soviet America
Protein Wisdom: Patrick J. Carroll Might Be A Psychopath
Shark Tank: Jake Hoffman Crushes “Fake News” Blog & Gonzalez-Pittman’s Bogus Attacks
Shot In The Dark: Had Enough Of WOMPWAs, also, Just The News!
STUMP: The Death of Ivana Trump: Falls are Dangerous for Seniors
The Political Hat: There Is Nothing More Discriminatory Than “Anti-Discrimination Laws”
This Ain’t Hell: Left-wing group lands big $$$ to help illegals avoid deportation, Culpability Found in USS Bonhomme Richard Fire, and Thomas Wayne Hudson – Even After Death, The Hits Just Keep on Comin’
Transterrestrial Musings: Filling A Vacuum, My Groucho Moment, and Rebooting The Moon
Victory Girls: Fauxcahontas Claims Pregnancy Centers Torture Women
Volokh Conspiracy: New Wave of Russian Emigration is an Opportunity for the West – but one we Seem Likely to Flub
Watts Up With That: John Christy Debunks Climate Models and Extreme Weather Hysteria With Laura Ingraham on FOX News, also, Germany’s Running Out Of Energy: Wind Turbine Construction Stalls, Firewood Becoming Scarce!
Weasel Zippers: Joe Biden Demonstrates Why He’s Totally Fit To Be President, U Mad, Bowser?, and Hunter’s Laptop Shows Dozens Of Meetings With Dad, Business Partners
The Federalist: MSNBC Regular Malcolm Nance Wants You To Kill Your Neighbor, Sri Lanka Is Just The First To Topple In Globalists’ Green Energy House Of Cards, and Fake News Board (Commonly Known As Pulitzer Prize) Defends Award To 2018 Russia Hoaxers
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Biden Just Had Such Bad Luck, Y’all

Posted on | July 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Biden Just Had Such Bad Luck, Y’all

As usual, Ace of Spades had the best headline for this:

“Doctor” Jill Biden: Joe Biden Had
Such Wonderful Plans For the Presidency
He Usurped But Darnit, The Actual Task
of Governing Keeps Getting In The Way!

The First Lady was speaking at a gathering of wealthy Democratic donors at a private mansion on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Some of my readers may be asking, “Gee, Stacy, how much does a mansion on Nantucket cost?” If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. On the other hand, if you can afford a mansion on Nantucket, why the heck haven’t you hit my tip jar lately? But I digress . . .

What Jill Biden told these rich Democrat megadonors:

“[The President] had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to address the problems of the moment . . .
“He’s just had so many things thrown his way,” she said. “Who would have ever thought about what happened [with the Supreme Court overturning] Roe v Wade? Well, maybe we saw it coming, but still we didn’t believe it. The gun violence in this country is absolutely appalling. We didn’t see the war in Ukraine coming.” . . .
“I know there are so many nay-sayers who say we’ll get slammed in the midterms. Okay. The Republicans are working hard, they stick together, for good or evil. So, we just have to work harder,” she said.

Why is her husband such a helpless victim of bad luck? Why do these “problems of the moment” keep happening? Why are “so many things thrown his way”? Well, of course, it’s not as if the Leader of the Free World is actually powerless to influence events. Consider, for example, the Ukraine war. Robert Spencer notes that Jill Biden “did not address the likelihood that Putin invaded Ukraine because he saw with the withdrawal from Afghanistan that America’s political and military leadership was weak, distracted with wokeness, and both unable and unwilling to challenge him in any significant way.” Exactly — we don’t know when Putin decided to invade Ukraine, but a good guess would be last August, when the disastrously bungled Afghanistan withdrawal demonstrated Biden’s weakness and incompetence.

The things that have been “thrown at” Joe Biden are mostly the direct consequences of his own bungling and bad policy choices, not to mention the fact that the Democratic majority in Congress is controlled by its most extreme fringe, so that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer keep stumbling over themselves in a futile effort to appease AOC and her “Squad.”

And I also have to thank Ace for this relevant meme:

Yes, we all remember what Hunter Biden said about his stepmother.

Category: Joe Biden

Rule 5 Sunday: Archer/Summer Illya

Posted on | July 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Archer/Summer Illya

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Most weeks we go for sexy over cute here on Rule 5 Sunday, but this week we’re going with cute. Illyasviel von Einzbern is the star character of Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, a magical girl manga & anime that’s part of the ginormous Fate universe. Normally Illya is a Caster, as befits a magical girl, but this is summer, so she gets to dress down in a swimsuit and squirt people with her magic wand transformed into a garden hose, which by Fate logic makes her an archer*. Unfortunately, the summer event is a horror movie, but as Summer BB explains to our heroine, she has nothing to worry about…or does she? Muahahahaha!
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