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In The Mailbox: 05.16.23

Posted on | May 17, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Noelle Dunphy and Rudy Giuliani, also, Schmitts Gay
Twitchy: Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll’s Resurfaced Social Media Posts Shred Her Credibility, also, Jonah Goldberg Whines About Being Reminded He’d Rather Trust Comey Than Trump
Louder With Crowder: Jiujitsu black belt takes down dude who attacked 7-11 employee, livestreams entire ordeal for our amusement
Vox Popoli: The Treason Interview, The Failure of Modern Science, Spirit in the Material World, Hide Mode Activated, and Arktoons Wants You

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Yes, the Homeless Are More Violent
American Greatness: Six More NYC School Gyms to House Illegal Aliens, also, Federal Judge Threatens to Hold DHS in Contempt Over Suspected Noncompliance With Temporary Restraining Order
American Power: Schizophrenic Woman Arrested After Physically Attacking People on Chicago’s Northside, also, The U.S. Censorship and Laundering Complex
American Thinker: Bill Barr Goes after Trump Again
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Urban Renewal News
Babalu Blog: The Biden administration has betrayed the Cuban people, Purchasing power of Cuban salaries reduced by half in past 2 years, will continue shrinking dramatically, Cuban dictatorship responds to increase in protests with an increase in violence, and Reports from Cuba: One million tourists at the expense of our hunger
Baldilocks: On Christian Busybodies, also, Book Advance Campaign
BattleSwarm:  Austin City Council Wants To Hand Millions In Graft To The Homeless Industrial Complex, also, Death Star Update – Preemption Bill Closer To Passage
Behind The Black: Private company developing concept for resurrecting Spitzer Space Telescope, Rocket Lab completes Photon transport spacecraft for Varda’s private returnable space capsule, Italy awards $256 million contract for testing in-orbit robotic satellite servicing, China’s Long March 3B puts another GPS-type satellite into orbit, and Surprise! The mainstream press still refuses to admit there was never any evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians
Cafe Hayek: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Busting Depression myths”, also, The Supermarket
CDR Salamander: We Were Lied To – No, We’re Lying To Each Other
Da Tech Guy: Schlichter Nails it in one Sentence: Lords and Serfs, A billion-dollar boondoggle, and Durham and Rubbing Your Face in it
Don Surber: Guns? We Need To Control Democrats
First Street Journal: This is the kind of thing that ‘progressives’ just don’t understand, also, The left just don’t understand economics
Gates Of Vienna: The Only Good Thing About the BBC is They’re Bad Liars, Rob Roos – Stop the Agenda 2030 Utopia, Filthy Multicultural Scum, An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Mornas, and Stenographers to the Apocalypse
The Geller Report: The FBI is the Most Dangerous Domestic Terror Organization in America
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, A Planetary Nebula and a Foreground Star
Hollywood In Toto: ‘Margaret’ Film Teams with Dylan Mulvaney for Paid Partnership, How Hollywood Made Russian Collusion Hoax a Million Times Worse, and Joe Rogan on Miller Lite Ad: ‘I Hate Identity Politics’
The Lid: US Soldier Caught Helping illegals Through Fence Into Texas
Legal Insurrection: Medaille University to Close at the End of August, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins, Appointed Despite Unhinged Rant, To Resign After Ethics Probe, WHO School Guidance Tells Kids Aged Four and Below to ‘Explore Gender Identities’, Anti-Capitalist Coffee Shop in Toronto Closes After One Year, and Netflix’s “Cleopatra” Is an Actium-Level Entertainment Disaster
Nebraska Energy Observer: “Stand up.”
Outkick: ESPN Can No Longer Build Stars, So It Bought One, USC Quarterback Makes Degree-Less Stetson Bennett Look Silly By Graduating With Honors In 2.5 Years, Stephen Jackson Says Suns Fired Monty Williams So They Could ‘Go Find A White Coach’, Kim Petras, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Model, Is A Biological Male, Deion Sanders Shows Off Outrageously Large New Truck, and Becky Hammon Suspended By WNBA For Mistreating Pregnant Player Dearica Hamby, Offering Impermissible Benefits
Power Line: Fox News declined to comment, Senate Democrats, Not Exactly Firing on All Cylinders, Will There Be Any Media Accountability?, and Down With Uber! And Doctors, Too!
Protein Wisdom Reborn: The Identity Politics Of Beer
Shark Tank: DeSantis Combats Biden Border Crisis, Sends Police & National Guard To Southern Border
Shot In The Dark: All That Is Needed Is That You Keep Sending Money, also, Music History
STUMP: Did New Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Inherit The Worst City Pensions in the Country?
The Political Hat: Leviathan’s Parents
This Ain’t Hell: Space Force Commander Is Not Happy
Transterrestrial Musings: News Only To Vegans, Reversing Aging, and “Libertarian Elites” On Voter Ignorance
Victory Girls: IRS Whistleblower And Team Axed From Hunter Biden Probe
Volokh Conspiracy: Minnesota Court Upholds Injunction Against Signs Reporting Neighbor’s Son Committed Sex Crime Against Homeowner’s Daughter
Watts Up With That: The King’s Climate Predictions, Media Ignore Delhi’s Coldest May Since 1901, and Obama Longs for the Days When Establishment Media Set the National Agenda
Weasel Zippers: Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Say Journalists Are Mostly Advocates, Not Unbiased, Chuck Todd Suggests GOP More to Blame for Border Crisis Than Biden, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Moves To Impeach FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Flashback: Dem Rep. Adam Schiff Calls Fake Russia Collusion Hoax “Beyond Watergate”
The Federalist: In A Healthy Democracy, John Brennan Would Already Be In Prison, The ‘Queen Of Mommy Bloggers’ Left Us A Cautionary Tale About The Need For Community, Companies Like Target Are Teaching Kids To Hate And Brutalize Their Bodies, Tuberville Is Right To Hold The Line Against The Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions, The Durham Report Leaves No Doubt: The FBI Is A Mortal Threat To Democracy, and If Texas’ House Speaker Wants Secure And Honest Elections, He Should Help Pass This Bill Banning Ranked-Choice Voting
Mark Steyn: Non-Stop Number Ones

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In The Mailbox: 05.15.23

Posted on | May 16, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.15.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tomorrow and Thursday are travel days, Wednesday I’ll be at the National Security Site most of the day, and Friday looks to be busy as well, so blogging may be sporadic.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What If You Called 911 And Noone Came To Help?
EBL: Support Daniel Penny, also, Vintage Beer Ads
Twitchy: DeSantis’ Press Secretary Conducts Masterclass In Trolling Drive-By Media, WaPo/NYT 2018 Pulitzers Aging Like Milk In The Summer Sun, and Salon Claims Situation In Florida Clearly A Threat To Democracy
Louder With Crowder: A herd of “Karens” stampede out of comedy club after comedian’s hilarious Dylan Mulvaney joke, Megyn Kelly lays down challenge to Hollywood actress Charlize Theron – “Come F*** Me UP”, and Beverly Hills steakhouse degenerates into all-out brawl, and the screaming is hilarious
Vox Popoli: Not the Next Ukraine, Like the Lambada, Only Math, Corporate Cancer Code Red, and Elon Musk Lied to You
Gab News: A Dangerous Precedent For Free Speech
Stoic Observations: Fear Itself

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Against a Dystopian Farm-Free Future, Mask-Wearers Are Poisoning Themselves, and The Ratcatcher
American Greatness: In Scathing Report, Durham Finds FBI Had No ‘Actual Evidence of Collusion’ to Justify Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, Time for Republicans to Confront January 6 Lead Prosecutor, and Supporters Raise $1.8M for Daniel Penny’s Legal Defense Fund
American Power: The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery on the Fall of MTV News, and Seattle Halts Mail Delivery to Southside
American Thinker: 2024: The End of Elections — or of Election Fraud?, The Counterattack of Reason, and Trump Takes a Hammer to the Carefully Maintained Delusions Inside the Left-Wing Bubble
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Catholic priest Alberto Reyes: ‘The moment has come for all of us for a transition’, Cuban-American entrepreneur in cahoots with dictatorship begins exporting vehicles to Cuba, King Raul’s daughter and fake president’s wife lead gay pride conga line in Cuba, and Nothing to celebrate on Mother’s Day for the mothers of Cuba’s political prisoners
Baldilocks: Obsession, The Scattered (Part One), and The Scattered (Part Two)
BattleSwarm: How California Destroyed Its Middle Class, also, China’s Targeted Espionage Continues Apace
Behind The Black: Intuitive Machines’ first mission to land on Moon delayed, SpaceX launches another 56 Starlink satellites into orbit, Another study suggests Saturn’s rings are young, much younger than the planet, Stratolaunch’s giant airplane Roc successfully completes first drop test of payload, and Today’s blacklisted American: Father gets fired immediately after speaking at school board against queer agenda
Cafe Hayek: Beware of “Common Good Capitalism”, On Wartime and Postwar Prosperity, and Rather than Issue ‘Baby Bonds’
CDR Salamander: About That Commission On The Future Of The Navy
Chicago Boyz: Educational Credentialism Strikes Again
Da Tech Guy: The Three Questions I Would Like Answered by a Potential DeSantis Campaign, How about the military stay out of housing?, “Where’s the Fat People?”, and A “local” story that needs to go national: Chicago cop murdered because girlfriend of accused killer needed money for a barbecue
Dana Loesch: I Put The Basket In The Water And God Was Faithful As Always, also, The Durham Report Makes It Official
Don Surber: Highlights of the Week, The Polish Plumber For The Win,
First Street Journal: ‘Progressives’ against common sense and reality, also, What about the right to a speedy trial?
Gates Of Vienna: Everybody Gets to Stay, Culture-Enriching Rape in the Hospital at Nanterre, Saman’s Dad Gets to Stay in Pakistan, and Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia
The Geller Report: The Threat Behind Biden’s Latest Lie About the ‘White Supremacist Terror Threat’, Court Blocks Biden Admin Policy of Releasing Illegal Immigrants Into US Without Court Dates, and Fox News Sued for Defamation by Biden’s “Who Do I F*ck To Be Famous & Powerful” Former Disinformation Chief
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Black Holes 101, You Keep Using That Word, Pan and Zoom, and Some Unindicted Coconspirators React
Hollywood In Toto: Never Woke Enough: Emma Watson Grilled Over Brad Pitt Praise, TheWrap Plays Dumb on Death of Movie Comedies, Why Jamie Foxx’s Medical Mystery Matters, and Why Chappelle’s ‘Batman’ Crack Will Leave a Mark
The Lid: PRESSTITUTES: Twelve Biden Scandals The Media Refuses To Talk About
Legal Insurrection: University of Chicago Reportedly Not Honoring Committment to Viewpoint Diversity, DeSantis Defunds “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Bureaucracies in Florida Public Universities, Word “Family” Unacceptable To Radical San Francisco Berniecrats, a Right-Wing “Common Dog Whistle”, USDA Wants to Ban Chocolate Milk From Schools Due to Added Sugar, High School Students in Kansas City Want Teacher Fired for Criticizing DEI Policies and Preferred Pronouns, and University of Colorado Researchers Find ‘High-Potency Marijuana is Associated With Psychosis’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, The Ascension of Our Lord, and The Wrong Side of History
Outkick: Kwame Brown Destroys Ja Morant After Gun Incident, Calls Grizzlies Star ‘NBA Dumb Boy’, ESPN’s Mike Wilbon Bans Ja Morant Shoes For Son: ‘Our Money … Is Not Going Toward That’, Joel Embiid’s Questionable NBA MVP Win Over Nikola Jokic Looks Even Worse After 76ers Bounced From Playoffs, ABC/ESPN Shows Barstool Founder Dave Portnoy During Celtics/Sixers Game 7, Twitter Goes Bonkers, Bryce Harper Snaps At Rockies Reliever, Leading to Bench-Clearing Spat, and Nebraska Pole Vaulter Jess Gardner Goes Viral For Third Nipple
Power Line: Displaced by illegals, Heap Big Trouble For Fauxcahontas?, Planned Parenthood vs. The Supreme Court, and Durham Report Rips FBI
Shark Tank: DeSantis – GOP Has Developed “Culture Of Losing”
Shot In The Dark: A Couple Of Bucks In The Proverbial Tip Jar, Leave No Man Behind, and Politics In Minneapolis
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 7: Other Physiological Causes of Death
The Political Hat: All Your Electricity Are Belong To California
This Ain’t Hell: Homeless veterans booted from hotels in advance of illegal aliens in New York, That time when the US Military destroyed Russian Wagner Mercenaries in Syria, Steven Spainhouer, Dallas mall witness and Army vet, and I’m here all week- tip the Vending Machines!
Transterrestrial Musings: Nuclear Fusion, The Anglosphere, An Indefensible Federal Gun Law, and Emergent Properties Of AI
Victory Girls: Poll Gets Hidden When Trans Activists Don’t Like The Answers, Auschwitz and Ice Cream Don’t Mix, and Rick Perry For President – Eye Rolls All Around
Volokh Conspiracy: A Flawed Attack on “Libertarian Elitism” About Voter Ignorance
Watts Up With That: Archbishop Blames Climate Change For Illegal Immigrants, Roald Amundsen tried and failed to tame a polar bear cub in 1920, Lomborg: ‘Organic agriculture’ could optimistically support 4.7 billion people – ‘Industrial agriculture’ could optimistically support 12 billion – Current global population is 8 billion, and Ferrari Rejects Green Pressure to Phase Out Internal Combustion Engines
Weasel Zippers: Biden At Howard University Says “Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat To Our Homeland Is White Supremacy”, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Says It’s “Sad” When Governors Take Action On Border Security, and Biden Retreats To Delaware Beach Home For Weekend As Border Crisis Rages
The Federalist: BOMBSHELL: Obama Admin Had No ‘Actual Evidence’ Of Collusion By Trump When It Launched Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, Mass Murderers’ Motives Matter To The Media Except When They Target Christians, The Left’s 2020 ‘Fake Electors’ Narrative Is Fake News, Corporate Russia-Collusion Hoaxers Dismiss Bombshell Durham Report Exposing Media Disinformation Campaign, Senate Republicans Demand Biden Forfeit Info Over His Attempt To Federally Interfere In U.S. Elections, and 10 Years Later, Would Gosnell’s ‘House Of Horrors’ Be The Norm In Post-Roe America?
Mark Steyn: You Don’t Own Me – Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis in The Scalphunters, Tal Bachman – Two Centuries of Rugby, and Steyn vs Ofcom – It’s on!

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I, For One, Welcome Our New Anti-White Racist Asian Academic Overlords

Posted on | May 15, 2023 | Comments Off on I, For One, Welcome Our New Anti-White Racist Asian Academic Overlords

University of Virginia Professor Sylvia Chong

Professor Reynolds called attention to this story, which puts me in something of a dilemma: Do I really want to be against racism?

Having long ago earned my dot on the SPLC “hate map,” there’s a certain reputational risk if I were to complain too loudly about racism, because I’ve carefully staked out a position in defense of what I consider a basic liberty — your constitutional Right to Hate.

Understand that I am not pro-hate, per se. But if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the government cannot engage in coercion in matters of personal opinion. Our freedom of religion, for example, means that I am required to tolerate beliefs that I consider 100% wrong — Mormonism, for example. It is probably unnecessary for me to go into detail about just how wrong Mormonism is, but the point is I can’t prevent them from promulgating their errors and, if this tolerance must be extended to the deluded followers of that preposterous fraud Joseph Smith, then why make a fuss about the followers of Louis Farrakhan?

As an American, you are free to hate whoever you want, which means that I can’t stop Professor Sylvia Chong from hating crackers like me:

UVA prof casts doubt
on White and Asian people dating
A University of Virginia professor recently warned students about relationships between White and Asian people.
During a talk entitled “COVID-19: The Asian American Experience” sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Kappa Delta Phi and Sigma Psi Zeta sororities, professor Sylvia Chong discussed anti-Asian racism in the era of COVID-19, as student newspaper The Cavalier Daily reports.
Chong referred to an earlier talk at the University of Virginia that referenced the Page Act of 1875 — a bill which limited the migration of Chinese women into the United States.
“Even for white feminists, Asian American femininity is often something they contrast themselves against,” Chong commented to the university newspaper. “Perhaps they don’t always say this about Asian Americans, but they certainly denigrate and exoticize Asian women abroad as victims of their patriarchal societies, victims of capitalism, victims of poverty and war.”
Among other topics, Chong discussed the recent Atlanta spa shooting, in which several Asian-American women were murdered.
“How can we be Asian American females and access… the features of other forms of femininity such as sexual agency at the same time that we also then protect our rights against exploitation?” Chong asked students.
However, Chong moved onto the event’s implications for University of Virginia students’ interracial relationships — particularly, the relationships between White males and Asian females.
Chong reportedly referenced former “Home Alone” star Macaulay Culkin’s appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” during which he expressed excitement about having mixed-race babies with partner Brenda Song.
“It’s going to be adorable — a bunch of Sean Lennons running around the house, that’s what I’m looking for,” Culkin told Rogan.
“I’m not trying to [denigrate] anyone’s relationships, but how do you know that you’re in a relationship for who you are, rather than what someone imagines you to be?” asserted Chong in response. “Are you seeing me? Are you seeing the shadow of the Page Act? Are you seeing Miss Saigon with the college degree?”

Well, that’s rather tame stuff. Professor Chong seems to have been referencing “Yellow Fever” fetishism — the whole Geisha girl fantasy, the mystery of the exotic Orient kind of thing — and so what? You expect me, an SPLC-certified “white supremacist,” to be offended by this?

Nope, not gonna get worked up about that. On the other hand, something left out of that story, but reported by the UVA student paper:

One student asked Chong about her thoughts on whether the University is adequately supporting the APIDA [Asian Pacific Islander Desi American] community. In response, Chong announced that she would be part of a group going to talk to University President Jim Ryan on this issue. Her hope is to hire more professors specialized in Asian American studies, as she is one of five professors affiliated with the APAS program.
“I wish that race were not so tokenized so that people thought if you have one, you have enough,” she said. “I never think that hiring these kinds of professors is at the expense of other minorities — I think it should be at the expense of the majority.”

NOW HOLD THE F**K UP THERE, LADY!

What you are saying is that university hiring is, and should be, done on a basis of racial quotas and that, in order to increase the quota of Asians in this zero-sum game, you’re going to eliminate jobs for white people.

Why in the world is everybody trying to make a thing about what Professor Chong said about interracial dating when — right there in the same story — you’ve got her telling the blunt truth about what “diversity” actually means on university campuses? See, this is where the line needs to be drawn. Instead of getting upset about someone saying something that could be interpreted as “racist” — who cares? not me — what we should be focusing on is the actual injustice of quota hiring, especially when such regimes are instituted and operated by government entities like state universities. The weird thing about Professor Chong’s remark is that Asian students are actually the ones being harmed most by racial quotas at elite universities, where “diversity” turns out to be merely a code word for favoritism toward black and Hispanic students. It seems she thinks she can deflect anti-Asian bias by encouraging other minorities to blame whitey, which is why she’s ax-grinding about an 1875 law that most people never heard of: “Oh, please don’t hate us for getting higher SAT scores — we’re victims of historic injustice, too!”

No, ma’am. Don’t think you can play that game as if we’re too dumb to see what you’re doing. Either the university is a meritocracy, or it’s not, and if you think you can split the difference, using wedge tactics to divide and conquer, you’re apt to learn a hard lesson about consequences. When that big Wheel o’ Karma turns, don’t come crying to me.

(Do I have to explain the Kent Brockman joke in the headline?)



 

 

Category: Education, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With IJN Atago

Posted on | May 15, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Best heavy cruiser waifu can into space! My favorite Azur Lane heavy cruiser gets a 21st century update in Japan Space Agency (JAXA) costume. Well, an adapted version.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2076, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Understanding Crime Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Girls With Guns, MAGA – Wipe That Smirk Off Your Face, CNN, The Greatest Commercial Ever, Maiwenn & Jeanne DuBarry, Trump & Kaitlan Collins Spar, At Midnight, Elle McPherson At Sixty, The Last Ship, Vera Lynn, and Coronation Kate

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sara Thornton, Tucker for President!, Fish Pic Friday – Bikini Angler, This is the Night, Koalas Succumbing to Venereal Disease, The Wednesday Wetness, Very Worried, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, A Sunday Assortment, Palm Sunday, Sewage Spill Closes Cambridge Oyster Grounds and  Intel Letter Made as Biden Debate Point

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For May 12

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Toward Compliant Towers

Posted on | May 14, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Toward Compliant Towers

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’ve been a fan of the British electronic musician yclept Conelrad for some time, and for a while I was downloading his Conelcast podcasts on the regular. I can’t say I was too surprised that he’s taking a break from Conelcast, but as you can see from the link to his Patreon, he’s throwing a sizable bone to his fans and holding out hope for something bigger and better in he future.

In other news, the draft in Da Tech Guy’s 1971 league is next Saturday, and fortunately for me I’ll be in the Washington area. Among other things, this means I won’t have to get up at the hideous hour of 0800 to slam coffee and draft in a semi-catatonic state, but it also means several months of Ted Williams and Washington Senators memes incoming as you get to suffer through the 1971 season with me. Here’s hoping this season will be better. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Life in Democrat-controlled cities. Get out while you still can.

Rule 5 Sunday: Late Night With Bri Teresi
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

Fake Indian Syndrome
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‘Right Wing Death Squad’? Bizarre Claims About Texas Outlet Mall Gunman
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Deep Holy Water
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Corruption?
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Mauricio Garcia, Incel
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.08.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

NY Times Publishes Human-Interest Feature About Infamous Fraudster
Flappr
EBL

In The Mailbox: 05.09.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Biden Family Got $10 Million From Foreigners Through ‘Web’ of LLCs
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

Violence Against Women Update
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.10.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.11.23
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In Terms of ‘Owning the Libs,’ Nobody Else Even Compares to Donald Trump
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.12.23
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending May 12:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (13)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Chicago schizophrenic Denise Solorzano

How many times must I repeat myself?

A Cook County judge set bail at $800,000 for a Jefferson Park woman who’s accused of randomly attacking women, sometimes with a baseball bat, this week. Judge Maryam Ahmad said she viewed Denise Solorzano’s bail amount as “$100,000 for each victim… to protect women and children in the community.”
Solorzano must post 10% of the bail amount to get out of jail on electronic monitoring while her case is pending.
The attacks began around 3 p.m. Sunday when Solorzano pulled up next to a 33-year-old woman in the 4200 block of North Richmond and began yelling at her about “beating her ass,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Sarah Dale-Schmidt during Solorzano’s bail hearing.
Solorzano allegedly got out of the car and punched the woman several times in the head and face until the woman fell to the ground. She grabbed the woman by her hair and dragged her down the street, but she fled when a witness intervened, Dale-Schmidt said. The victim suffered swelling, bruises, and cuts.
Solorzano approached a 19-year-old woman in the 4000 block of West Lawrence about an hour later.
“What would you do if I punched you in the face?” she allegedly asked the woman before grabbing her by the hair, slugging her in the head and face three times, and pushing her to the ground.
Solorzano stood over the woman and punched her a few more times until a witness tried to stop her, Dale-Schmidt said. Solorzano allegedly pulled the witness by her hair, tearing out a chunk as she fell to the ground. Dale-Schmidt said the woman covered her face as Solorzano tried to punch her in the face and slam her head into the sidewalk.
Chicago police officers arrived as the attack was underway. They briefly chased Solorzano’s car but terminated their efforts after she ran a stop sign, Dale-Schmidt said.
The attacks resumed on Tuesday. This time, Dale-Schmidt said, Solorzano brought a baseball bat.
“What would you do if I beat you with this bat?” Solorzano allegedly asked a woman standing with her sister and a 6-month-old baby in a stroller on the 4500 block of North Mozart around 11:27 a.m.
She stepped out of the car and attacked both women, hitting them in their hands and arms as they tried to protect themselves, according to Dale-Schmidt. A neighbor recorded part of the attack on video. Those victims, ages 27 and 31, experienced bruising and swelling.
While police were talking with the victims, a 34-year-old woman reported that a white sedan lurched toward her as she crossed the street with her dog near the 3000 block of West Cullom. A short time later, she passed Solorzano, who was standing on the sidewalk with a bat.
“What would happen if I bashed you with this bat?” Solorzano allegedly asked. She struck the woman on the back, shoulder, and arms as she tried to get past her, Dale-Schmidt said. Solorzano fled in her car when a witness approached.
Police soon learned of another attack in the 3000 block of West Belle Plaine.
A woman claimed that a white car almost hit her as she crossed an intersection before the driver lurched and reversed toward her about four times, forcing her to jump out of the way. Solorzano yelled about the woman’s ethnicity as the victim ran to another woman who was walking a dog nearby, Dale-Schmidt said.
Solorzano pulled her car into a nearby alley and threatened the women with her bat, striking one on the arm and head, according to the allegations. Both women ran away but noticed a pink bumper sticker shaped like a crown on the back of Solorzano’s car.
Chicago police later traced the car’s license plate to Solorzano’s parents and found it parked in front of the family’s home on the 4900 block of West Lawrence with a pink, crown-shaped bumper sticker.

The deranged attacker has “struggled with mental illness”:

Through tears after the hearing, Solorzano’s mother said that her daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia several years ago and has struggled to get medication to treat her condition and take it consistently.
When she would take her daughter to a hospital for treatment, “they just kept releasing her,” Solorzano’s mother said.
Solorzano’s arrest report indicated she told Chicago police she has also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which prosecutors said her family had confirmed.
The assistant public defender said Solorzano lives with her mother and had attended some college classes, but was not employed due to “some significant mental health issues she’s dealing with.”

Now she can sit her ass in jail and, while I don’t think the quality of psychiatric care in the Cook County correctional system is ideal, at least she won’t be attacking random strangers with baseball bats.



 

 

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 05.12.23

Posted on | May 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.12.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Safety As The Bedrock Of Civilization
EBL: If only there was a big beautiful wall along the border, Jeremy’s Razors: Greatest Commerical Ever?, and I did not know who this guy was, but glad he is gone
Twitchy: Horrendo Revolver Plays The Race Card Re Jordan Neely And It’s So Cringe, Epic Thread Shreds Leftist Claims About The Evil Right “Banning Books”, and Occasional Cortex Dragged For Drooling At The Thought Of Turning Illegals Into Serfs
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk confirms controversial new CEO with another controversial decision, Unhinged, blue-haired humanoid reads laundry list of people San Francisco can “f***” over guard acting in self-defense, and Ted Cruz explodes on smug reporter who claims GOP has no border plan (Cruz laid out a plan in 2021)
Vox Popoli: Spot the Puppet, also, Mystery Deaths in England
According To Hoyt: Farewell to Childhood – a guest post by the Balloonatic, also, Across The Ages

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Pope Francis Says Dogs Are Poor Substitutes for Children
American Greatness: Former Marine to be Charged in Death of Jordan Neely, also, 13 States Move for Emergency Relief From Biden Regime’s Open Border Policy
American Thinker: 3 Damning Equations to Defeat Global Warming Zealots, The Staggering Flaws of the Biden Family, Tennessee under Attack, and The War on America’s Babies
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Understanding Crime Friday
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In Terms of ‘Owning the Libs,’ Nobody Else Even Compares to Donald Trump

Posted on | May 12, 2023 | Comments Off on In Terms of ‘Owning the Libs,’ Nobody Else Even Compares to Donald Trump

Forgive me for not watching Wednesday night’s CNN town hall with Donald Trump, but he’s a known quantity — what could be learned from such an exercise? Exactly why CNN decided to give Trump this fat slice of prime-time programming, I can’t say. Even with Fox News melting down in the ratings after Tucker Carlson’s exit, CNN remains mired in the ratings basement, so anything that could make them seem relevant and newsworthy is an improvement, I suppose. At any rate, we’re now reaping the benefits of CNN’s decision, as all the Trump-haters in the media are completely losing their minds:

CNN leadership under fire
after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall
— Washington Post

CNN’s Trump town hall was a fascist ritual
— Noah Berlatsky

Trump’s team revels in town hall victory
as CNN staff rages at ‘spectacle of lies’
— The Guardian

CNN Went Full Jerry Springer
— Tom Nichols

CNN ripped for leaving Kaitlan Collins
helpless against Trump’s lies
— New York Post

CNN Employees Are Not Happy
With The Network’s Trump Town Hall
— HuffPost

This is excellent, in terms of “owning the libs,” and I’m perfectly willing to take pleasure in their misery, without worrying about what it may portend for 2024. In this weird era, the key to happiness is finding your zen space by enjoying such moments without any thought for the future.

Learn to be a groovy hippy: Live in the now, man.

Anything that makes Tom Nichols and Noah Berlatsky angry is, objectively, a good thing. When CNN is accused of staging a “fascist ritual”? Life doesn’t get any better than that. And why ruin such a peak experience by fretting over the contingencies of the next presidential election? Whatever happens in the future, it’s unlikely to be affected by your getting wrapped up in a ball of anxiety about it, so don’t sweat it.

Make America Hakuna Matata Again.



 

 

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