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In The Mailbox: 05.11.23

Posted on | May 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Netflix & Jada-Pinkett-Smith Race-Swap Cleopatra, Piss Off Egypt
EBL: For being almost sixty, Elle Macpherson looks great, also, Trump and Kaitlan Collins spar at CNN Townhall
Twitchy: Elon Musk Chooses New CEO For Twitter, Former Producer Whines CNN Left Collins “Helpless” Against Trump’s Lies, and Loudoun County Pro-School Group Kept Files On Pedos, Psychos, & The Antichrist
Louder With Crowder: Charlize Theron will “f*** you up” for not wanting your kids exposed to drag shows, Anheuser-Busch takes another massive hit when major bank downgrades the company’s stock, and Watch this mother GO OFF challenging her school board to explain what’s ‘family friendly’ about drag shows
Vox Popoli: Indoor Plumbing is White Supremacy, also, I Blame the Defense
Stoic Observations: Why Can’t We Be Citizens?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Walking in the Mountain Rain
American Conservative: Stop Enabling Bloodshed in Ukraine, also, Populism, Federalism, and the American System
American Greatness: Congressional GOP Introduces Bill to Ban Drag Shows at Military Bases, El Paso Preparing to Bus More Illegals to New York City Ahead of End of Title 42 , and ABC, CBS, NBC Devote ZERO Seconds to Oversight Committee’s Bombshell Findings on Biden Family Corruption
American Power: ‘There is no way Joe Biden can make it to election day next year…’
American Thinker: Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, and Broken, Biden Applies Soros’ Open-Border Policy, and Is Any ‘One Culture Superior to Others’?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Corrupt Pols News
Babalu Blog: Hackers take over Cuban state-run media website, leave message for the ‘president’, Cuban dictatorship imprisons 24 more dissidents in April, total number climbs to 1,048, and Reports from Cuba: Despite complaints of pollution, Energas increases production in Puerto Escondido
BattleSwarm: Coming To Texas This Summer: Demand > Supply
Behind The Black: Is this ice or lava in the death valley of Mars?, China’s X-37B copy appears to have tested docking and rendezvous while in orbit, Scientists: Stars orbiting close to Milky Way’s supermassive black hole do it alone, May 11, 2023 Quick space links, and Court victory in PA requiring a clean-up in voter rolls will do nothing to fix that state’s voter tampering
Cafe Hayek: Boudreaux and Perry on the Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class
CDR Salamander: No, Two More DDG To Spain Is Not Something To Celebrate
Chicago Boyz: Git ‘er done
Da Tech Guy: The Good Trump As Seen on CNN, also, We should never have surrendered the Culture War to the Political Left
Dana Loesch: Daniel Penny Charged For Jordan Neely’s Death
Don Surber: Liberals Sure Like Dead Black Men
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Campaign canvassers for Helen Gym Flaherty prove the futility of gun control laws, also, Khader Adnan has gone to his eternal reward
Gates Of Vienna: The Next Scam – Climate Refugees, Jew-Hatred in Malmö, Server Trouble, Marine Le Pen on the EU Dictatorship, and Another Syrian Success Story
The Geller Report: Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) Arrives at Capitol in Wheelchair in First Photos, THE BIGGEST LIE: Only 12% of Atmospheric CO2 Added Since 1750 Is Man-Made, TRUMP DESTROYS CNN AT CNN TOWN HALL, Left-Wing Melts Down, and FBI Refuses to Give Congress Informant File Alleging Biden Took Bribes as Vice President
Glenn Reynolds: Thoughts Upon A Journey
Hogewash: Nothing to See Here. Move Along, A Universe of Sound, Time Wasting Bureaucracy, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Tries to Revive Dan Rather’s Reputation (Again), also, Carmen Squanders Explosive U.S.-Mexico Border Clash
The Lid:  CNN Townhall with Trump Backfired Tremendously — On CNN
Legal Insurrection: Loudoun County Residents Threatened by Social Media Group With Alleged Ties to Local Officials, “The sense that we are losing control of our own country, by the design of politicians, is creating a fury”, Gov. Hairgel Less Than Enthusiastic About Reparations Checks, Mayorkas Shuts Down April Ryan Over Fake Border Patrol Whipping Migrants Narrative, and Total Vindication: Full Reinstatement and Back Pay For Three Barrington (RI) Teachers Fired For Refusing Covid Vax
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Gales of November
Outkick: Anthony Davis Is NBA’s Softest Player, Leaves Game In Wheelchair After Being Hit In The Face, Bomani Jones Complains ESPN Didn’t Give Him Another Full-Time TV Show After His Failed, Deion Sanders Humbles His Son Shedeur, Jimbo Fisher Takes A Shot At TCU While Riling Up Texas A&M Fans In Fort Worth At ‘Billy Bob’s’, Pat McAfee Reaches Agreement With Brett Favre To Drop Lawsuit, No Money Paid As Part Of Settlement, and Meet Phillies Lap Dance Fan Adrienne Fabi Who Is Now A Viral Sensation
Power Line: Campaign Tidings, Trump vs. CNN, and The Receipts for Weingarten’s Lies
Protein Wisdom Reborn: The Black Face Of White Supremacy – MLK Jr.
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Questions Biden Family Transactions
Shot In The Dark: Unexpectedly, also, Question For Emery & Other DFL/Democrat Commenters
The Political Hat: Sacrificing For Gaia – Joe Biden’s Environmental Justice, California Bans Locomotives, & Bugs For Lunch At A Posh British School
This Ain’t Hell: Short take Thursday: Perry gets 25, Biden warns, Mayorkas lies, Air Force Pilot Diversity Fail, and Veteran warns “Broken Arrow” ahead of expected post Title 42 illegal immigration surge
Transterrestrial Musings: Jet Fuel From Air, Question on Immigration, and Eat Meat
Victory Girls: CNN Trump Town Hall Becomes a Slug Fest
Volokh Conspiracy: Supreme Court Roundup: The Supreme Court Should Review and Enjoin the Illinois Gun Ban, also, The Case Against the Public Property Rationale for Immigration Restrictions
Watts Up With That: Fauci, Fear, Balance and the Grid, Saudis Demand Hydrogen Enthusiasts Back their Hype with Money, and Entire Global Food Supply at Risk From Disastrous Response to So-Called ‘Nitrogen Crisis’
Weasel Zippers: Biden Admits The Obvious: “We’ve Had Chaos At The Border For A Number Of Years”, Awesome: Kevin McCarthy Cancels Rashida Tlaib’s Anti-Semitic Event At U.S. Capitol, Mexican President Calls Florida’s Tough New Anti-Illegal Immigration Law “Immoral,” “Inhumane,” “Repressive”, and The View Blathers That Pro-Trump CNN Town Hall Audience “Not American”
The Federalist: It’s Past Time To Prioritize Skills-Based Immigration, The Problem With Matt Walsh’s Argument About Gaming, Feds Started A Dangerous Game With Hunter Biden’s Laptop, But GOP Lawmakers Can Finish It, Biden DHS Is Literally Inviting Mexican Officials To Send Batches Of Illegals Across The Border, NYT Reports On Bombshell Evidence Of Biden Influence-Peddling Scheme By Denying It Exists, and ‘The Wrong Side Of History’ Is The One With Air Conditioning, Dishwashers, And Gas Stoves
Mark Steyn: Lurking Evil

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In The Mailbox: 05.10.23

Posted on | May 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.10.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #2075
EBL: Well since she asked, I like anything Juliette Ochieng writes about
Twitchy: Jonathan Turley breaks down Biden family allegations during House Oversight presser, As if Biden’s border disaster wasn’t bad enough, and “All roads lead to Joe Biden”
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk clarifies working relationship with Tucker Carlson as Tucker’s new video approaches 80 MILLION views on Twitter, MAGA bro illustrates appropriate way to respond to any CNN reporter, and CBC News comes crawling back to Twitter after quitting and Elon Musk has the perfect meme to welcome them
Vox Popoli: The Construction of a Criminal, Post-Democracy in Pakistan, The End of He Said – She Said, An Integral Role, and The Limits Have Been Reached

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Immigration Impotence
American Greatness: Speaker Kevin McCarthy Forbids Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) from Hosting Anti-Israel Event at the Capitol, House Oversight Report: Bank Records Show Pattern of Biden Family Influence Peddling While Joe Biden Was V.P., and DeSantis Signs Several Bills Cracking Down on Red Chinese Influence
American Thinker: How Liars Wreck a Country, The IPCC Radical Climate Change Agenda Is a Neo-Marxist, Postmodern Value Narrative, and Neverending Daycare as a Way of Life
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Imprisoned Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer denied family visits, Imprisoned dissident women in Cuba denounce systematic sexual abuse and torture by prison staff, Cuban activists: Caimanera protests a warning to the Castro dictatorship, and AMLO confirms fentanyl shipments are coming from China
BattleSwarm: A Bakhmut Reversal?
Behind The Black: China launches cargo freighter to its Tiangong-3 space station, UK regulators give okay on Viasat’s purchase of Inmarsat, SpaceX successfully launches another 51 Starlink satellites, Scientists: Real women are better to send to Mars than real men, and Hiking in a most unusual way, for others
Cafe Hayek: Befuddling
CDR Salamander: Trust Is Overrated
Chicago Boyz: An Unexpected Defeat
Da Tech Guy: Dynasty 1996 Short Season 16 team, Draft League AL East – The Story so Far
Dana Loesch: Trump Found Guilty Of Defamation
Don Surber: Govern Like A King
First Street Journal: Helping without helping, also, “Progressive” campaign workers, both packing heat, get into a shootout in Philly
Gates Of Vienna: Olaf Scholz Wants More Nig-Nogs in Germany, May Day in France, Culture-Enriching Stabbing of Schoolgirls in Neukölln, Nancy Faeser, Champion of Free Speech, and Mohammed Coefficient: Infinite
The Geller Report: Biden Family CREATED A NETWORK of More Than 20 Shell Companies To Money Launder, Receiving More Than $10 MILLION DOLLARS From China, Romania For Influence Peddling, TRUMP VOWS TO APPEAL, and McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib’s Jew-Hating Congressional Event
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Antennae Galaxies in Visible Light and Radio
Hollywood In Toto: Natalie Portman Ignores Her Part in Time’s Up Collapse
The Lid: Lying Joe Biden Has Outright Lied At Least 27 Times In The Last Two Weeks
Legal Insurrection: Mysterious Outbreak of Brain Infections Hitting Children in Nevada, Other States, The Left’s Three-Part Strategy Targeting The Supreme Court, Rep. George Santos in Custody, Faces Federal Charges Including Theft of Public Funds, Mayorkas Blames Congress for Border Crisis as 10,000 Migrants Crossed on Monday, Tuesday, and 11 State Attorney Generals, Including D.C., Want Federal Action on Gas Stoves
Nebraska Energy Observer: Burning down the House, Coronation and perhaps Dethronement
Outkick: Indigenous NHL Player Handles ESPN Name Joke With Class And Grace, Paige Spiranac Goes Viral With Simple Golf Advice Video, Matt Araiza Speaks Out After Investigators Say He Was Not Present During Alleged Gang Rape, Titans QB Malik Willis In Danger Of Being Cut One Year After Being Drafted, Insider Predicts, Lane Kiffin Can Mess With Nick Saban Because He’s Like ‘Family’, But It ‘Pisses’ Him Off When Others Do, and WNBA Team Cuts LSU National Champion Alexis Morris Just Hours After Hyping Her First Game Up On Social Media
Power Line: Chaotic with a chance of meatballs, Directly from the deep state to you: The report, and Is There an Honest Government Agency?
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Rape of the Locke
Shark Tank: Sexual Predator Busted For Election Fraud
Shot In The Dark: Atlas Shrugs, also, Our Idiot Overlords Part XVI
STUMP: Choices Have Consequences: Public Pension Investments in Alternative Assets
The Political Hat: Enshrining Parental Rights In Texas
This Ain’t Hell: Big week for base renaming, One More Accounted For, and George Santos taken into federal custody, to appear before federal judge
Transterrestrial Musings: About Those Ethics Complaints About Clarence Thomas
Victory Girls: Liz Cheney Persists Against Trump, Ignores Biden Grift
Volokh Conspiracy: Can The Texas House Expel A Member Who Already Resigned?, also, Libel Suit Against Rep. Maxine Waters Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: Democrat Rep. Claims Climate Change is Root Cause of Illegal Immigration, Royal Dilemma: The People who Most Support Ditching the Monarchy are Climate Alarmists, and ESG Part I: An Examination of Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices with Attorneys General
Weasel Zippers: Biden Won’t Rule Out Taking Unilateral Action On Debt Limit If Congress Doesn’t Submit To His Demands, Report: Core Inflation Remains Sky-High And Is Not Coming Down, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Won’t Say If He Believes It’s A “Crisis” At Southern Border
The Federalist: Biden Administration Claims Full-Time Mothers Hurt The Economy, George Santos’ Real Crime Was Making Democrats Look Stupid, The Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Position Makes Zero Sense, Merrick Garland’s Refusal To Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers The Country, and The Next Frontier For The Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia
Mark Steyn: I’m a Dole Man!

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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | May 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Anastasia Gilley (left); Marquis McCloud (right)

Jackson County, Florida, is one of those out-of-the-way places most people don’t think about when they think about the Sunshine State. It’s a mostly rural county that sits up against the Alabama state line, south of Dothan, and the only reason most people ever go there is to pass through on the way to Panama City Beach. Now it’s in the news:

Jackson County is reeling from tragedy after investigators found the body of a 19-year-old pregnant woman who had been missing for a week and arrested a man in connection with her murder.
Anastasia Gilley, who was four months pregnant, had last been seen at her home on May 3, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Her disappearance touched off “around the clock” efforts to find her by JCSO and the Houston County Sheriff’s Office in South Alabama.
“The investigation quickly led to the arrest of an Alabama man, who has been in custody since earlier this week,” JCSO said in a news release. “The suspect has been uncooperative throughout this entire investigation.”
Marquis Devan McCloud, 33, was arrested on a charge of capital murder during a first-degree kidnapping, authorities said. More charges are pending.
Following leads from interviews and other “investigative techniques,” law enforcement searched various locations in Jackson and Houston counties. Early Wednesday, investigators found a deceased victim near Headland, Alabama, a small town outside Dothan, Alabama.
“Investigators believe this to be the body of Anastasia Gilley, pending an autopsy,” JCSO said in the news release.

The New York Post refers to McCloud as Gilley’s “boyfriend,” but police haven’t actually said anything about such a relationship:

Cops said McCloud — whose violent rap sheet includes a rape conviction — had already been in custody for several days but was uncooperative during the frantic search for his alleged victim.
The Alabama man was being held on a probation violation before investigators hit him with the new raps after finding Gilley’s body. . . .
In addition to the rape cases, McCloud’s criminal history includes terror threats, robbery, battery and violation of sex offender laws. . . .
Detectives zeroed in on McCloud after discovering that he had corresponded with Gilley prior to her disappearance.

Don’t expect to see this case on CNN, nor should you expect that feminists — who love to denounce “violence against women” — will mention this case as an example, for some reason.



 

 

Category: Florida, Violence Against Women

Biden Family Got $10 Million From Foreigners Through ‘Web’ of LLCs

Posted on | May 10, 2023 | Comments Off on Biden Family Got $10 Million From Foreigners Through ‘Web’ of LLCs

James Comer drops the bomb on Biden Inc.:

The Biden family and its business associates created a complicated web of more than 20 companies, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee — a system GOP lawmakers say was meant to conceal money received from foreign nationals.
Sixteen of the companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president, the committee said in a press conference on Wednesday. The Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received more than $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies, the records show. These payments occurred both while Biden was in office as vice president and after his time in office ended.
In what Representative Nancy Mace called an act of “financial gymnastics,” many payments were routed from foreign companies to the Biden family’s business associates’ companies which then doled out payments to the Bidens in incremental payments to different bank accounts in an alleged attempt to hide the source of the funds.
At least nine Biden family members received payments, according to committee chairman James Comer. That includes Hunter Biden; James Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; the late Beau Biden’s wife, Hallie Biden; Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle; Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen; and “three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother.”
Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate’s account. Comer said of the countries the Biden family was influence peddling in, China is “the most reputable.”
The committee revealed Wednesday that records suggest the Biden family and its associates’ business dealings in Romania “bear clear indication of a scheme to peddle influence” from 2015 to 2017.
At the time, then-Vice President Biden spoke out against Romanian corruption while the Biden family received more than a million dollars from a company controlled by a Romanian national, Gabriel Popoviciu. Popoviciu, who has been accused of corruption, sent the money through a Biden family associate, according to the committee. Sixteen of the seventeen payments involved in the deal occurred while Biden was still in office. The money “stops flowing from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency,” Comer said.
The Bidens also received “millions of dollars from China,” with Comer saying it is “inconceivable that the president did not know” about the payments.

Read the whole thing. Of course, there’s nothing about this on CNN, which is too busy going on about George Santos to bother noticing this $10 million Biden scandal. Meanwhile, at NBC News:

House Republicans escalate
attacks on Biden family,
alleging business with foreign nationals

See, that’s the story: Republicans are engaged in “attacks,” and all this clearly documented evidence of shady foreign payoffs to the Bidens? That is merely what Republicans are “alleging.”



 

 

Category: Corruption, Joe Biden, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 05.09.23

Posted on | May 10, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: So Trump did not rape weirdo Jean Carroll, but he owes her millions of dollars for saying he did not rape her?
Twitchy: Tucker Carlson’s Bringing His Show Back…To Twitter!, Randi Weingarten Pushes A Social Media Scrub Tool – We All Know Why, and Parents Sue School District That Encouraged Their Kids To Join “Secret” LGBTWTFBBQ Club
Louder With Crowder: Reporter’s free beer experiment at a concert turns into an “unmitigated disaster” for Bud Light, NFL star lost job over rape allegations – new evidence shows he wasn’t even at the party, and Barista goes bananas on nice old lady she claims was “transphobic,” then turned and got violent
Vox Popoli: The Clowns Know Collapse is Nigh, Preparing for Defeat, The Russians Call Out NASA, and Want Has Nothing to Do With it

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Nation in Search of Men
American Greatness: Street Thugs and the Intellectual Thugs Who Enable Them, Senate Republicans Show They Have Votes to Block Debt Ceiling Bill, and Report: Former CIA Director Misled Signatories of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter
American Power: ‘Millions of Deportations’ 
American Thinker: How the Feds are Fueling a New Mortgage Crisis, also, From the L Word to Cultural Marxism
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Stupid Idea News
Babalu Blog: Three members of the Cuban women’s field hockey team defect in Barcelona, Cuban dictatorship admits 60% of its ambulances are kaput, no remedy in sight, and Suicide among top-ten causes of death in Cuba, along with accidents, heart disease, and cancer
Baldilocks: Racial Entanglements
BattleSwarm: The DEI Rot At UT, also, Three Cheers For The Death Star
Behind The Black: Momentus test orbital tug successfully raises orbit using water-ionized thrusters, NASA now demolishing the obsolete mobile launch platform used during Apollo, Space junk removal company ClearSpace signs deal to launch on Vega-C, Paperwork on Mars, and Pushback: School board forced to restore contract it tried to cancel because it hates Christians
Cafe Hayek: Gotta Mention the Iceberg, also, Michael Lind Slays A Minimum-Wage Straw Man
CDR Salamander: Lothair, Louis, Charles…and Sam’s Bar Tab
Chicago Boyz: Disinformation
Da Tech Guy: The Kinks at 60 – here are their 10 best albums, A Feature Not A Bug in Chicago, Is rock ‘n’ roll here to stay?, and Bud Light Limbo, How Low Can Sales Continue to Go?
Don Surber: White Supremacy – Not Just For Whites Any More
First Street Journal:  Hold them accountable! The good old boys’ network strikes again, also, I’ve said it before: today’s left are pro-choice on exactly one thing!
Gates Of Vienna: No to US Troops in Czechia!, Fox Appointed to Guard Henhouse, Shia vs. Sunni in Vienna, and Belligerence in the Buff
The Geller Report: SOROS To Buy Bankrupt Far-Left VICE NEWS, BIDEN BANS THE NY POST, and Tucker is Back!
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Crab Nebula in 3D, The Lupus 3 Dark Cloud, and That Pesky Bill of Rights
Hollywood In Toto: Adam McKay, Chelsea Handler Mum on Funding Attacks on Art, Society, Can Oppenheimer Bring Patriotism Back to the Big Screen?, Rob Schneider Calls Out Kimmel, Young for ‘Disgusting’ COVID Stances, and Joe Rogan Offers Perfect Description of Anti-Woke Comedy
The Lid: Cook County Prosecutor Quits After 20 Years Because Soft-on-Crime, Soros-Funded State’s Attorney
Legal Insurrection: Drone Catches Hundreds of Migrants Crossing Into Texas Days Before Title 42 Ends, Chicago Prosecutor Quits After 20 Years, Slams Leaders for Putting City ‘On a Course to Disaster’, Texas School District Failed to Tell Parents After First Grade Boys Allegedly Force Girl to Perform Sex Act, Filmed on iPad, Air Force Diversity Pilot Program Not Only Failed, It Likely Violated Its Own Non-Discrimination Policies, and Dept. of Energy Going After Dishwashers With New ‘Efficiency Rules’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Of Coronations and Liberty, also, Be aware – beware!
Outkick: Minor League Team Is Giving Away George Costanza Bobbleheads, Georgia Football Will Not Travel To White House For National Championship Celebration Because Of Date Offered, South Carolina Student Finally Reveals Herself As ‘Cocky’ Mascot At Graduation After Two Years On Job, The Pat McAfee Show Reportedly Could Head To ESPN, Woke NYT Columnist Who Crushed Olivia Dunne Is Silent On LSU’s Angel Reese Posing For SI Swimsuit Issue, Using Sex Appeal, and LSU Women’s Basketball Star Freshman Flau’jae Johnson Calls Out Haters In New Rap Shouting Out Hailey Van Lith
Power Line: The floggings will continue, ,The Daily Chart – Cars and Bagels and Electric Vehicles, the Wave of the Past
Shark Tank: DeSantis Signs $1 Billion Teacher Pay Increase, Imposes Limits On Union Bosses & School Board Members
Shot In The Dark: A Nation Of Cowards, also, Do Try To Keep Up
STUMP: Some U.S. Mortality Nuggets – Meep on the Beeb (Radio 4 podcast)
The Political Hat: The Gender Homunculus
This Ain’t Hell: Texas jerk shoots up mall, racist ties alleged, Mauricio Garcia, Texas mall shooter, washed out of Army infantry training, and Adams Plans Migrant Dumps
Transterrestrial Musings: The Trans Hill, Carless, Sexless Teenagers, If Something Cannot Go On Forever, and Condolences To Glenn Greenwald
Victory Girls: Are Wind Farms Killing Whales And Other Living Things?
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Judges’ Standing Orders
Watts Up With That: Thanks, Guardian, For Reporting that Europeans Are Also Unwilling to Make Huge Lifestyle Changes to Stop Climate Change, The Auto Industry in Jonestown, and Americans Increasingly Choose a Warmer Life
Weasel Zippers: Biden Completely Malfunctions During WH Remarks, WH: Biden “Has Been Closely Consulting” With Kamala Harris On Southern Border Crisis, and The View: Blacks And Hispanics Not “Immune” From Being “White Supremacist”
The Federalist: Hollywood Learns The Downsides Of Mass Manufacturing Leftist Drivel With AI, E. Jean Carroll’s Original Claims About Trump Were Absurd, But That Didn’t Stop The Media From Amplifying Them, Biden Needs A Syria Policy, Not A Dangerous Replay Of Obama-Era Concessions, Conservatives, Get Busy Ballot Harvesting Or Get Busy Losing, and Government-Funded Censors Violated Congress’s Mandate To Target Only Foreign ‘Disinformation’
Mark Steyn: Now We Are Six

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NY Times Publishes Human-Interest Feature About Infamous Fraudster

Posted on | May 9, 2023 | 1 Comment

You remember Elizabeth Holmes, right? A Stanford University dropout, she raised $700 million in startup capital for a medical testing company, Theranos, and by 2014, when the company’s value had soared to $9 billion, Forbes magazine “recognized Holmes as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire.” It was all a scam.

The scam involved a blood-testing machine, called “Edison,” that was supposed to revolutionize medical testing. In fact, Theranos was actually using equipment from other manufacturers to run blood tests. Holmes was widely celebrated as the face of “women in tech,” but her scam was exposed by the Wall Street Journal in 2015. She was indicted on federal fraud charges in 2018 and last year was sentenced to 11 years in prison. She is currently free pending appeal, and the New York Times did a feature story about her Sunday that pissed off nearly everybody. It’s easy to see why people are angry, with passages like this:

Ms. Holmes’s defenders, stretching back to childhood, said in letters to the court, and in conversations with me, that the feverish coverage of Ms. Holmes’s downfall felt like a witch trial, less rooted in what actually happened at Theranos, and more of a message to ambitious women everywhere. Don’t girl boss too close to the sun, or this could happen to you …
“There’s an unspoken lesson for female executives: you’re allowed to be successful but not too successful,” Jackie Lamping, a Kappa Alpha Theta sorority sister of Ms. Holmes at Stanford, wrote in a letter to Judge Davila, who oversaw the trial.
Ms. Holmes said she believed that making herself the poster girl for women in tech put a huge target on her back. . . .

Elizabeth Holmes was not “successful” in anything, except in scamming investors, which is why she’s going to prison. She’s a female Bernie Madoff, and if it weren’t for her status as the erstwhile “poster girl for women in tech,” nobody would be trying to gin up sympathy for her, least of all the New York Times. The chief science officer at Theranos, Ian Gibbons, committed suicide; his widow blames Holmes. But please, tell me again how Holmes is the real victim here.



 

 

Category: New York Times

In The Mailbox: 05.08.23

Posted on | May 8, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Taylor Swift has thoughts on AI

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I’m Shocked That A Criminal Would Ignore A Sign! also, How Bud Light Ended Up With Dylan M. & A Controversy
EBL: Kentucky Derby Day, Coronation Kate, and The Last Ship
Twitchy: Dem Strategist Draws Venn Diagram Of Men With Guns & Men Afraid To Take The Subway, David Hogg Begs For Money Ahead Of Impending Harvard Graduation – It Doesn’t Go Well, and Claire McCaskill Preaches Heresy
Louder With Crowder: America’s oldest brewery counters Bud Light with new patriotic beer cans to benefit our veterans, New video destroys media narrative about Jordan Neely’s death, and Chris Pratt quotes Bible in response to his anti-Christian haters, also tells them what to stick up their butt
Vox Popoli: Past as Prelude, Better Than Trump, AI Disemploys the Left, Clown World’s Fake King, and Now Wait a Minute
Stoic Observations: On Parental Consent

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Deconstructing Miles Mathis
American Conservative: The Return of the King, also, The ‘Cis-’ Slur and the War on Normality
American Greatness: Black Grievance Politics Is Destroying Civilization, The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America, and Oklahoma Governor Axes PBS Funding Over ‘Really Problematic’ LGBTQ Content Targeting Children
American Power: Six Books About British Monarchs and Coronations, also, Demand for Property in Alys Beach, Planned Community on Florida’s Panhandle, Has Soared Over the Past Few Years
American Thinker: (Don’t) Take the F Train, Where Is the Missing Biden Witness, Gal Luft?, and Federal Government Burns the Whole House Down
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: On Karl Marx’s birthday, Cuba celebrates the failures and oppression of Marxism, Spain’s Meliá Hotels acquires three ‘historic’ hotels in Cuba, will also build new one in Havana, Cubans protesting in Caimanera, Guantanamo are hungry, and In communist Cuba, prostitution has become a method of survival
BattleSwarm: China’s Slacker City, also, Americans Reject Transexism Because It’s Anti-Reality
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab successfully launches two NASA hurricane monitoring cubesats, China’s X-37B copy lands successfully after 276 days in orbit, Sinuous ridge inside Martian canyon, and Webb takes infrared image of the disk of dust and debris surrounding Fomalhaut
Cafe Hayek: But Then Again, Washington DOES Endlessly Issue Commands, also,  Productivity Is Flat (Thus Explaining Flat Wages) While Productivity Is Rising (Thus Explaining Unjust Worker Exploitation)
CDR Salamander: From LCS To Missing Pay, The Wrong Mindset Remains
Chicago Boyz: Evil
Da Tech Guy: Five Interesting Things I Saw at Longhorn’s, What’s worse than the military recruiting crisis?, and The Question that Really Matters in Election 2024 wasn’t asked in the ABC Poll
Don Surber: Jeff Bezos’ Post Upset That Republican Does What Biden Did
First Street Journal: ‘Decarceration’ is deadly to black Americans, also, Danielle Outlaw will probably fire another good cop
Gates Of Vienna: What’s the Real Scoop on Nizhny Novgorod?, Santiago Abascal: A Message for CPAC Hungary, Viktor Orbán: “Progressive Foreign Policy Always Leads Us Into War”, and Hijab is Mandatory!
The Geller Report: Over 50% of Joe Biden’s Twitter Followers are Fake, According to Audit, Tucker’s First Speech After Fox: ‘Manufactured’ Media Lies Can End Democracy, and Biden Regime Still Largest Donor To Afghanistan As Taliban Persecutes Christians
Hogewash: The Hercules Galaxy Cluster, A National Anthem and a Restaurant, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and A Lenticular Seyfert Galaxy
Hollywood In Toto: The Tears of a Shock Jock Clown, Jaws 3-D Is Even Worse Without that Third Dimension, and Still Offers Haunting Look at Fame, Parkinson’s Disease
The Lid: RFK Jr.’s Popularity Reminds Us That Democrats Endorse Conspiracies, also, Why Are Hollywood Spin Doctors Helping DOE Spend Its $62 Billion Budget?
Legal Insurrection: Revisions in Jobs Report Show a Slower Jobs Market Than Portrayed by White House, Has the War on Coffee Begun?, “You may not be interested in culture war, but culture war is interested in you”, Highlight Reel About ‘Conspiracy Theory’ of Gas Stove Bans Shows How the Media Lies on Behalf of Democrats, and ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Block NYC Subway Cars On Tracks As Dems Stoke Racial Conflict Over Jordan Neely’s Death
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Obs…and just for you, also, Cantate Sunday
Outkick: New York Radio Hosts Accuse Tampa Bay Rays Of Cheating Following Series Win Over New York Yankees, C.J. Stroud Bizarrely Claims Ohio State Recruiting Quinn Ewers Was Disrespectful, Riley Gaines Urges Female Athletes To Refuse To Compete Against Trans Athletes, Jalen Rose Blames South Florida Weather For New York Knicks Embarrassing Loss To Miami Heat…Indoors, Opposing Jockeys Help Mage Co-Owner In Wheelchair Celebrate Derby Win In Touching Moment Of Sportsmanship, and Winter Olympian Funding Her Olympic Dreams With OnlyFans Goes Topless In Cabo
Power Line: Slow Joe’s Meds Are Not Working, The Sotomayor exception, Will Democrats Die on the Trans Hill?, and Communists Love Free Enterprise
Shark Tank: Scott & Roy Introduce Bill To Make Bureaucrats At-Will Employees
Shot In The Dark: Meanwhile In St. Anthony Park, also, This Is Blue America
STUMP: Video: U.S. Mortality Trends 2020-2022 part 6: Heart Disease and Cancer, also, Sunday Sumo: Preparing for the May Tournament
The Political Hat: Let’s See How Abolishing The Police Is Working Out In West Hollywood
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Reservists anticipating retirement eligibility notified that they have another three years to go, Senator Fights for Vetting of Veteran-Owned Businesses, Ukraine uses American Patriot Defense System to knock a Russian hypersonic missile out of the sky, Buzz Aldrin gets his very own star, and US soldiers partying in Colombia drank spiked drinks
Transterrestrial Musings: The Question On Climate, From Nashville To San Bernardino, The Coronation, and The Trans Bubble
Victory Girls: Hillary Clinton Wants “Enforceable Code Of Ethics” For Supreme Court, Comer Claims To Have Biden Family Evidence, and Marcotte Irony – Republican Women Are Self-Loathing
Volokh Conspiracy: Will There Finally be Some Development on the Land Condemned in Kelo v. City of New London?, also, “Citizen Non-Cooperation and Police Non-Intervention as Causes of Justice Failure and Crime”
Watts Up With That: New York Gas Stove Ban – Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?, FERC commissioners tell senators of major grid reliability challenges, with some blaming markets, and California’s Retail Electricity Price Highest in the Continental U.S. & More than Double the Western U.S. Average Price
Weasel Zippers: Biden Thinks He’s Smarter Than You, “We Can’t Let Obama” Win Again, NYC Catholic Church Displays “God Is Trans” Exhibit, House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries Claims Biden Has Done An “Incredible Job” On Economy, and House Dem Chair Pete Aguilar Blames Border Surge On “Climate Change”
The Federalist: Like Bud Light, The U.S. Navy Steps On A Rake With Drag Influencers, Elon Musk Couldn’t Fix Twitter Even If He Wanted To, Washington’s Ban On Popular Rifles Doesn’t Hold Up Under Any Level Of Scrutiny, Making Jordan Neely The New George Floyd Is The Next Step In The Left’s War On America, How Can Media Identify ‘White Supremacy’ In Hispanic Shooter But Not Trans Murderer’s Anti-Christian Hate?, and Not Even Junk Polls Can Hide The Public’s Cratering Trust In Media
Mark Steyn: Royal Pain – King Charles III and the Agony of Succession, Tal Bachman – Selves in the Balance, and Of Rain and Wrecks

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Mauricio Garcia, Incel

Posted on | May 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Mauricio Garcia, Incel

When I wrote about the Allen outlet mall shooting yesterday, I noted that different mug shots of gunman were circulating via Twitter, but I wasn’t sure they were authentic. Turns out my doubts were justified. Somebody pointed out that the birthdate didn’t match, and so the Mauricio Garcia whose photo went viral Sunday was not the outlet mall shooter. The photo at top is the shooter, and it comes from a Russian-based website where Mauricio Garcia posted frequently. Jessica McBride at Heavy.com has all the details, including the fact that Garcia was an “incel” who admired Elliot Rodger. Of course, he also posted neo-Nazi stuff, which everyone in the mainstream media is feasting on, without evidently pausing to think: “What does that have to do with shooting people at a shopping mall?” If Garcia had attacked a synagogue, OK, yeah, we could see the neo-Nazi thing as an obvious motive, but just randomly shooting people at the mall? What’s so neo-Nazi about that?

And, of course, there’s the fact that Mauricio Garcia doesn’t exactly look like Heinrich Himmler’s ideal Aryan ubermensch. Garcia was a “white supremacist” in the same sense that Dylan Mulvaney is a “woman.” That is to say, it’s an identity chosen in the manner of someone choosing a cosplay character, or stealing someone else’s profile photo for a “catfishing” scheme, and so far I’ve seen zero evidence that Garcia ever engaged in any IRL association with other “white supremacists.” It was part of an online persona with no real-life relevance. What was much more relevant was that he was a chronically underemployed 30-something loser staying in a Budget Inn after he apparently got kicked out of his parents’ house, with no known friends, no romantic prospects and nothing better to do with his time than to plot an entirely senseless mass murder spree. Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

 

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