Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Ruby Taverner, 22, and while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Ruby is dead. Ruby began life as a male named Martin Taverner, but it’s the 21st century and we’re all supposed to pretend that this is perfectly normal. But two other people are now dead, including Ruby’s “boyfriend,” who was actually a woman named Amber but called herself “Ray.” Everything in this story is crazy:

Police say that a transgender woman was found shot to death after she shot and killed her transgender boyfriend and her twin brother.
The lethal incident unfolded on Sunday morning at about 3:30 a.m. at an apartment in Independence Township, Michigan.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said they called to the apartment over a report of shots being fired. When they arrived they found two victims shot to death, Ray Muscat, a 26-year-old transgender man, and 22-year-old Bishop Taverner. Muscat was previously known as Amber Muscat.
Neighbors told WDIV-TV that they heard a staggering number of shots coming from the apartment.
They identified 22-year-old Ruby Taverner as a suspect in the murders since she lived at the apartment, was in a romantic relationship with Muscat, and was the twin to Bishop Taverner. Ruby was previously known as Martin Taverner.
They warned at the time that Taverner was “armed and dangerous.”
One day later, they found Taverner dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Taverner’s body was found in a wooded area near the apartment house.
Investigators said that Taverner had three registered handguns and that one had been purchased just before the shooting.
WDIV also reported that police had previously gone to the apartment for several mental health and wellness checks prior to the lethal shooting. . . .
“This tragic situation has now been brought to a close, and our investigators will now pivot to see if we can answer the question on everyone’s mind — why,” Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.

You can save the taxpayers some money, sheriff, because I’ve got your answer here: Crazy People Are Dangerous. Case closed.

Category: Crime, Michigan

UPDATE: Vicky Sue White Has Died

Posted on | May 10, 2022 | Comments Off on UPDATE: Vicky Sue White Has Died

After last night’s post (“Fugitive Murder Suspect Caught; Woman Who Helped Him Escape Shoots Herself”), here’s the latest on the case:

Former Alabama corrections officer Vicky White has died from injuries after she and escaped inmate Casey White were arrested in Indiana earlier Monday, Sheriff Dave Wedding of Vanderburgh County told CNN.
She was hospitalized earlier with self-inflicted gunshot wounds after being taken into custody following a car chase in Evansville, Indiana, US Marshals previously told CNN. . . .
Before the chase ensued, officers conducting surveillance spotted Vicky White exiting a hotel with a wig on, according to US Marshal Matt Keely. Then, she and Casey White got into a car and drove away.
Authorities continued to watch them until a vehicle pursuit began, ending when a US Marshals task force member drove a vehicle into the Cadillac the pair were in. The car wrecked and rolled over, [Keely] said. Casey White was driving the car, according to the US Marshals, though Wedding had earlier told reporters Vicky White was the driver.
Officers were able to remove the inmate from the wrecked car, but Vicky White was pinned inside with a gunshot wound to her head, Keely said. . . .
The pair’s capture brought to a close an 11-day manhunt that gained widespread national attention and saw hundreds of tips flood in from all corners of the country, including one that ultimately led to the location and arrest of the fugitives.
That tip came Sunday night, Singleton said.
Wedding said the duo were believed to have been in Evansville since May 3. “It’s hard to believe they’ve been here that many days, but we’re lucky that we stumbled upon them today,” he said.
Singleton said Casey White, 38, will be brought back to Alabama. The inmate faces previous murder charges. Vicky White, 56, was first charged with permitting or facilitating escape in the first degree and was later facing additional forgery and identity theft charges.
“He will be in a cell by himself,” Singleton said. “He will stay in handcuffs and shackles while he’s in that cell and if he wants to sue me for violating his civil rights, so be it. He’s not getting out of this jail again. I’ll assure you that.”

“Well, I’m all broken up about that man’s rights,” and as for the deceased jailer-turned-criminal, let’s not hear any mourning over her, either. We’re never going to silence all the “social justice” crowd’s chatter about “mass incarceration” if we exhibit any sympathy for white criminals.

Category: Alabama, Crime, Indiana

In The Mailbox: 05.09.22

Posted on | May 10, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The state of American public education, 2022

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Where Would We Be Without Researchers?
EBL: Democrats Send Out Antifa, also, Bill Kristol Goes Full Democrat
Twitchy: MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace Blames Ukraine Invasion On January 6, also, WaPo Reporters Applaud Themselves For Award-Winning 1/6 Coverage
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Blasts Twitter’s “Obvious” Left-Wing Bias, also, Teacher Put On Leave Following Video Where She Brags About Inappropriate Conversations With Students
Vox Popoli: The Importance Of Bedsheets, Black Doctor Who, and The Revolt Against Big Evangelical

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Traditional Man Is Christian
American Conservative: The President Can Terminate Treaties Alone
American Greatness: A Heartland Battle For The GOP’s Soul, also, DOJ Threatens Oath Keepers With Life In Prison
American Power: Will The Roe v. Wade Leak Upend Orange County Midterms? also, Twitter, SCOTUS, & The Progressive Revolution
American Thinker: Why Would Rural Americans Vote For Those Who Hate Them? also, The Roe Demonstrators – Where Did They Get That Idea?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Havana’s Hotel Saratoga Explosion Death Toll Hits 32 With 19 Others Still Missing, also, Cuba Sending 500 More Slave Doctors To Mexico & More Migrants To The U.S.
BattleSwarm: Update – 6.8×51 Yes, TVCM No, also, Anti-CRT Candidates Stomp Leftists In Texas School Board Elections
Behind The Black: Pushback – Lawsuit Forces RI To Let Oral Surgeon Reopen Practice, Red China Launches Tianzhou Freighter To Space Station, and Curiosity Climbing Out Of Gordon Notch Hollow
Cafe Hayek: Offending A Defender Of The Laughable “1619 Project”, also, No Serious Person Accepts Protectionism’s Implications
CDR Salamander: A Victory Day
Da Tech Guy: No Future For Mothers Day For The Left, The Left Won’t Like The New Rules On Protests & Molotov Cocktails, and Report From Louisiana – Soaring Costs
Don Surber: MSNBC Chucks Todd, PR Firm Goes From Woke To Nope, and More Proof Abortion Is A Loser For Democrats
First Street Journal: Unhinged Abortion Supporters Protested In Churches Sunday, also, People Who Understand Foreign Policy Say The Administration Needs To Shut Up About Ukraine
Gates Of Vienna: The Anti-Narrative On Ukraine, The Wild One Comes To Duisburg, and Life After The Great Reset
The Geller Report: True The Vote Announces They’re Releasing All The Addresses Of All The Ballot Trafficking Stash Houses, also, Conservatives Sweep Texas School Board Elections – CRT & Mask Mandates Hardest Hit
Hogewash: Sonification Of A Couple Of Black Holes, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Whoda Thunk It?
Hollywood In Toto: Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Worth The Hype, Is Hollywood Reaching The Final Stages Of Cancel Culture? and Full Frontal Gives Thumbs Up to Protest At Justices’ Homes
The Lid: Chuck Todd’s Daily MSNBC Show Exiled To Streaming Service, also, Biden’s DGB More Frightening & Dangerous Than We Originally Thought
Legal Insurrection: Justice Thomas – “We Can’t Be An Institution That Can Be Bullied”, Syracuse U. Students Upset About “Fatphobic” Campus, and The Birth Of Abortion Tourism
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday Scribbles, also, A Bit Of American Military History
Outkick: Days After Mask Virtue-Signaling, Warriors Coach Will Miss Game 4 Thanks To Corona-chan, Woke Illustrated Releases WNBA Swimsuit Model Photos, and Chris Paul Yells “I’ll See You Later” After Mavs Fan Messes With His Family
Power Line: Antifa Attacks Wisconsin Pro-Life Office, Liberals Are Evil, and Trust “The Science” They Say
Shark Tank: Webster Campaign Accused Of Dirty Tricks To Knock Loomer Out Of CD-11 Race
Shot In The Dark: Russia & Ukraine, The Drawing Board, and Democracy Dies In Democracy
This Ain’t Hell: Nurses Sentenced After Hidden Camera Showed Vet Gasping For Breath, Crying For Help, Roe v. Wade Hysterics Now Involving The Military, and Illinois Veterans Home COVID Audit Faults IDPH
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden’s Absurd “Cut The Deficit” Claim, also, Statins
Victory Girls: Schmidt Unleashes Bizarre, Spiteful Twitter Rant, also, Media Realizes The Baby Formula Shortage Is Real
Volokh Conspiracy: WaPo Reports On More SCOTUS Leaks
Watts Up With That: The Coldest April In The Satellite Record Over The Pacific Northwest, also, Lights Out – The CLCPA & New York’s Energy Future
Weasel Zippers: A Decade After His Death, NYT Cruelly Outs Mayor Ed Koch As Gay, also, Georgetown Law Prof Endorses Mob Violence Against SCOTUS
The Federalist: Spygate Judge Tries To Protect Hillary With Latest Pre-Trial Rulings, Indiana GOP Pawned Social Conservatism For Economic Growth & Got Neither, and Biden’s New Press Secretary Is A “Stolen Elections” Conspiracy Theorist
Mark Steyn: Love & War – Jimmy Stewart And Strategic Air Command, The Dance Of Time, and “I’ll Never Smile Again”

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Category: Linkagery

Fugitive Murder Suspect Caught; Woman Who Helped Him Escape Shoots Herself

Posted on | May 9, 2022 | Comments Off on Fugitive Murder Suspect Caught; Woman Who Helped Him Escape Shoots Herself

Updating last week’s report (“Some Ladies Love the Bad Boys,” May 4) about the case of Alabama murder suspect Casey White, who escaped jail with the assistance of jail administrator Vicky Sue White:

A former Alabama jail official and the murder suspect she is accused of helping escape from custody were apprehended Monday in Indiana after more than a week on the run, law enforcement officials said.
The two fugitives were caught in Evansville, Indiana, after U.S. Marshals pursued their vehicle and then crashed into it, authorities said. Casey White, 38, surrendered and Vicky White, 56, shot herself, and was taken to a hospital, authorities said.
“This has ended a very long and stressful and challenging week and a half. It ended the way that we knew it would. They are in custody,” Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton of Alabama said.
The arrest of the pair, who are not related, ended a nationwide manhunt that began April 29 when Vicky White, the assistant director of corrections for the jail in Lauderdale County, allegedly helped engineer the escape of Casey White, who was awaiting trial in a capital murder case. Vicky White had told co-workers she was taking the inmate from the jail for a mental health evaluation at the courthouse, but the two instead fled the area.
The car they took off in was later found abandoned in Tennessee, but there was no trace of the pair until U.S. Marshals received a tip Sunday that surveillance photos from an Evansville car wash showed a man who closely resembled Casey White exiting a 2006 Ford F-150 pickup truck, the Marshals Service said.
On Monday, officials learned that the pair was spotted near the sheriff’s office, said Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding in Indiana. As officers arrived, the pair fled in a vehicle and led police on a pursuit, he said. U.S. Marshals collided with them “to try to end the pursuit,” he said. Casey White was injured, not too seriously, in the ensuing crash and Vicky White then shot herself, causing “very serious” injuries, he said.

Another crime solved by video surveillance. What do you think caused the complaints about “mass incarceration” that inspired the demand for “criminal justice reform” in recent years? Don’t you suppose that a major factor is because technology — including widespread video surveillance — has made it more difficult for perpetrators to get away with their crimes? Back in the day, fugitive criminals might evade capture for years, but now video cameras are everywhere, and the same technology that helped authorities apprehend Casey White also helps police solve robberies and murders. And let’s face it, criminals can’t expect a jury to acquit them on the basis of some phony alibi when there is surveillance video proving their guilt. Nowadays, when a store gets robbed, police don’t just offer a description of the robbers, but instead give the media video of the crime as it happened, and next thing you know there’s a call to the Crime Stoppers hotline identifying the perps — whoosh! — a one-way ticket to state prison. Arresting and convicting criminals is so much easier now that the Party of Crime (i.e., Democrats) had to cook up some kind of excuse to help keep their voters out of prison, so “criminal justice reform” became a slogan, and George Soros poured millions of dollars into electing pro-crime politicians like Chesa Boudin, George Gascón, Kim Foxx and Larry Krasner as district attorneys, enacting turn-’em-loose policies to ensure that Democrat voters (i.e., criminals) don’t go to jail.

Excuse that long digression, but it’s not often I get such a perfect occasion to explain what’s actually happening to our criminal justice system.

Category: Alabama, Crime, Indiana

Rule 5 Sunday: Maid In Latex

Posted on | May 9, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Maid In Latex

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No, honey, I think the kitchen looks just fine. Just kick back and relax…

I have no idea who the young lady is or who she’s cosplaying. If she’s cosplaying.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1708, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Gas Prices Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA Candidates Win, Stock Show Newsreader Babes, Cinco de Mayo, May The 4th Be With You, Erika Pryer, Minx, The Offer, The Survivor, and Biden’s DGB Czarina

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Krista Allen, Another Plan to Rebuild Striper Population, There Once Was a Maid of Nantucket, Fish Pic Friday, Menn in the Box, Vance Advances, Ortagus Out, Recession Looms, Your Wednesday Wetness, Retired Race Car Driver Lightens Load, Biden Divin’, Inflation Continues and So On, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, In Case You Hadn’t Heard and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Silhouettes

Posted on | May 8, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Silhouettes

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The draft is underway in Pete’s league for the 1970 season, and so far things are going well for the Senators: we picked up outfielder Del Unser, pitcher Juan Marichal, and closer Moe Drabowsky, among other good players, so I think we’re going to actually have a better team than last year.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

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Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
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SJW Tumblrinas: The Root of All Evil
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL

Back Where She Belongs
The DaleyGator
The First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: RIP Klaus Schulze
A View From The Beach
EBL

Russian Generals Keep Getting Killed
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.02.22
Proof Positive
EBL
357 Magnum

Worst Twitter ‘Hot Take’ Ever?
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.04.22 (Morning Edition)
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A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Some Ladies Love the Bad Boys
EBL

The Endless Grift of ‘Literally Who?’
BattleSwarm Blog
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.04.22 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Who Is Charlie Warzel and Why Do I Feel This Urge to Give Him a Brutal Fisking?
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.05.22
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Aspiring Rapper Update: Misdemeanor Charges for Homeless Lunatic in L.A.
EBL

“If You Lack a Uterus, You Cannot Speak”
EBL

An Administrative Note
EBL

‘Democrats Like to Pretend …’

Posted on | May 7, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Democrats Like to Pretend …’

“. . . that it’s always 1963, because that’s the last time they can remember being the good guys,” says Professor Glenn Reynolds.

It’s not just black Republicans like Wesley Hunt who are dunking on the idiot Swalwell, who apparently has not considered the irony that the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court is Clarence Thomas, a black South Carolina native whose wife is white. Swalwell represents the 15th District of California, which is only 6.1% black, whereas South Carolina — represented in the Senate by two Republicans and in the House by six Republicans and two Democrats — is 24.8% black. The prejudices upon which the Democratic Party operates have somewhat changed since 1963, but one thing has not changed, namely the common belief of Democrats that they are The Party of Moral Virtue, engaged in a life-or-death struggle for the survival of “Our Democracy.”

My point is that, contrary to what is commonly said, there never was really a Good Old Days in which Democrats were the party of common sense, before they went drifting leftward. Go back and consider the idiocy of William Jennings Bryant’s quixotic crusade for “free coinage of silver,” or the various “progressive” whims of Woodrow Wilson, including his own quixotic crusade for the League of Nations. Even if Republicans of that era had some bad policy ideas, were Democrats a bastion of “common sense”? And then you dogtrot forward through history, with the various failed schemes of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and on through the unfortunate presidency of Harry Truman (who is ridiculously overrated by historians), the futile liberalism of Adlai Stevenson, the endless crises of JFK’s presidency and utter catstrophe of LBJ — where do we locate the Good Old Days of “common sense” Democrats?

Trust me, I’m the guy who wrote the book — well, I co-wrote it, anyway — demonstrating that the Democratic Party was rotten from the start, when Jefferson struck his deal with Aaron Burr and Tammany Hall to form the national party in opposition to John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists. Despite my own sympathies for the Jeffersonian ideal, and my opposition to the Adams/Hamilton axis representing northeastern hegemony and centralization of power in the early Union, nevertheless the seeds of corruption were present from the conception of what eventually became the Democratic Party.

The reason why most people are unaware of this history is simply because Democrats have such overwhelming control of the education system and the media, so that from their earliest school lessons onward, most Americans are steeped in Democratic Party propaganda that celebrates the Great Myth of The Party of Moral Virtue. Some of the worst disasters inflicted on America by the Democrats came at the very apex of their power and prestige (and “common sense” reputation), as anyone who has studied the 1960s must understand. Go read David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, if you want to get a glimpse of what went wrong with “The New Frontier” and “The Great Society.” It must be understood that the JFK/LBJ debacles, including failure in Vietnam, were a delayed consequence of mistakes made during the FDR/Truman era. And we had minor sequels to that episode in the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. The Great Myth that inspires the hubris of Democrats is apparent in so many things, of which Eric Swalwell’s ridiculous tweet is just one tiny star in a vast constellation of moral arrogance.

It is easy to laugh at a clown like Eric Swalwell, until you pause to consider that we may be on the brink of nuclear war with Russia, while the presidency is occupied by a notorious fool who wasn’t qualified for the office even before he began his descent into incoherent senility.

Category: Democrats

In The Mailbox: 05.07.22 Special Weekend Edition

Posted on | May 7, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.22 Special Weekend Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not going to lie, the main reason I’m doing this is so my Feedly doesn’t get jammed up with almost a week’s worth of posts when I get around to doing Monday’s posts…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.