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In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 1, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Trump is on the Iranian Regime’s Hit List, Tom Sizemore…RIP?, and Tradwife Rule 5
Twitchy: Dana Loesch Whups Laura Loomer In Heated Exchange Over DeSantis, also, Juddlegum Upset He And David Hogg Tagged With Community Notes 
Louder With Crowder: Awesome 9-year-old girl wrecks her woke school board for lying about ‘no politics in schools’, Joe Biden claims that even though he’s a white boy “he’s not stupid” – we beg to differ, Watch as this chick rage-quits a podcast because a dude refuses to sleep with a trans (sigh) ‘woman’, and Thug picks wrong cancer-stricken grandma to carjack, winds up in ambulance as grandma goes to chemo
Vox Popoli: They Haven’t Learned, Darker than the Dark Lord, Restoring the Mandate of Heaven, and No Truth, No Taste

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Florida’s ‘Orban’ Renewal Project
American Greatness: Arizona Sheriff: Migrants Tell Us They Crossed the Border Illegally ‘Because Joe Biden Said We Could’, ‘Greater Idaho’ Movement to Absorb Oregon Counties Gaining Traction, and Five Ways the Trainwreck Revealed the Trainwreck
American Power: What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Aims to Chart New Course for Chip Industry, and The War Is Right And Just. But Is It Prudent?
American Thinker: The U.S. Government Created the Vaccine, Did It Also Create the Virus?, Russian Sanctions Have Proved as Useless as COVID Vaccines, and Are You Freer than You Were Two Years Ago?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mask Failure News
Babalu Blog: U.S. embassy’s cultural collaborations with Castro dictatorship draws ire of Cuban activists, Cuban dictatorship repairs Hotel Saratoga, but not the surrounding homes destroyed by its explosion, Cuban dictatorship earns $545 million from cigar sales in Europe and China, and Reports from Cuba: Black market sugar in Cuba now approaching $8.30 a pound
BattleSwarm: Dear Chinese Workers in 2023: Sucks To Be You, also, Remembering the Battle of Medina Ridge
Behind The Black: The shift away from government schools, at all levels, accelerates, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches 21 second generation Starlink satellites, Ispace provides update on its Hakuto-R1 lunar lander on the way to the Moon, NASA names solar scientist as its new science head,  and Today’s blacklisted American: University tells student it will block her speech, even off campus and on her private time
CDR Salamander: One Year in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Big Pixels
Chicago Boyz: The Hard “Nope”
Da Tech Guy: “Roald the Rotten” Dahl an unlikely hero in battle against wokism, Misconceptions Under the Fedora, Jim Abourezk: A rare bird, and Five Three Liners Under the Fedora
Don Surber: How Elon Musk Survives
First Street Journal: Someone needs to check the water supply in Loudoun County, also, Secular liberalism has infected religion, and liberal religion has infected secular politics
Gates Of Vienna: Migrants Lost in the Briny Deep Off Calabria, Culture-Enriching Looters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Semantic Marxism, and We Are All Antifa!
The Geller Report:  MUST WATCH TUCKER ON THE COVID CHINESE LAB LEAK, also, Brazil Allows Iranian Warships to Dock in Rio Despite US Pressure
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tonight’s Sky: March, 2023, and Quote of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Can’t-Miss Gimmick in Unseen (Mostly) Hits the Mark, Tom Cruise Gives Master Class in Humility at PGA Awards, and Liam Neeson Drops the Action, Misses the Mark in Marlowe
The Lid: Teaching Hate: Muslim Virginia School Board Member Calls U.S. Victory in WWII ‘Evil’, also, Natural Immunity Vs. Covid Vax, Government Lied Again
Legal Insurrection: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection, the First One Term Mayor in 40 Years, “The big lie of the diversity, equity, and inclusion industry is that we are a systemically racist country”, White Student Suing Historically Black Howard University for Alleged Racial Discrimination, Transportation IG Investigating Buttigieg Using Govt Planes for Personal Use, and Sorry, Mayor Pete – Even WaPo Admits Trump’s Regulation Rollback Didn’t Cause Ohio Train Derailment
Nebraska Energy Observer: As if 
Outkick: Cheerleader Goes Solo After Team Quits Ahead Of States, Ex-Titans OT Taylor Lewan Posts Photo of Team Dumping His Stuff Off At His Home Door, Shannon Sharpe Rips Into Brandon Miller For ‘Senseless’ Pregame Pat-Down Intro, TLIF: Leslie Manookian Pressures NFL, NFLPA On Young Athletes Suffering Medical Emergencies, and Marcus Spears Attacks Deion Sanders’ Two-Parent QB Recruiting Comments: ‘Sh*t Ain’t Funny’
Power Line: I Offer Our Governor a Wager, Clapper’s claptrap: The video, and EV Drivers Admit It: Charging Can Be a ‘Logistical Nightmare’
Protein Wisdom Reborn:
Shark Tank: Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) Flaunts His Ignorance
Shot In The Dark: So Many Questions, also, Paranoid!!!
The Political Hat: University Of Chicago: Everyone Encouraged To Apply (Except For White And Asian Men)
This Ain’t Hell: Are you a parent that opposes keeping secrets about your kids from you? Christo-fascist!, Ivan looking at Javelins, US Air Force to reverse adverse actions related to COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, Reparations panel: 5 million per qualified Black Individual, and Navy Touts All Female Flyover
Transterrestrial Musings: Retconning Heller, The Bulwark, BIden’s Loan Forgiveness, and Scott Adams
Victory Girls: Mayorkas Impeachment: Will The House GOP Get The Votes?, also, JK Rowling: The Witch Trials, The Pyre And The Caprice Of Fates
Volokh Conspiracy: Thoughts on Today’s Supreme Court Student Loan Forgiveness Oral Arguments, also, A group autopsy of the Supreme Court’s oral argument on section 230
Watts Up With That: Polar Wildlife Report reveals Arctic and Antarctic animals were thriving in 2022, Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero, and Tsunami Of Green Bans: German Economics Minister Plans End Of Gas, Oil Heating Beginning 2024!
Weasel Zippers:  DeSantis Roasts Chicago Dems Before Mayoral Primary: “They’re All Trying To Outwoke Each Other”, Report: Putin Paying Palestinians To Fight In Ukraine, and Buttigieg: It’d Be Too “Disruptive” If Biden Visited Toxic Train Disaster In East Palestine
The Federalist: Helping Ukraine Defend Itself Must Not Detract From Deterring Red China, Georgia Committee Passes Bill To Stop Counties From Accepting ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’ Ahead Of 2024 Elections, Supreme Court’s Student Loan Forgiveness Ruling Could Be Bigger Than Biden’s $400 Billion Bailout, Fauci And EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak Silenced Lab Leak ‘Conspiracy Theory.’ Congress Shouldn’t Let Them Forget It, and American College Of OB-GYNs Bans Pro-Life Doctors From Conference After They Show Up
Mark Steyn: Who’s the Extremist?, also, The Full Jabba Jabba

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In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Playing catchup today since I didn’t get home to Tonopah until around 9 PM last night.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

“SF Chronicle declares not using ‘Latinx’ is transphobic.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Real Roots Of The Financial Crisis
EBL: Putin’s Ukraine War 1st Anniversary, Scott Adams and Dilbert Get Cancelled, and Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech of 1860
Twitchy: Siraj Hashmi Busts Jennifer Rubin For Sad DeSantis Swipe, also, Not A Good Look – Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Fundraising In Hollywood
Louder With Crowder: 11-year-old shocks school board reading from the “smut” available in his school library, also, Nancy Pelosi gets heckled at a cafe with tough questions you’d think a journalist would ask her
Vox Popoli: Rare and Expensive, Brer Zelensky, Revisit Your Assumptions, and Convergence Literally Kills
Gab News: What Martyrdom In The West Looks Like

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Snowy Lent Sunday
American Conservative: Ukraine Is Afghanistan All Over Again, The Long March Through the Museums, and Anglican Vicar Fired For Christian Sermon Loses Court Case
American Greatness: Actor Woody Harrelson Faces Backlash After Joking on SNL About Big Pharma Cartel Pushing Drugs, also, Government Report Concludes Lab Leak to be Most Likely Coronavirus Origin Theory
American Thinker: And Just Like That, Natural Immunity is No Longer a Conspiracy Theory, also, The Solution to Ballot Fraud
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuba tangled in darkness, Cuban mothers forced to donate breast milk for starving infants as food shortages worsen in Cuba, and Cuban dictatorship throws hissy fit over cancellation of hundreds of its fake Facebook accounts
BattleSwarm: The Tank Museum on The Tanks Going To Ukraine, also, The Tank Isn’t Obsolete, Russia Is Just Using Them Stupidly
Behind The Black: IBEX in safe mode, Astroscale raises $76 million in private investment capital from Mitsubishi, space tourist Maezawa, and others, Manned Endeavour launch tonight on Falcon 9 scrubbed at T-2:12, and Drilling success for Curiosity in the marker layer?
Cafe Hayek: More Than Any Other, This Understanding Is the Distinguishing Feature of True Liberalism, also, The Glories of Globalization
Chicago Boyz: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, as Viewed From the Early 1950s
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Administration in One Paragraph, The Navy just doesn’t understand SWOs, and Dating Apps and Bigotry
Don Surber: The Left Proves Dilbert’s Point, also, The National Divorce Has Begun
First Street Journal: Lies catch up to you, also, You can never solve a problem unless you admit what the problem is, and Philly’s Democrats won’t do that
Gates Of Vienna: When Dismemberment is a Family Affair, Not-So-Innocent Oseghale Gets Life in Prison, The Descent into Anarcho-Tyranny, and Let Them Come to Berlin
The Geller Report: Katie Hobbs, the Governor of Arizona, Allegedly Accepted Bribes From the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, also, Biden Shoveled $36 Billion In Taxpayer Funds To Bail Out Teamsters For Mismanaged Pensions
Hogewash: First, Willy Wonka, Now, James Bond, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, NGC 3370, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why ‘SNL,’ Late Night Won’t Touch Biden, Harris and Mayor Pete, Woody Harrelson Shreds Big Pharma, the Media, ‘SNL’ (And Its Audience), and A (Mostly) Great Week for Free Speech
The Lid: Judge Orders District To Pay $100K In Legal Fees After Barring Moms Reading District Approved Porn Books At Board Meeting, also, Pistol Pete Misfires Again
Legal Insurrection: Media Pounces After Florida Death Row Inmate Uses Final Words to Blast Ron DeSantis, Democratic Party of Nevada in Chaos Two Years After Bernie Sanders Supporters Took Over, Former Reuters Science Writer Slams Climate Hysteria Promoted by Today’s Media, University of Idaho Murder Suspect ‘Could Face Firing Squad Under Proposed Law if Convicted’, and Oversight Committee Chairman Comer Requests to Interview Seven Southern Border Chief Patrol Agents
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Invocabit: First Sunday in Lent, and Diversity Education is Destroying Education
Outkick: Fake Boxer Jake Paul Handed First Career Loss By Tommy Fury Via Split-Decision, Lindsay Brewer Hits The Beach In Hawaii Before Her First Race Of The Season, Olivia Dunne Was Back In Action And Her Sister Lost Her Mind, Shaquille O’Neal Hits Griddy, Shuts Down LSU Basketball Star After Pulling Up To Alma Mater For Daughter’s Recruiting Visit, and Charles Barkley Rips NBA Load Management Problem: ‘People Working In The Steel Mill Are Tired Too’
Power Line: Our Criminal Justice System Is a Farce, The Fetterman Question, A confederacy of louts, and From Malaise to Malice
Protein Wisdom Reborn: When Will We Learn?, also, Hey, longtime pw readers
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Reintroduces Financial Freedom Legislation
Shot In The Dark: Unexpectedly, also, Inconvenient Energy-Dense Fact
The Political Hat: Fighting Wokeness With Nondiscrimination In West Virginia
This Ain’t Hell: Foreign adversaries soon to be unable to purchase Virginian agricultural land, Monkeypox Fail? Release the Super Pigs!, VA Employees with criminal history related to drugs, Northern California diner halts veteran group’s use of room, and Mikey ticks off Ted Cruz. This should be fun
Transterrestrial Musings: The Covid Lab Leak
Victory Girls: “Christo-Fascist” Parents Deserve To Be In The Dark, also, 1619 Project Creator- Chinese Not Oppressed By Mao
Volokh Conspiracy: How powerful are AR rifles?, also, Higher Education “Reform” in Florida
Watts Up With That: British Net Zero Insanity is the Cause of Winter Food Shortages, Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas, and How FERC can protect the grid from wind and solar
Weasel Zippers: Jill Biden Says Joe “Intends To Run” For Re-election, Biden National Security Advisor “Can’t Confirm Or Deny” Intel Saying COVID Began As Chinese Lab Leak, Joy Behar: East Palestine Got What They Deserved Because They Voted For Trump, Elon Musk: Media, Education System Are “Racist Against Whites And Asians”, and Chicago Dem Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Racism For Her Failing Re-election Campaign
The Federalist: In A Just World, Cocaine Bear Would Sweep The Oscars, How A Pregnancy Center Saved Me From Homelessness, Addiction, And Despair, Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls, and That Warren Burger Quote Gun Grabbers Love Is Ahistorical — Not To Mention Sort Of Fake
Mark Steyn: Hope in Hell: Don Ameche, Ernst Lubitsch and Heaven Can Wait, Where Do You Go to, My Lovely?, The Mark Steyn Show – live Monday to Thur …okay, Wednesday, at least, and Tal Bachman: Should Zoos Exist?

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If Fetterman Is Brain Dead, Maybe They Should Hook Him Up to Jumper Cables?

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

Before I get to the context of the headline, first the news:

The office Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., released an update on Monday regarding his health after the Democratic Senator checked himself into a hospital for clinical depression earlier this month.
Fetterman’s communications director Joe Calvello said the Democratic senator was “doing well” and working with doctors as he “remains on the path to recovery.”
“He is visiting with staff and family daily, and his staff are keeping him updated on Senate business and news,” Calvello said in a statement.

So they say, but when was the last time they allowed anyone to actually see Fetterman? He has been unable to perform his Senate duties for weeks, so that Pennsylvanians effectively have half the Senate representation to which they are entitled. Pennsylvanians are starting to notice this, and one county GOP chairman took to Facebook on Monday to demand that Fetterman make a public appearance:

Because of the now confirmed lies that were told during the 2022 general election regarding the health of Senator John Fetterman, as well as the threats made against a journalist who interviewed him, the Washington County Republican Party refuses to take assurances from the Office of the Senator or Democrat operatives that Fetterman is able to carry out his duties as Senator. As such, we call upon Senator Fetterman to appear on camera to show us he is alive and well, and if he is unable to do so, we call upon our elected Representatives in Washington, Senator Casey and Congressman Reschenthaler, to intervene immediately.
Ultimately, if Fetterman is unable or unwilling to carry out his duties as a United States Senator, then we ask for his resignation and call for a special election to be held this year; no more lies or games.

What may have provoked this controversy was a weekend tweet from conservative talk-radio host John Cardillo:

Being told that Fetterman is essentially brain dead and it’s being hidden because keeping him in office until August 18th avoids a special election which Republicans would most certainly win.
This must be investigated.

A U.S. Senator is “essentially brain dead“?

Certainly this would be newsworthy, if true, and given that the public hasn’t actually seen Fetterman in weeks, how do we know if it’s true or not? Therefore, the burden is on Democrats to disprove this claim, and a mere statement claiming that Fetterman “remains on the path to recovery” won’t suffice. If, as his spokesman claims, Fetterman “is visiting with staff and family daily,” staying “updated on Senate business,” etc., then shouldn’t he able to make a brief public appearance, say a few words in front of the cameras, just to reassure Pennsylvanians that he is healthy? What are Democrats trying to hide?

The brilliance of Cardillo’s tweet about Fetterman being “brain dead” is that its very outrageousness requires a response. The wilder the rumor, the easier it should be to disprove, right? And so if Democrats fail to disprove it, people will naturally start to suspect maybe it is true.

This reminded me of one of the late Republican operative Lee Atwater’s most legendary moves. In 1980, Democratic state Sen. Tom Turnipseed ran for a South Carolina congressional seat, challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Floyd Spence. In media interviews, Turnipseed had previously disclosed getting electroshock treatments for depression when he was teenager. Working for the Spence campaign, Atwater was accused of “planting” questions with reporters about this, and when confronted with the accusation, Atwater’s reply was that he would not respond to allegations made by someone who had been “hooked up to jumper cables.” Some people were outraged by this comment, but it was a memorable sound bite — the phrase stuck in people’s minds — and Atwater kept repeating it until, on Election Day, Spence beat Turnipseed by a double-digit margin, 56%-44%. This is how you win elections.

Calling Fetterman “brain dead” may be an exaggeration, but the phrase is memorable, and if, as Fetterman’s spokesman claims, the Senator is “on the path to recovery,” why shouldn’t they be willing to demonstrate this by having Fetterman appear at a press conference? Also, while we’re asking questions, perhaps Fetterman’s spokesman can explain why the Senator’s wife took their kids and left the country.



 

 

Category: Democrats, Pennsylvania, Scandal, Senate

WOW: Left-Wing Narrative on Train Wreck Debunked by … Washington Post?

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

A broken clock is right twice a day, and even one of the most reliable liberal propaganda organs can’t deny Pete Buttigieg is a liar:

The Washington Post reviewed “every possible regulatory change” that was made under the Trump administration and found that none of them contributed to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
“We decided to examine every possible regulatory change made under Trump that could be related to the accident and assess whether it could have made an impact,” read a review published Monday by Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post.
“From our analysis, none of the regulatory changes made during the Trump administration at this point can be cited as contributing to the accident,” Kessler added.
The review of “every possible regulatory change” made under Trump was conducted after U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was called out for falsely claiming that a proposed rule withdrawn in 2018 (under the Trump administration) had contributed to the train disaster in Ohio.
Even a member of Biden’s own administration (National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy) called Buttigieg’s claims about the East Palestine train derailment “misinformation.”
On Thursday, the New York Times also acknowledged in a report that the claims that former President Donald Trump’s administration was responsible for the train derailment in East Palestine due to it rolling back a rail safety rule is inaccurate.
But by that point, it was already too late as the false claim initially made by Buttigieg on February 14 had already circulated on social media where people regurgitated the transportation secretary’s remarks, spreading confusion and falsehoods across the internet.

If even the Washington Post is compelled to side with Trump against Buttigieg, that’s really bad news for the Buttigieg 2024 campaign.



 

 

Category: Media Bias, Ohio

Rule 5 Monday: Lana Turner

Posted on | February 28, 2023 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You can thank RazØrfist for this week’s babe, since he pointed out on Twitter something I hadn’t known about this sultry star: besides being a fine actress who did amazing things with sweaters, she was a fierce anticommunist and wound up on the blacklist of the commie union front group, which tried to stage a boycott of her films. Here she is in Imitation of Life. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Newsom Nuisance News, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – East Palestine, Crystal Gayle, Anna, Weirdo: Georgia Grand Jury Foreman,  Holiday Inn, Sugar Boy Crawford & The Dixie Cups, “Go To Mardi Gras”, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, Waterloo’s Warriors, and Physical 100.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicola Peltz – Good Enough for Hunter Biden, Maryland Tightens Recreational Limits on He-Crabs, Fish Pic Friday – Heather Born to Fish, Some Thursday Tanlines, Lighten Up, Girls, Wednesday Wetness, Pirates With a 501(c)(3), Tattoo Tuesday, Flotsam and Jetsam for Monday Morning, The Monday Morning Stimulus, RIP: Stella Stevens, Palm Sunday, Oregon, My Oregon and The Sins of the Mother

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Good News From California

Posted on | February 27, 2023 | 1 Comment

Kristopher Julian Baca Jr.

Say hello to 17-year-old Kristopher Baca and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because this juvenile dirtbag is no longer depleting the earth’s supply of oxygen. You’ve never heard his name before, but you may remember a case that made national headlines last year:

A Los Angeles mom mowed down with her baby by a hit-and-run teen driver who was given just five months in a youth camp has lashed out at soft-on-crime District Attorney George Gascón during an early-release hearing — as she also revealed she is hightailing it out of the state due to fear.
“Nobody in the room actually believes that (the suspect) is a good kid,” the furious woman, identified as Rachel, said in a call into an LA County courtroom in Lancaster, Fox News reported.
“Look at what he did. Nobody changes who they are to the core in four months,” she complained.
The 16-year-old driver was ordered in June to participate in a diversionary program at a juvenile probation camp over the August 2021 incident involving a stolen car.
Shocking surveillance video showed the teen plowing directly into Rachel as she pushed her 8-month-old son in his stroller down a Venice street the morning of Aug. 6.

That juvenile car thief was Kristopher Baca. He was already on probation at the time for trying to drug a girl’s drink, “roofie,” as they call it. And yet, after an offense that was clearly attempted murder, Gascon’s office treated Baca as if he were guilty of nothing more than a traffic offense, and he walked out free after just a few months in what was basically summer camp. Oh, but karma is always the proverbial bitch:

A Los Angeles-area teenager who ran over a mother walking her child in a stroller in Venice in 2021 and received just a few months of diversionary camp as punishment was gunned down in Palmdale [Jan. 19], according to FOX News.
Kristopher Baca, 17, of Palmdale was found fatally shot on Wednesday on a driveway in the 38600 block of 11th Street East, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
FOX 11 had not previously identified Baca in connection with the Venice hit-and-run due to his age. He pleaded guilty in the hit-and-run case last year.
The Los Angeles County Coroner-Medical Examiner’s office confirmed Baca’s death Friday but said the examination was still pending. At this time, there is no indication that his death is connected to the hit-and-run case, and no suspect description was available.
Sources close to the investigation told FOX News that he had been at a fast food restaurant earlier trying to “get with a girl.”
“As he walked home alone, a car pulled up next to him and an argument broke out. Someone in the vehicle opened fire, then sped off,” FOX News reported.

This is a sort of moral lesson that should be taught to children, the Parable of the Teenage Dirtbag, so that they learn what happens to young people who go astray. Even if they happen to be living in a car-thief’s paradise like L.A. where the District Attorney is objectively pro-crime, sooner of later that Big Wheel o’ Karma in the Sky is gonna turn, and the worthless punk will find himself bleeding out in somebody’s driveway.

Not since Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald has a murder victim’s death been less lamentable. Everybody in America is happy that Kristopher Baca got gunned down, a nearly ideal outcome. (I say “nearly ideal” because, without naming names, there are some people in California who deserve to die more than Baca did, IYKWIMAITYD.)



 

 

Category: California, Crime

In Defense of Scott Adams

Posted on | February 27, 2023 | 2 Comments

As everybody knows now, “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams has been #canceled because of what is being called a “racist rant” he posted on his daily video stream last week. An acquaintance who knows Adams passed along the word that Adams is wealthy enough that this is basically his way of taking early retirement. What’s most interesting in this controversy is that none of the people rushing to condemn Adams has even bothered to explain why what he said was wrong.

As a matter of fact, good luck finding any media outlet that has actually quoted Adams — at length, in context, so that readers can judge for themselves whether he said anything “racist.” When I went searching for a transcript, I couldn’t find one, nor did any media sources quote more than a few phrases from his “rant,” and this ought to be your first clue that maybe you’re being misled by the shrieking maniacs in this cancel-culture lynch mob. Click here to see for yourself the full “rant,” and perhaps many people would say Adams “went too far,” or suspect that maybe he was engaging in hyperbole, exaggerating for effect — which, if you think about it, is what his cartoons often do, exaggerating the behavior of people in office environments for comic effect.

Is it possible that Scott’s humor is too subtle for some people? During his “rant” (which wasn’t actually a rant), Adams says, “As you know, I’ve been identifying as black for a while — years now — because I like to be on the winning team.” Satire much? The claim of “identifying as black” is obviously a joke, intended to mock the likes of Rachel Dolezal or the whole “identity” thing, as such. With that humorous preamble, then, why are we supposed to treat what comes after it as entirely serious?

But that’s just how it is with cancel culture. The target of the shrieking mob is presumed guilty, and people are afraid to defend the target, lest they become tainted with guilt-by-association. Too many people buy into this mentality, believing that the accusation of “racism” (or “transphobia” or whatever) must always be treated seriously, as if the cancel culture lynch mob can be presumed to be acting in good faith. There must be something wrong with Adams, many people will assume, because why else would people be saying these things about him? Here, for example, is Lincoln Brown “defending” (?) Adams at PJMedia:

In an already polarized nation, Adams’ comments are the red meat over which the blue media salivates. The Daily Kos began its piece with the 1963 quote from former Alabama governor George Wallace, “I say, segregation today… segregation tomorrow… segregation forever.” The comparison was obvious. The Daily Beast’s headline called Adams “unhinged” and kicked off the article by calling him a Trump supporter. Because you can’t write a news piece today without mentioning Trump at least once.*
Adams did make some inflammatory comments. Calling 47% of blacks a hate group certainly qualifies. Urging white people to get away from black people has raised some eyebrows, as has his talking about his own decision to move. But he also quoted CNN’s Don Lemon as saying that there are problems in black neighborhoods that are not present in white neighborhoods. The Left can be as outraged as it wants, but Lemon said it. Start with him.
Was Adams’ video a racist rant, or the sound of a man giving up?

How about, neither? Consider the possibility that what Adams was doing was trying to call attention to a serious social problem and choosing, as his weapon, his accustomed hyperbole. Or as an alternative theory– if you think his remarks about white people needing to “get the hell away from black people” were meant literally — how about the possibility that Adams was merely guilty of saying out loud what a lot of white people (including liberal white people) actually do in their day-to-day lives. Like, when was the last time any of you crackers visited West Baltimore? Or do any of the people denouncing Scott Adams as racist have any intention to relocate to Philadelphia’s Tioga-Nicetown neighborhood?

Because I’m not a mind-reader, I won’t pretend to know what Scott Adams had in mind when he said what he said, but I know him to be an intelligent person who probably doesn’t plan to start painting swastikas on synagogues or fire-bombing black churches to express his “racism.” Nor do I think he intends to incite anyone else to “hate crimes.” The risk of oppressed minorities being attacked by “Dilbert” fans is probably close to zero. The idea of Scott Adams as a 21st-century Hitler is ludicrous and yet, because the shrieking mob of lunatics is yelling “RAAAAACISM!” at the top of their lungs, every newspaper in the country has to cancel the only comic strip that is still funny. Perhaps the best thing you can do is to order some Dilbert books like Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response, or maybe some Dilbert T-shirts, and then go spray-paint swastikas all over the place. No, wait — that was a joke!

You can never be too careful about this stuff nowadays.



 

 

Category: Racism

NFL Star: ‘Hey, New York Taxes Suck!’

Posted on | February 27, 2023 | Comments Off on NFL Star: ‘Hey, New York Taxes Suck!’

Buffalo Bills strong safety Jordan Poyer is one of the best defensive backs in the NFL. If you’re a quarterback going up against the Bills, your first read is to figure out where Poyer is, and then throw the ball somewhere else. (Just ask Lamar Jackson what happens if you throw it near Poyer.) When he signed a contract extension with the Bills three years ago, it was worth $9.7 million a year, but this year, Poyer’s a free agent, and it doesn’t seem likely he’ll be sticking around Buffalo:

When discussing where he would like to play, money was a major factor for Poyer. Last year, he made $5.6 million, but was open about how he felt on the taxes that were taken from that number.
“A lot of people ask me, ‘Oh, if it wasn’t Buffalo, where would you go?’ I kind of ponder the question every once in a while,” Poyer said . . . “I would love to go to a state that doesn’t take half my money. It’s crazy to me how taxes work. Some people will say, ‘You’re already making X amount of money.’ Taxes play a big part in all of our lives.”
In 2022, New York had the highest tax burden in the country at 12.75 percent, according to CNBC. Poyer made more in 2022 than he did with his 2019, 2020 and 2021 salaries combined, and the impact of the taxes was clearly felt by the safety.
If he wants a place without state income tax, there are multiple locations with no income tax and an NFL team that could be options.

Tennessee (Titans), Nevada (Las Vegas Raiders), Texas (Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans), and most of all Florida (Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins) would seem the most promising relocation spots for Poyer, if avoiding state income taxes is his top priority in free agency. Because I’m a Patriots fan, I’d prefer Poyer to exit the AFC East, so scratch Miami off the list, and frankly it would be better if he left the AFC altogether, which eliminates the Titans, the Raiders, the Texans and the Jags. Looking at the 2023 Patriots schedule, I see they’ve got an away game at Dallas, so therefore the ideal location for Poyer is Tampa Bay. Best wishes, Bucs fans! Certainly, there’s no hope that Poyer would consider an offer from New England, because the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts is scarcely better than New York.



 

 

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