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Rule 5 Monday: The Best Rack In Hollywood?

Posted on | April 5, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: The Best Rack In Hollywood?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that’s what Sydney Sweeney’s grandparents think, anyway. Pretty sure I’ve seen better on other women who are not the Euphoria star, but whatever.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1673, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Dying Giants Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA DeSantis, April Fools Day, June Marlowe, Vanessa Williams, Pachinko, Free Guy, Oscars, Belfast, Nightmare Alley, and Drive My Car.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Vanessa Lachey, MD Issues New Striped Bass Regs, Fish Pic Friday – Annie Nagel, Who Says There’s No Point in Tattoos?, FEC Fines Clinton Campaign, DNC Over Russiagate, Some Thursday Tanlines, The Slap Seen Round the World . . ., The Wednesday Wetness, Suit Seeks to Legalize Swimming with Dolphins, Tuesday Tattoos, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Shifting Through the Lens

Posted on | April 4, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Shifting Through the Lens

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sorry about the extreme lateness of this post, but it’s been a rough weekend here in the Biggest Little City In The World. My Senators finished the season on the road 60-66, getting swept by the Indians at the Mistake By The Lake before going to Baltimore and taking two out of three from the Birds. We would have swept them, too, if it weren’t for that Lolich kid. Now to get ready for the 1970 season, where there will be three expansion teams (California, Houston, and Philadelphia, maybe?) and possibly one of you could be the fourth one!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Rule 5 Sunday: Mariah Carey
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Alexa, What Is an Ideologue?’
A View From The Beach
EBL

Podcasting World War III
EBL

Ukraine: Combat Reported at Borodyanka
357 Magnum
EBL

Aspiring Rapper Update: ‘Baby Cino’ Gets Out of Jail, Immediately Gets Shot Dead
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Burn Witch Burn
A View From The Beach
EBL

Why Is ‘Russian Disinformation’ More Trustworthy Than the Liberal Media?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.28.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Ukraine: Irpin Mayor Says Town Is ‘Liberated,’ Others Say … Eh, Maybe
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.29.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

“OK, Groomer”: Democrats Go All-In on Promoting LGBTQ to Young Children
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.30.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
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In The Mailbox: 04.01.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
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In The Mailbox: 04.01.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
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Top linkers for the week ending April 1:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach & 357 Magnum (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Taylor Lorenz Is a Dangerous Sociopath

Posted on | April 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Taylor Lorenz Is a Dangerous Sociopath

Remember the acronym DARVO? It stands for “Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender,” a pattern of behavior first described by psychologist Jennifer Freyd particularly dealing with sex offenders whose response to being apprehended for their crimes followed this script: First, to deny the accusation, then to attack the person confronting them with charges of wrongdoing and then to portray themselves as the real victim in an unjust conspiracy against themselves. The cops, the district attorney, the judge — everybody’s out to get them, see? And they’re completely innocent! The accusations are false, the accusers are liars, and as to a motive for why everybody would just make this stuff up, well, his ex-wife wants more child support, the sheriff wants to get reelected, etc.

At the heart of the DARVO response is the sociopath’s arrogant belief in his own ability to deceive others, which is accompanied by a tendency toward self-pity and blame-shifting. The sociopath is irresponsible, refusing to acknowledge that the negative consequences of his harmful behavior are valid and just. In his egocentric worldview, anything bad that happens to him is always wrong, no matter how clear it is that he is to blame for these bad outcomes. Having had the misfortune of dealing with a notorious sociopath, I could go down a long list of examples of this DARVO behavioral tendency. Sociopaths are selfish, dishonest and cruel, taking pleasure in inflicting harm on others, but when they are confronted with evidence of their wrongdoing, suddenly they adopt the role of the victim, and expect others to view them sympathetically. Which brings us to the case of Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz.

Notice the shrewd political spin here. You might think (if you believed Taylor Lorenz) that all the “online harassment” directed at her is the result of “right wing smear campaigns.” Clearly, what she is trying to do is to rally Team Progressive to her defense, without anyone pausing to ask why it is that so many people hate Taylor Lorenz. After all, about 90% of what she does is covering teenagers on TikTok and other social-media “influencers” the way People magazine covers Hollywood celebrities.

The ‘Journalistic Tattletale’ Racket

How is it that the queen of TikTok gossip came to this ridiculous pose of being the victim of “right wing” harassment? The answer involves Glenn Greenwald who, whatever you say about his current populist tendencies, is certainly not “right wing” in any meaningful sense of the word. There was a time, less than 10 years ago, when I would have been happy to see the U.S. government apprehend Greenwald and send him to federal prison, considering his enthusiastic support of Bradley Manning and other such renegade anti-American leakers, hackers, etc. The strange evolutions of political discourse have had the effect of putting Greenwald on “my” side — especially as an adversary of the “Deep State” and Silicon Valley oligarchy — but that doesn’t make him an apostle of Burke and Kirk, let alone Calvin and Knox. However, politics is a team sport, and we should be grateful to everyone willing to help “our” side, so I will refrain from any criticism of Glenn Greenwald, but my point here is that he is definitely not “right wing.” At any rate, in February 2021, Greenwald called out Taylor Lorenz for her role as “journalistic tattletale” after she “falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen of having used the ‘slur’ word ‘retarded’ during a discussion about the Reddit/GameStop uprising.” Lorenz was cited as one example of what Greenwald identified as a current media trend:

Just as the NSA is obsessed with ensuring there be no place on earth where humans can communicate free of their spying eyes and ears, these journalistic hall monitors cannot abide the idea that there can be any place on the internet where people are free to speak in ways they do not approve. Like some creepy informant for a state security apparatus, they spend their days trolling the depths of chat rooms and 4Chan bulletin boards and sub-Reddit threads and private communications apps to find anyone — influential or obscure — who is saying something they believe should be forbidden, and then use the corporate megaphones they did not build and could not have built but have been handed in order to silence and destroy anyone who dissents from the orthodoxies of their corporate managers or challenges their information hegemony.
Oliver Darcy has built his CNN career by sitting around with Brian Stelter petulantly pointing to people breaking the rules on social media and demanding tech executives make the rule-breakers disappear. The little crew of tattletale millennials assembled by NBC — who refer to their twerpy work with the self-glorifying title of “working in the disinformation space”: as intrepid and hazardous as exposing corruption by repressive regimes or reporting from war zones — spend their dreary days scrolling through 4Chan boards to expose the offensive memes and bad words used by transgressive adolescents; they then pat themselves on the back for confronting dangerous power centers, even when it is nothing more trivial and bullying than doxxing the identities of powerless, obscure citizens.

Do you see why it is not “right wing” to be concerned about this? The idea that it is a proper and necessary role for journalists to act as snoops and snitches, eavesdropping on other people’s private conversations to see if they’re using politically incorrect slang, is 180-degrees opposite of what I was taught as a journalism student. It’s the kind of behavior that led to Trump calling the media “the enemy of the people.”

If Andreessen used a “slur” in talking about Reddit, so what? It is a fact that a popular slogan of the sub-Reddit that fought the GameStop battle is “Long live the retard revolution!” Were there any mentally impaired people listening in on the conversation who might have been offended by Andreessen’s use of this “slur”? Was anyone actually harmed by this?

As it turned out, however, it actually wasn’t Andreessen who used this word in the discussion on the Clubhouse app:

Numerous Clubhouse participants, including Kmele Foster, immediately documented that Lorenz had lied. The moderator of the discussion, Nait Jones, said that “Marc never used that word.” What actually happened was that Felicia Horowitz, a different participant in the discussion, had “explained that the Redditors call themselves ‘retard revolution’” and that was the only mention of that word.
Rather than apologizing and retracting, Lorenz thanked Jones for “clarifying,” and then emphasized how hurtful it is to use that word. She deleted the original tweet without comment, and then — with the smear fully realized — locked her account.

What did I tell you about sociopaths? Selfish, dishonest and cruel.

Having sought to inflict reputational damage on Marc Andreessen, and then being called out for this attempted libel, Taylor Lorenz dishonestly tried to pretend otherwise, then sought to hide her wrongdoing and protect herself from consequences by locking down her Twitter account.

If you read the entirety of Greenwald’s Feb. 7, 2021, Substack article — and you definitely should — you’ll see that he was calling attention to this incident as an example of a pattern of behavior by young journalists: Instead of taking on what Greenwald calls “real power centers,” instead they engage in what he calls “this penny-ante, trivial bullshit — tattling, hall monitoring, speech policing.” Indeed, the Thought Police are everywhere, and many of them pretend to be doing “journalism.”

Criticism = ‘Harasssment’

What must it be like, living in an egocentric universe where everything revolves around the personal drama of Taylor Lorenz? She basically threw an online pity party with herself as guest of honor, inviting everyone to feel sorry for her plight as a victim of misogynistic right-wing harassment. After all, Tucker Carlson had mentioned her!

“You see this attitude everywhere all of a sudden, the most powerful people claiming to be powerless. Taylor Lorenz, for example, writes for The New York Times. She’s at the very top of journalism’s repulsive little food chain. Lorenz is far younger than prominent New York Times reporters used to be. She’s also much less talented. You’d think Taylor Lorenz would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that she’s had. But no, she’s not. Just this morning, she tweeted this quote for International Women’s Day: ‘Please consider supporting women enduring online harassment. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the harassment and smear campaign I’ve had to endure over the past year has destroyed my life.’ Hmm. Destroyed her life? Really? By most people’s standards, Taylor Lorenz would seem to have a pretty good life, one of the best lives in the country, in fact. Lots of people are suffering right now, but no one’s suffering quite as much as Taylor Lorenz is suffering. People have criticized her opinions on the Internet and it destroyed her life.”
— Tucker Carlson, March 9, 2021

This 175-word reference to Taylor Lorenz was part of a much longer opening monologue to Carlson’s program, inspired by the Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Carlson went from point to point — beginning with these whiny British royals, proceeding to Hillary Clinton, and so on — to highlight the trend of wealthy and powerful people claiming to be oppressed victims of injustice.

As might have been predicted, however, the journalism community went bonkers, declaring that Carlson had “attacked” Lorenz. Where does it come from, this belief that no journalist should ever be criticized? Who wrote this rule book, with its secret codicil, “Taylor Lorenz can say anything she wants on Twitter, and nobody is allowed to criticize her”?

Weird, I’ve been a journalist since 1986, and nobody ever told me I was exempt from criticism. Maybe that secret codicil doesn’t apply to me or maybe what we’re witnessing here is something else I’ve noticed about sociopaths, namely their uncanny ability to recruit enablers to assist them in their wicked schemes. The sociopath is a natural-born con man and, as P.T. Barnum said, there’s a sucker born every minute. Sociopaths have a sort of radar that allows them to spot gullible people who can be easily manipulated, and once ensnared by the con man’s deception, these suckers never seem to get wise to the game. So it is with all of Taylor Lorenz’s fangirls and fanboys in journalism, who seem to have fallen hook, line and sinker for her self-dramatizing victimhood narrative.

Since she was “attacked” last year by Carlson, Taylor Lorenz has gone from the New York Times to the Washington Post, but she’s still peddling the same journalistic product, and still claiming that people saying mean things on Twitter have destroyed her life. MSNBC last week featured her on a segment in which she claimed to have “severe PTSD”:

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) first came to public attention in reference to Vietnam combat veterans. If we are to believe Taylor Lorenz, people saying mean things about her on Twitter is exactly like getting ambushed by the Vietcong, dodging mortar shells and machine-gun fire in the jungle, watching your buddies bleed to death.

Mean tweets are the siege of Khe Sanh in the Tet Offensive, in terms of the psychological trauma inflicted on survivors like Taylor Lorenz.

Or so we are expected to believe, by the media enablers eager to help Taylor Lorenz keep running this victimhood scam that’s become her stock in trade. Glenn Greenwald is having none of that:

It is almost impossible to envision a single individual in whom power, privilege and elite prerogative reside more abundantly than Taylor Lorenz. Using the metrics of elite liberal culture, the word “privilege” was practically invented for her: a rich straight white woman from a wealthy family raised in Greenwich, Connecticut and educated in actual Swiss boarding schools who now writes about people’s lives, often casually destroying those lives, on the front pages of the most powerful East Coast newspapers on the planet. And yet, in the eyes of her fellow media and political elites, there is virtually no person more victimized, more deserving of your sympathy and attention, more vulnerable, marginalized and abused than she.
That is because . . . Taylor Lorenz must sometimes hear criticisms of her work and her views. Virtually alone among journalists . . . Lorenz hears criticisms of her work, sometimes in the form of very angry and even profane or threatening tweets from anonymous people online. This not only means that she deserves your sympathy and concern but, more importantly, that you should heap scorn and recrimination on those who criticize her work because they are responsible for the trauma she endures. Most of all, you must never criticize her publicly for fear of what you might unleash against her. . . .
The NBC segment has to be watched in its entirety to be believed. Though the emotional performances are moving and spectacular — no denying that — it is important not to let your tears drown out the actual point they are making. It is a quite sinister and insidious lesson they are preaching. When powerful media elites receive mean and abusive tweets from anonymous and random people on Twitter, it is not the fault of those sending those tweets but rather the fault of anyone criticizing their work and their journalism. The only moral conclusion is clear: one should refrain from criticizing employees of media corporations lest one be responsible for unleashing traumatizing abuse at them.

This demand for protection — the idea that Taylor Lorenz is a victim of injustice — can only be understood as part of a DARVO response. Nowhere in all the mainstream media’s coverage of the so-called “harassment” directed at Lorenz does one ever find any useful description of what she has done over the years to attract criticism of her work. Her original claim to fame (or, at least, the first time anyone on the “right wing” paid attention to her) was when Lorenz doxxed the teenage daughters of conservative blogger Pamela Geller. Considering that Geller has long been a target of Islamic terrorists — two ISIS gunmen tried to kill her in Texas in 2015, the same year another Muslim was shot by police after threatening to behead her — what was the point of doxxing Geller’s teenage daughters? Are we just supposed to ignore this in the context of Taylor Lorenz claiming to be a traumatized victim?

But her media enablers don’t even acknowledge Lorenz’s malicious history, and instead expect their audience to nod sympathetically as Lorenz boohoos on camera about how she’s suffering from PTSD, just like your uncle who spent five years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton. The possibility that Taylor Lorenz is a bad person — well, this never occurs to anybody in the liberal media, the same way none of them ever questioned the veracity of the Steele Dossier, or doubted Michael Avenatti’s honesty.

There’s a sucker born every minute and nowadays most of them are working in the media. They get angry with anyone who points this out.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

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Category: Media Bias

Russian Invaders Retreat From Kyiv

Posted on | April 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Russian Invaders Retreat From Kyiv

The key town of Borodyanka, 45 miles northwest of Kyiv, is now back in Ukrainian hands, after Russian forces retreated from the areas west of Ukraine’s capital, including Bucha:

Dead civilians still lay scattered over the streets of the Ukrainian country town of Bucha on Saturday, three days after the invading Russian army pulled back from its abortive advance on Kyiv to the southeast.
The smell of explosives still hung in the cold, dank air, mingling with the stench of death.
Sixty-six-year-old Vasily, who gave no surname, looked at the sprawled remains of more than a dozen civilians dotted along the road outside his house, his face disfigured with grief.
Residents said they had been killed by the Russian troops during their month-long occupation. . . .
Local officials gave Reuters reporters access to the area, and a policeman led the way through streets now patrolled by Ukrainian tanks to the road where the bodies lay.
It was not clear why they had not yet been buried.
Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said more than 300 residents of the town had been killed, and a mass grave at one church ground was still open, with hands and feet poking through the red clay heaped on top.
Several streets were strewn with the mangled wrecks of burned-out Russian tanks and armoured vehicles. Unexploded rockets lay on the road and, in one spot, an unexploded mortar shell poked out of the tarmac.
A column of Ukrainian tanks patrolled, flying blue and yellow national flags. One resident who had survived the ordeal hugged a soldier, and gave the military battle-cry: “Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes!”

It remains to be seen whether Russia can or will regroup and make another attempt to capture Kyiv, although this seems unlikely. Their first onslaught was made with the advantage of surprise, including an airborne assault at the Hostomel airfield, and yet failed. Putin’s commanders underestimated the ferocity of Ukrainian resistance, and the Russian invaders experienced logistical failures that made their further advance impossible. For now, at least, the scene of fighting will shift to the east and south, while the citizens in and around Kyiv begin the work of rebuilding what the Russians destroyed.

John Hoge, Dianna Deeley and I will discuss the war in Ukraine and other topics tonight at 7 p.m. ET on The Other Podcast.




 

Category: Ukraine

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | April 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Sad news from Jacksonville, Florida:

A 5-year-old girl is dead after the car she was in skidded into a Southside retention pond during a high-speed chase of a kidnapping suspect across Jacksonville, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The child was the suspect’s daughter, her family told news partner First Coast News.
Now the 32-year-old woman is behind bars on charges of vehicular homicide, fleeing police and more after the chase ended near Durbin Creek, police said. Pamelia Tereza Cabrera also faces two counts of battery against a police officer after the 30-mile chase began on the Northside and hit speeds of 90 mph.
It started about 8 p.m. when someone called police about a woman armed with a knife kidnapping the girl near Biscayne Boulevard and Dunn Avenue, police said. The incident started at their home off Duval Road, the family told First Coast News, adding that Cabrera has a mental health condition.
While responding to the scene, an officer spotted a Nissan Murano driven by a woman who matched the description driving away from the scene, police said.
One of three police reports indicates that the woman continued east on Dunn Avenue, “running every red light from Biscayne Boulevard to I-95” as she changed lanes erratically at a high rate of speed. She almost hit multiple other vehicles, even driving on the inside shoulder of Interstate 95 as she passed trucks. Multiple patrol cars joined the pursuit.
As the woman tried to exit I-95 at Florida 9B, she crashed, police said.
“She was coming down the ramp, .. and ended up driving straight off this ramp into a pond,” Sheriff’s Office spokesman Christian Hancock said. “Officers were on scene, behind her at this time. Numerous officers got out of their vehicles, took off their gear and went into the water.”
Officers were able to locate and rescue the woman but not the child. A dive team later found the girl at the bottom of the pond, police said.
Taken into custody, Cabrera apparently yelled “I’ll show you decent” at one officer who tried to cover her with a blanket due to her lack of clothing, one report said. And when she was hospitalized due to possible injuries, she became uncooperative with staff as blood came from her nose and mouth, and a spit mask was put on her, police said.
Cabrera does not have a criminal history in Duval County, according to court records. But Hillsborough County records show two arrests in the last couple of years, including battery. She was adjudicated not competent for trial “due to mental illness” in one case and committed to the custody of the Department of Children and Families.

More background on the crazy woman:

In an affidavit obtained by First Coast News, details from Pamela Tereza Cabrera’s mother further explain the state of her mental health leading up to Thursday nights crash.
Maria B. Ortiz, Cabrera’s mother, explained the state of her daughters health in the affidavit from 2020. Cabrera was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to the document. Her mother said there were times when she would lose track of time or go without sleep.
While she was prescribed medication for her mental illnesses, Cabrera would refuse to take it as she said she did not need them. When she was on her medication, she was herself again and able to think clearly, according to her mother.
At the time the document was written, Cabrera’s daughter Vanity was 4-years-old. Cabrera lost custody of her daughter in 2020. Vanity was living with her aunt, per the Department of Children and Family’s request.
Cabrera was “lost” without her daughter, according to the affidavit. DCFS required her to complete behavioral classes to receive custody of her child.

Crazy People Are Dangerous, and not just because they run red lights. In Dunkirk, Indiana, 36-year-old Kevin Zimmerman was shot to death by police in March:

A family member told The Star Press that Zimmerman had bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
The week of his death, the relative said, the Dunkirk man was having difficulties with paranoia, believing that he was in danger of being attacked.

Zimmerman attacked one of the cops with an eight-inch butcher knife. The county prosecutor ruled the shooting justified.

In Richland County, South Carolina, 34-year-old Irvin Moorer-Charley was shot to death by deputies who responded to a 911 call about a domestic incident. An attorney for the family says Moorer-Charley “had schizophrenia and . . . deputies had responded to the home for mental health calls multiple times.” This time, however, Moorer-Charley was armed with a 16-inch sharpened wooden stake and advanced on one of the deputies after saying, “Y’all gonna have to shoot me.” The deputies obliged his request. There is video of the fatal incident.

Maybe de-institutionalizing the mentally ill was a bad idea. Just sayin’ . . .




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 04.01.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 2, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.01.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Cry harder.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Will The FBI Ever Be Held To Account?
EBL: Pedo Democrat Teachers Are Trying To Groom Your Kids, also, BBC Reports On The Spaghetti Harvest In Ticino
Twitchy: Disney Heiress Says The Devil Mouse Has The Power To Crush “That Little Punk” Christopher Rufo & Other Critics Of Disney Values
Louder With Crowder: Karma Strikes As Toddler-Murdering Convict Killed By Group Of Inmates
Vox Popoli: But OUR Public School Is Great, Devil Mouse Goes Full Evil, and Red China Stands Against Globohomo
According To Hoyt: Positioned For Success, also, Paper Targets
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S2E13 – Character Growth & Development, also, Current Events Catchup Post For April 1
Stoic Observations: Ralph Lauren & The Old School

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Drone War & Turkish Delight, also, The Magic Kingdom Is Coming For Your Kids
American Greatness: More Scandals Envelop The Already Scandal-Ridden FBI, also, Bad Orange Woman To Flee Sinking Biden Ship In May, Possibly For MSNBC
American Power: The Lynching Of Justice Clarence Thomas, also, Florida Legislators Consider Revoking Law Giving Disney Effective Self-Government On Its Property 
American Thinker: Were You Better Off With Trump? also, Biden, The Ersatz President
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Dying Giants Friday
Babalu Blog: Another Top Baseball Prospect Escapes Cuba, also, The Infinite Loop Of Communism
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 1
Behind The Black: Pushback – University’s Attempted Blacklisting Of Student Abruptly Ends When Lawyers Get Involved, Will XCOR’s Lynx Spaceplane be Reborn As Smallsat Launcher? and How To Replace Blinker Fluid
Cafe Hayek: It’s Impossible For Any Country To Be The Low-Cost Producer Of All Outputs 
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy: I’m Proud To Be A Nonconforming Nonconformist…, And Now For Something Completely DifferentA Monty Python April Fool’s Joke, and April Indulgence Calendar
Don Surber: Biden Remarried Russia & Red China, DeSantis Gets It Done, and There Are No Defenders Of Western Civilization
First Street Journal: The Washington Post Makes Itself Ridiculous
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Ukrainian Refugees In Munich, Zelensky Converts To Islam, and The Sweden Syndrome
The Geller Report: School Nurse Fired For Exposing That School Put 11-Year-Old On Puberty Blockers, also, Appeals Court Rules Oberlin Must Pay $31 Million To Bakery It Defamed As Racist
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Tonight’s Sky, and Coal-Fired Teslas
Hollywood In Toto: The Bruce Willis Film His Die Hard Fans Overlooked, Variety Shows True Colors With Biased Take On Daily Wire’s Disney Coverage, and Richard Dreyfuss – Woke Will Kill America
The Lid: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Is Going Down Biden’s Drain
Legal Insurrection: VMI Alumni Fight Plans For DIE Programming, Biden Admin Endorses Puberty blockers, Hormone Therapy, & “Gender-Affirming” Surgeries For Children, and Former Yale Medical School Admin Admits Stealing $40 Million From School
Outkick: Arch Manning’s NIL Valuation Expected To Be In The Millions, Bryce Harper Jacks a 112 MPH Homer, and Tennessee Called For Using Illegal Bat And Tony Vitello Goes Off
Power Line: The Latest Trump Scandal – Never Mind, Return To George Floyd Square, and Goodbye Disney
Shark Tank: DeSantis Teases Removing Disney’s Self-Governing Status
Shot In The Dark: Can The Center Hold?, Democracy Is Strangled In Darkness, and Hunter The Mighty Nimrod
STUMP: Updating Sean Bean’s Mortality Rate
This Ain’t Hell: Food Insecurity Stipend Coming To Aid Troops, Valor Friday, and Russian Troops Suffer From Acute Radiation Sickness
Transterrestrial Musings: Quitting Disney, Government Schools, and Russia’s Debacle
Victory Girls: Energy Independence Shot Down Again By Democrats
Volokh Conspiracy: Two Illiberal, Unjust Zelensky Policies The West Should Pressure Him To End
Watts Up With That: Germany Pays A Horrible Price For Decades Of Green Energy Insanity, also, Solar Energy Explains Fast Retreat Of Antarctic Ice
Weasel Zippers: Energy Secretary Granholm Suggests You Buy A $55,000 EV If You Don’t Like High Gas Prices, Judge Rules NY State Must Redraw Redistricting Map That Gave Democrats Three More House Seats, and Senile Old Man Endorses Children Having Genitals Amputated
The Federalist: Biden’s Lack Of Ukraine Strategy Shows He Doesn’t Have One For America Either, Working-Class Americans Should Refuse To Fight Utopian Feminists’ Foreign Wars, and How Liberalism Ruined Sex & Degraded Women
Mark Steyn: Lessons From A Won War, also, Every Dog Should Have His Day

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In The Mailbox: 04.01.22

Posted on | April 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.01.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Longer post late tonight; in the meantime, thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in March.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Rely On Pepper Spray
EBL: St. Balbina Of Rome
Twitchy: “Water Carrying DOLTS”
Louder With Crowder: Daily Wire Announces $100 Million Investment To Compete With Disney Kids’ Entertainment
Vox Popoli: The World’s Evil Factory
Urban Scoop: A Crisis Of Trust

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Two Views On The Ukraine War
American Conservative: Christians Lead The Way At NatCon Europe
American Greatness: Ariz. Governor Signs Bill Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
American Power: WSJ Poll – Bidenflation Taking Heaviest Toll On Non-White Workers
American Thinker: What The Forever Crises Are Really About
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Smoking Gun News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Protester Gets Five Years In Jail For Holding Up Homemade Sign
BattleSwarm: What New Hunter Biden Revelations Are Coming Down The Pike?
Behind The Black: New Shepard Completes Another Commercial Suborbital Flight
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: People Died For What You Can Get In A Click
Chicago Boyz: Done With Disney
Da Tech Guy: Things That Make You Go Hmmm In Ukraine
Don Surber: A Star Rises In West Virginia
First Street Journal: A Public Service Homicide
Gates Of Vienna: North Africans In Spain Consider Ukrainians Fair Game
The Geller Report: Biden – “I’m Committed To Advancing Transgender Equality…Everywhere”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Better But Still Not Good
Hollywood In Toto: When Will Comedians Stop Protecting Kamala Harris?
The Lid: View Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says Biden Should Rule Like A Dictator
Legal Insurrection: Disney Employee Says Cast Members Supporting Parental Rights Far Outnumber Those Opposing It
Nebraska Energy Observer: Not Only For Canada
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Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception

Posted on | April 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Florida Man Shot to Death After Attacking Cops at His Niece’s Wedding Reception

“This is why we can’t have nice things,” as they say. When your wedding reception turns into a brawl and somebody calls 911? That’s not good. Then the bride’s uncle punches the cops and gets shot to death?

Daniel Patrick Knight, 39, had a criminal record dating back as far as 1998, when he was 15. According to the Florida Department of Corrections website, in 2006 Knight was sentenced to state prison for the charges of: Robbery, Grand Theft Motor Vehicle, Burglary, Trafficking in Stolen Property, Burglary of a Dwelling, Fleeing and Attempting to Elude a Police Officer and Felony Driving While License Suspended. He was released from state prison in 2013. After he was shot to death at the February 19 wedding reception for his niece, the family claimed police were lying about what preceded the shooting:

Daniel Knight’s family held a news conference in Lakeland on Tuesday night alongside representatives from Black Lives Matter Restoration Polk Inc.
The 39-year-old’s family said Knight was not belligerent or violent during the reception at the Winter Park Events Center on Saturday.
“He was never harmful, he was never aggressive,” said Knight’s niece, Janisha Knight, the bride.
Winter Park police released the 911 call that led to police responding to the venue, in which the caller said a man was “grabbing people by the neck” and “shoving people to the floor.”
In audio released Monday, the caller said, “He’s grabbing an older woman and shoving her.” He was described as “violent” and “very drunk.”

Well, not only was there audio of the 911 call, but there was also (a) surveillance video of the scene and (b) police bodycam video. Police this week released the videos that completely confirm their account:

 

If you watch the whole video, you’ll see that the officer who was knocked unconscious by Knight repeatedly tells backup officers, “He knocked me out.” Knight then attacked the second officer, knocking him to the ground, and continued punching the second officer until the cop shot him. All of this happens very quickly after the first two cops arrived on the confusing scene, and you see the cops trying to defuse the situation — “step back” — and figure out what’s happening. “Move out of the way,” the cop tells Knight’s sister, who is interfering with the officers’ attempt to arrest Knight. When the cop tries to physically move her, Knight says, “Don’t you snatch my [obscenity] sister.” Twenty-three seconds later, while other guests are trying to restrain him, Knight punches the cop. About 10 seconds later, after the second cop deploys his taser (which had no effect), Knight gets fatally shot by the second cop.

This was entirely justified, and no grand jury in America would indict a cop for this incident. While it is likely that Winter Garden will end up paying Knight’s family to settle the inevitable wrongful death lawsuit, such settlements — which have become routine in such cases — don’t change the legal facts. It is always a crime to attack a cop. Danny Knight was probably facing no more than a misdemeanor drunk-and-disorderly charge that night, and if he would have cooperated peacefully, it’s unlikely he would have spent more than 12 hours in the county jail. When he punched the cop, however, that was almost certainly a felony, which would have sent him back to prison. From there on out, Knight’s actions can only be understood as a “suicide-by-cop.”

A civilized society must have rules, and these rules must be enforced. When a wedding reception turns into a drunken brawl, this is not the fault of police. When the police show up to arrest the disruptive guest, interfering with the police is not going to make the situation better.

Could anything have prevented this? I don’t know. Maybe don’t invite your jailbird uncle to the wedding? Or maybe do something to keep your jailbird uncle from getting so drunk at the reception? Or here’s a completely wild idea: Teach your kids to have respect for the police.

That cop has a pistol on his hip for a reason, you know.

The police officer is a representative of the community, sworn to uphold the law, and authorized to use force in the pursuit of that duty.

Disrespect for the police is disrespect for the law, and disrespect for the law should be offensive to every law-abiding citizen. We live in a representative form of government, and thus have the power to change our laws, and to choose those responsible for the job of law enforcement. However, when law enforcement officers show up to the scene of a reported crime — even a misdemeanor, like drunk-and-disorderly — the citizen has a duty to comply with the officer’s lawful orders.

When a cop tells you to “step back,” that’s not merely a suggestion.

If you punched a cop and got shot to death, don’t expect me to join any “social justice” protests in your memory. That’s your fault.




 

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