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In The Mailbox: 01.31.23

Posted on | February 1, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Can’t Bother With Criminals, But They Will Prosecute Self-Defense
EBL: Margaux
Twitchy: #GoogleLeaks Thread Tells #TwitterFiles To Hold Its Beer, Protesters Lose It As Chloe Cole Talks About Detransitioning, and Professional BS Artist Rachel Madcow Taken Apart In Thread Pointing Out Her Many, Many Lies
Louder With Crowder: Tennis player shuts down woke reporter so hard other athletes need to study her and take notes, Vegans find out what happens when they try stopping a poultry truck and the driver doesn’t give a f***, and Stephen Curry claims low-income housing next to his $30M mansion is a safety risk but next to YOUR house is okay
Vox Popoli: The Thumb on the Scale, Why We Call it Clown World, Advantage: Red China, Reconsidering Vaccines, and So Many Unanswered Questions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: DeSantis, Scourge Of Wokeness
American Greatness: Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Asks Democrat AG to Investigate Republican Kari Lake For Campaign Violations, also, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) Voluntarily Steps Down From Committee Assignments
American Thinker: Taking on the Would-be Destroyers of America, also, Is Donald Trump Worth The Fight?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Kooky California News
Babalu Blog: Imprisoned Cuban dissident rapper accused of planning a prison riot, Cubans and foreigners linked to regime take over state companies without competition, and 10,000 traffic accidents, 700 dead, thousands injured in Cuba during 2022
BattleSwarm: Jordan Peterson on Joe Rogan – 2023 Edition, also, Japan, The Netherlands Join Red China Semiconductor Ban
Behind The Black: Juno’s camera experiences temperature problem, Viewing the Green Comet, SpaceX successfully launches 49 Starlink satellites and a D-Orbit space tug, The next chapter in my own personal blacklisting story, and Today’s blacklisted American found innocent of federal trumped up charges
Cafe Hayek: Turns Out that People Such As Scott Atlas and Jay Bhattacharya Were Right All Along
CDR Salamander: Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVI
Chicago Boyz: ChatGPT and Fossil Fuels – An Update
Da Tech Guy: A journalistic trifecta, also, A small victory for sanity
Don Surber: Why Conservatives Oppose The War
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer scrubs race from its reporting . . . unless it’s politically useful, also, The only real winner of the Russo-Ukrainian War will be China
Gates Of Vienna: Munich – Peace For Our Time, Forced Marriages in France, Stockholm is Called to Prayer, Time for Everybody to Play Jab-Man, and An Appeal From Pamela Mastropietro’s Mother
The Geller Report: EMAIL BOMBSHELL – Hunter Biden Offered to Sell Intelligence on Russia To Alcoa Inc. for $55,000, also, Biden Regime Extends “Covid National Emergency” and “Public Health Emergency” To May 11
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Abell 2256
Hollywood In Toto: Salem Horror Fest Demands ‘LGBTQIA2S+’ Entries from Florida, Texas, also, Will Any Comedian Lay a Glove on Big Pharma (Now)?
The Lid: The Lies of Hulu’s 1619 Project Are Brutally Exposed By Historians, also, NYC’s Illegal Aliens Refuse to Give Up Luxury Hotels
Legal Insurrection: The Concept of ‘Harmful Words’ is a Serious Problem in Higher Education, Pfizer Responds to Project Veritas Video, Admitting to ‘Engineering’ Covid Variants in Lab Studies, Illinois School Worker Allegedly Stole $1.5 Million of Food, Mostly Chicken Wings, From District, Oklahoma State Superintendent Wants to Know What Public Universities are Spending on DEI, and DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities
Nebraska Energy Observer: How distant are we
Outkick: Michael Jordan’s Nike Earnings In 2022 More Than Doubled His Career NBA Money, Bomani Jones Tanks Even Further Week 2 On HBO, Doesn’t Rank On Cable Charts, 22-Year-Old High School Basketball Coach Fired After Impersonating 13-Year-Old Player, Dominating Teenagers In Wild Video, NFC Coach Calls Out Patrick Mahomes For ‘Flopping’ After Late Hit In AFC Title Game, and Fan Calls Out NBA Players’ B.S. Excuses With ‘Load Management Is A Rip Off’ Sign At Lakers-Nets Game
Power Line: Electrify Everything, But Without Copper, You Can’t Fool All the People, and A Vegan Day-Brightener
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – “COVID Is Over Now”
Shot In The Dark: What’s Ojibwe For “Buuuurn!”?, also, The Dicken Drill
The Political Hat: Symbol Of A Conquering Ideology – The Pride Flag
This Ain’t Hell: New Army personnel system working as expected, also, Leadership selection should be based on performance
Transterrestrial Musings: Twitter HQ, Iran And Russia, and The Unvaccinated
Victory Girls: Democrats Worried They’re Stuck With Kamala, also, MrBeast Blindness Video Reaction Shows Some Ugly
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Orders Unsealing Names of Non-Parent Sureties Who Put Up Bail for Samuel Bankman-Fried
Watts Up With That: Forget Net Zero – Oil and gas investment needed for another 30 years, BP warns, also, Feds push ignorance defense for whale killing by offshore wind development 
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Insinuates GOP Is Racist For Attempting To Remove Her From Committee, Biden Falsely Claims He Has Built An Economy That Helps Workers As Wages & Incomes Fall, and Racist Lib Whoopi Goldberg Says White People Need Beatings Before Police Reform
The Federalist: Local Congresswoman Accidentally Spends A Decade Being An Antisemite, Princeton Sophomore Says College Honor Code Prohibiting Cheating Is Racist, Utah Bill Barring Transgender Surgeries For Children Is Toothless, Are We Allowed To Consider Law Enforcement’s Side Of The Tyre Nichols Incident?, and Corporate Media Gives All Faithful Christians The Tony Dungy Treatment
Mark Steyn: The Cat Came Back

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You Can’t Run From ‘Air One’

Posted on | January 31, 2023 | 1 Comment

Zachary Teytlebaum

Just a few years ago, when he was a student at Father Lopez High School in Daytona Beach, Florida, Zachary Teytlebaum filled his Twitter feed with messages of determination to succeed as a football player, At 6-foot-3 and 255 pounds, Teytlebaum played defensive line for the “Green Wave” football team, but his hope of making a career of the game seems to have gone badly off-track. In November 2021, when he was 19 years old, Teytlebaum was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis with intent to sell. More recently, he has apparently had trouble making his child support payments, but he was behind the wheel of a Mercedes when he got blue-lighted Friday by Volusia County deputies on I-95. Teytlebaum fled north into Flagler County at triple-digit speeds, weaving in and out of traffic, passing on the shoulder and generally making himself a hazard to other motorists. What Teytlebaum evidently didn’t realize was that the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department had its “Air One” helicopter overhead, tracking his every move, so that it was well-nigh impossible for him to escape. After he exited the interstate north of Ormond Beach, he was driving too fast to navigate the turn and skidded off the road, tearing the bumper off his Mercedes. Still, he continued, heading north on John Anderson Highway toward Flagler Beach before he saw Flagler County deputies waiting for him with “stop sticks,” at which point he stopped and surrendered. As he was being handcuffed and led toward the deputy’s car, the following exchange took place:

Teytlebaum: “I ain’t did do sh**!” . . .
Deputy: “You’re under arrest.”
Teytlebaum: “For what?”
Deputy: “Fleeing and eluding . . .”
Teytlebaum: “I got a warrant.”
Deputy: “OK, then if you’ve got a warrant . . .”
Teytlebaum: “I’m asking, do I have . . .”
Deputy: “We don’t know who you are. How do we know if you’ve got a warrant?”
Teytlebaum: “I’m asking you, do I have a warrant? I fled because I thought I had a child support warrant. What the f***?”
Deputy: “That doesn’t give you an excuse to run.”
Teytlebaum: “Yes, it do!”

Well, I’m not sure what students are taught at Father Lopez High School, but I’m pretty sure they’re not taught that fleeing from police at 100 mph is legal, if you think you’ve got a child support warrant.

 

Teytlebaum was booked into jail on $5,000 bond. On their Twitter account, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department asked, “Why try and outrun Air One?” That’s what’s known as a rhetorical question.



 

 

Category: Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 01.30.23

Posted on | January 31, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: They Couldn’t Be Bothered To Stop A School Shooting
EBL: Narvik, Gerard Van der Leun, RIP, and Bobby Hull, RIP
Twitchy: Liberal Hoopster Stephen Curry Takes NIMBY To A Whole New Level, also, Vegan Activists Try To Stop 18-Wheeler – Hilarity Ensues
Louder With Crowder: Finland debuts world’s first beautiful and brave trans figure skater – except they can’t skate, Drag queen toasts ‘those who lick us where we pee’ as little kids pick money up off the floor, and Bill Gates Defends Ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Claims He Just ‘Had Dinner’ With Him
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Read Your Own Book, Pfizer’s Non-Denial, NATO Calls the Shots, and When the Plan Fails
Stoic Observations: Rethinking Race
Gab News: The Conservative Case For The Great Replacement?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Gary Voris wants you to know that his is the only trustworthy Catholic news outlet
American Conservative: Against Cricket Cakes, also, The Dangers of Ukrainian Revanchism
American Greatness: MIT Professor Calls For an Immediate Halt to ‘Failing’ mRNA Vaccination Programs, Pennsylvania Jury Finds Pro-Life Activist NOT GUILTY on Biden Regime’s FACE Act Charges, The West Is Prosecuting Its Crusade Against Russia with Stunning Naïveté, and Anarchy, American-Style
American Power: Christopher Rufo at New College, Sarasota, Florida
American Thinker: Tracking a Fraudulent Ballot in Real Time, also, Straight Talk on the Latest Riots
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban-American entrepreneur who profited from cooperating with dictatorship found dead in Cuban lagoon, Cuba sets its sights on Peru, Shocking! Cuban billboard tries very hard to justify apartheid tourism, and Cuban State Security prevents mothers of political prisoners from attending church services
BattleSwarm: The Latest, Greatest Russian Vaporware Coming To Ukraine, also, California Hates Your Freedom So Much They Want To Tax You For Leaving
Behind The Black: Curiosity looking back, A cloud on Mars, and Today’s blacklisted American: Professor quits because of the leftist takeover of his college
Cafe Hayek: Trust the ‘Experts’?, Broken Compass, and Choosing to Be Part of the Global Market Economy
CDR Salamander: The People’s Liberation Army Navy in 2023, with Toshi Yoshihara – on Midrats, also, Denial May Bring War – Punishment May Keep it at Bay
Chicago Boyz: A Serious Temptation, also, Two Views on Red China
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora, If you’re rusting at the pier when nobody is shooting at you, and More Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Trump Attacks DeSantis For Following His Advice
Don Surber: Enough With Black History Month, With All Due Respect, I Am Against Dumb, Highlights of the News January 28, and Highlights of the News Ends
First Street Journal: Philly’s Mother of the Year, Did treating Edwin Vargas leniently do him any favors?, and Layoffs at the Inky
Gates Of Vienna: Machete Jihad in Algeciras (Update), Viktor Orbán on the Escalation of War, Lock the Barn Door!, and Marcel de Graaff: “The EU is Becoming a Dwarf in a Multi-Polar World”
The Geller Report: Meta-Facebook Welcomes Ukraine’s Nazi Azov Regiment Back on Platform, ‘Young, Healthy’: Famed Olympic Bobsledder and Rugby Player Suddenly Dies at 35, and MASSIVE CORRUPTION SCANDAL: Top Ukrainian Officials Resign After Blowing Billions of US Dollars on Cars, Mansions, and Vacations
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Mimas Plays Peekaboo, Happy 90th Birthday, John Reid!, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: You People Traffics In Progressive Guilt, Lack of Laughter, The Masculinity Crisis and the Death of the Hollywood Hero, and Why Horror Movies Are Having a Moment
The Lid: Hanoi Jane Fonda Blames Climate Change on ‘Racism’, also, Schiff Still Lying About Russia Hoax–CNN Calls Out His Lie
Legal Insurrection: Prostitution and Human Trafficking Are Exploding in Los Angeles, Judge Temporarily Blocks California’s Covid ‘Misinformation’ Law That Punishes Physicians For ‘Wrongthink’, #TwitterFiles – Twitter Execs Knew The Russian Misinformation Hysteria Was Based On A Dubious Source, Left-wing Activists Pressure American Bar Association Not To Adopt Widely-Accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism, and Jury Acquits Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck of Federal Assault Charges at Abortion Clinic
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is…, The Transfiguration of Our Lord, and Churchill’s Wisdom
Outkick: Media Reminds Everyone Of Bobby Hull’s Troubled Past The Day He Dies, But No One Dared Do That To Kobe Bryant, The NFL Has A Referee Problem And It Reared Its Ugly Head During Both Games On Championship Sunday, Greg Olsen’s Detailed Breakdown Of Eagles RPOs Leaves Viewers Wanting More Of Fox’s Top Color Commentator, Bengals Youth And Confidence Backfired When ‘Burrowhead’ Jabs Reached Chiefs, and NBA Refs Call LeBron James’ Non-Foul A ‘Gut-Wrenching’ Moment After Full Day of Whining From Lakers Fans
Power Line: The Pelosi attack tapes, Loose Ends (204), and Mathematx
Shark Tank: Buchanan, Wassermann-Schultz Introduce Bipartisan Human Trafficking Bill
Shot In The Dark: Urban Progressive Privilege – “The Word Means What I Say It Means, Also, It Doesn’t Exist”, also,  Evidence
The Political Hat: Pesky Real Life and the Dearth of Recent Posts, also, Communist Chinese Co-Parent or Mao’s Children
This Ain’t Hell: USAF 4-star predicts war with Red China in 2025, Drone strike inside Iran, Short take Monday – Mikey, Lindh, NIH, Americans helping Ukrainians in the combat theater via the Internet, and No Spares for Ukraine
Transterrestrial Musings: The Anniversary, Starship Performance Update, The Coming “Symbolic Analyst” Meltdown, Russian Oligarchs In Ukraine, and Mark Steyn
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden E-mail Raises More Suspicion, Teacher Solicits Donations To Pay ‘Coyote’ For Human Trafficking, and Woke Salon at Stage II over “Grooming”
Volokh Conspiracy: Suddenly, everyone is gunning for Google
Watts Up With That: Intersectional Climate Scientist Goes on Rant Against ‘White Men’, The Climate Alarmist’s Greatest Fear, and Green Energy – Don’t Stick Granny with the Bill
Weasel Zippers: WH Brags “We’re Seeing Almost 11 Jobs Created Under This President”, Law Enforcement Official Blasts Race Claims Over Tyre Nichols’ Arrest In Memphis, Antisemite Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Claims “I Wasn’t Aware ‘There Are Tropes About Jews And Money’ ”, and After Mass Shooting, Israel Moves To EXPAND Civilian Access To Guns
The Federalist: You People Is So Aggressively Stupid It’s Difficult To Be Offended, New Emails Suggest Twitter Misled Public On ‘Hamilton 68’ Data Pushing Russia Hoax, Without Black Lives Matter, Tyre Nichols Might Not Have Died In Memphis Last Week, Supreme Court’s Cowardice Allows Colorado To Keep Persecuting Christians, and The Left Wants To Take Your Truck Because It’s Big And Scary
Mark Steyn: Love in a Time of Plenty: Judy Holliday and The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Lady Is a Tramp, and Back from the Dead

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Rule 5 Sunday: 2B or not 2B

Posted on | January 30, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I haven’t gotten around to playing my copy yet, but Nier:Automata has a reputation for being an outstanding game, and one of the major reasons -aside from the intricate plot, switches in gameplay between hack & slash action and roleplaying, and switches between video game genres- is the heroine, combat android 2B. For obvious reasons, 2B has become a favorite character for cosplayers; here she’s depicted by cosplayer Alice Bong.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1974, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Davos Friday and the return of the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EVIL BLOGGERLADY: MAGA – Mike & Hunter & Joe, The Jolly Rogers – Captain Morgan, Pandorum, Burns Night Rule 5, Ladies In Black, Year of the Rabbit, Wisconsin Exceptionalism, and MAGA – Democrat Knives Out For Biden. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Jen Selter, Fish Pic Friday – Cheyenne DaSilva, You May No Longer Say Someone is Outstanding in their Field, Tattoo Thursday, Science is Dead, Long Live Science!, Wednesday Wetness, Is Wind Power Killing Whales?, Breaking Clocks, The Monday Morning Stimulus, More Biden Secret Files Wash Up, Klain Files for Divorce, and Sunday Sunrise

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Farewell To A Master

Posted on | January 29, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As most of you probably know by now, Gerard Vanderleun has left this vale of tears for a better place. For those of you who don’t, I suggest a long stroll through the pages of American Digest, his blog. It will be well worth your time. Like many others, I didn’t know him except through his writing; for reasons I have now forgotten, I made the decision early in not to link his blog in the weekday linkfests because I figured that he was sufficiently well known in the right half of the blogosphere that he didn’t need the eyeballs I could send him. I have few regrets regarding how I’ve handled In The Mailbox, but that is definitely one of them. His will be done, sir; hopefully I’ll meet you at last, on the other side.

On a less grim note, this is the week Mike at Proof Positive has decided to hang up the keyboard. We’ll miss you, dude. 
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Gerard Vanderleun, 12/26/1945-1/27/2023. RIP

In The Mailbox: 01.24.23
Okrahead
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.25.23
Okrahead
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

The Penn Scandal: Ivy League University Was Funnel for Biden’s Chinese Cash
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Well, This Is Scary: Idaho Killer’s Motive May Be Unanswered Instagram DMs
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL

THE ATLANTA RIOT: Out-of-State Anarchists Torch Police Vehicle
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Gina Lollobrigida, RIP
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

In The Mailbox: 01.23.22
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

The World’s Best Coffee?
357 Magnum
EBL

Documents Here! Documents There! Classified Documents Everywhere!
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

SMOKING GUN: Did Hunter Biden Use Classified Documents for Foreign $$$$? 
Okrahead
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.23
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

State of Emergency: Gov. Kemp Issues Order to Deal With Atlanta Rioters
The DaleyGator
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.27.23
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 27:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach & 357 Magnum (10)
  3.  Okrahead (6)
  4.  Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for the links!

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The Diversity of ‘White Supremacy’

Posted on | January 28, 2023 | 2 Comments

When I first heard that there was a controversy about a black man being beaten to death by police in Memphis, I certainly did not expect to discover all the cops were black:

Five Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder, among other charges, in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols, who died three days after being stopped by the officers.
Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, died on January 10, three days after Memphis police officers stopped him for “reckless driving.”
A “confrontation occurred” between Nichols and the police officers when he was stopped around 8:30 p.m. on January 7, according to an initial statement released by authorities.
However, “another confrontation occurred,” while officers attempted to take Nichols into custody.
“While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred; however, the suspect was ultimately apprehended,” the Memphis Police Department said. “Afterward the suspect complained of having shortness of breath, at which point an ambulance was called to the scene.”
Nichols was transported to St. Francis Hospital, where he was reportedly in critical condition before dying days later.
Notably, Memphis Police Department officers Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, and Justin Smith are all black.

Everybody was waiting for the police bodycam video to be released, and what it shows is . . . Don’t resist arrest in Memphis.

Also, while we’re dishing out advice here, let me suggest that if you’re driving a stolen KIA in Arkansas, don’t run from police in a high-speed pursuit that ends in a fiery fatal crash. (Video here.) By the way, I don’t even know what race the car thief in that case was except, well, after someone gets roasted in a gasoline fire, what’s left of them is black, no matter what race they were before they got roasted.

Excuse me for being sarcastic about matters of life and death, but if sarcasm was a crime, I’d be a habitual offender. Sarcasm is my response to everything, especially tragic circumstances over which I have no control. Do I want people to die because they resisted arrest or fled at 130 mph in a KIA? No, this is not what I want, but these people don’t seek my advice before they do the things that get them killed, so what happens to them is not my responsibility. That was my basic reaction to the whole George Floyd thing. All the white liberals were running around shouting mea culpa and I was like, “OK, culpa tua non est mea.”

How can I be to blame for what cops do in Minneapolis? The only time I was ever in Minneapolis was three days in a hotel for a conference more than 10 years ago. Yet you had white liberals all over the country declaring themselves guilty of racism — complicit in systemic oppression — because of what happened to this guy in Minneapolis, who magically obtained civil rights sainthood merely because he died in police custody.

If everybody is to blame, nobody is to blame — what this progressive rhetoric about “systemic racism” does is to absolve people of responsibility for what they actually do in their own lives, by extending the blame to the vast abstraction of “society,” so that innocent people who are simply minding their own business can be guilt-tripped for unfortunate events in which they are not involved. And if you refuse to play along with this game, if you don’t cooperate with the demand that you blame yourself for other people’s problems, the Left will interpret this as conclusive proof that you’re guilty of “white supremacy.”

There is no court to which you can appeal this conviction, because the mere accusation is sufficient to destroy anyone’s career and reputation, which is why so many people tiptoe around uncomfortable topics so as to avoid expressing any opinion that might offend a liberal. There’s a lot of white silence on the subject of race whenever we are compelled to listen to angry lectures on the subject, because nearly all white people are afraid to criticize the Al Sharptons and Ben Crumps of the world.

Maybe the families of these five black police officers in Memphis will have a “road to Damascus” experience as a result of having Ben Crump show up for his usual media circus before scoring another big payday for 50% of whatever multimilllion-dollar settlement the city of Memphis pays out in the subsequent civil-rights lawsuit. Maybe some of them will realize what a crooked hustle Crump is operating, and this realization might cause them to reconsider the propriety of the White Guilt Industrial Complex, within which Crump has made his fortune.

Is it too much to hope that black people might finally figure out that they’re being played for chumps in this three-card monte game? Perhaps, but the alternative to optimism is despair and, as a great man once advised, “It is history that teaches us to hope.” So I’ll keep hoping despite every discouraging incident, and will keep offering helpful advice, e.g., “Don’t resist arrest in Memphis.”



 

 

Category: Crime, Racism, Tennessee

In The Mailbox: 01.27.23

Posted on | January 28, 2023 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Coming to you from The Northern Resource Area Field HQ for at least the next two weeks…
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Pandorum, also, Crickets – It’s What’s For Dinner
Twitchy: Van Jones – Cops Charged With Tyre Nichols Are Black But “Might Have Been Driven By Racism”, also, French Embassy Makes Hilarious Mockery Of AP Stylebook’s Now-Deleted Style Guide Update
Louder With Crowder: “I’m Literally a Liar”, also, Tim Allen’s TV wife defends actor and sets record straight on what really happened when he showed off under his kilt
Vox Popoli: Secret Stalker Society, Clown World Conservatives, and No Part of It
According To Hoyt: Ask, Heaven And Hell, Jokes and Conspiracies, and Cleanup Crew
Monster Hunter Nation: In Defense of the Second Amendment, release week!, I wrote an article about the ATF’s new brace rule for Townhall, WriterDojo S4 E3 – Westerns, and Anti-Gunners explain why you should buy In Defense of the Second Amendment
Gab News: Christians Must Enter The AI Arms Race

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Our Glorious Leaders
American Conservative: Shhh! Nobody Talk About World War III, also, Biden’s Proposed Federal Takeover of Rental Markets
American Greatness: January 6 Was the Worst Incident of Police Brutality Since Civil Rights Era, Inside the Nazi Whitewash of Ukraine, Capturing the Presidency Without a Vote, and Pfizer Research and Development Director Has Meltdown When Confronted About Project Veritas Video
American Thinker: Electric Vehicles Are an Ideologically Driven Economic Misadventure, How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of Life, and I, Fentanyl
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Davos Friday
Babalu Blog: Over 22,000 head of cattle died of starvation in communist Cuba in 2022, More than 50 Cuban opposition groups call on Biden to not negotiate with the Castro dictatorship, Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández, éminence grise of Cuba’s totalitarian dictatorship, and Power blackouts in Cuba increase as food shortages worsen
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 27
Behind The Black: The twin asteroid Janus probes, stranded by Psyche delay, might go to Apophis, Glaciers or taffy on Mars?, and Today’s blacklisted American: Jesus painting at U.S. Merchant Marine Academy covered to avoid offending others
Cafe Hayek: Antitrust Confusion, I Say Again – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, and The Cost of Shipping Is Accounted for In the Retail Price
Chicago Boyz: “How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders under the (Musk) Bus”
Da Tech Guy: Mike Pence Lifeline is Biden not the Dems
Dana Loesch: The Paul Pelosi Hammer Attack Videos Are Out
Don Surber: Influencer-enza, also, Highlights of the News
First Street Journal: As the activists try to force everyone into electric heat, have they considered what this will do to electricity bills?, also, Would you believe that reading the ‘wrong’ book can get you in trouble at Stanford?
Gates Of Vienna: Let Them Eat Chicken Feet, “A Measure That Legitimizes Law-Breaking”, and Hungarians in Trans-Carpathia: “Everyone is Afraid”
The Geller Report: Top George Soros Director has Frequent Biden White House Access, Records Show, also, Died Suddenly – Ex-Detroit Lions Linebacker Jessie Lemonier Dies at Age 25
Hogewash: Congratulations, Ali, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and V 372 Orionis
Hollywood In Toto: Landau’s Normal World Challenges Comedic Status Quo, also, Liberal Media Wake Up to Horrors of Woke (But Is It Too Late?)
The Lid: Special K – Press Secretary And Rain Man
Legal Insurrection: Math “White Cisheteropatriarchy” Word Salad By Vanderbilt Prof Is What Gets Rewarded In Academia, PA Gov. Josh Shapiro Removes Four-Year Degree Requirement ‘From 92% of Government Jobs’, Ronna McDaniel Wins Fourth Term as RNC Chairwoman, Palestinian Gunman Kills 7 Jewish Worshipers, Injures 10 in Terror Attack at East Jerusalem Synagogue, and Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips Loses Appeal Over Transgender Transition Celebration Cake
Nebraska Energy Observer: Something a bit Different
Outkick: Skip Bayless – Carolina Panthers Players Should Boycott Playing Over Steve Wilks Not Being Hired, Richard Jefferson Shares Powerful Personal Story While Criticizing The NBA’s Load Management Problem, Deion Sanders Shares Heartwarming Moment With Elderly Colorado Superfan, Women’s College Basketball Coach Is Out Of A Job Over This Rant, and Announcer Billy Packer, Who Worked Over 30 Straight Final Fours, Dead At 82
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Pat Buchanan testifies, and Where You Gonna Put Those Wind Turbines?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Spokesman Goes Nuclear On Loaded CNN Inquiry
Shot In The Dark: The “Party Of Science” In Action, also, Four Or Five Times Bitten
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Suspected prowler was decades-long Navy deserter, and Woman scams 2.8 million from Holocaust survivor
Transterrestrial Musings: De-Aging, Los Angeles, Free The Meat, and After Ten Years
Victory Girls: Andrew Cuomo Goes To Bat For Alec Baldwin, also, Ronna McDaniel Is RNC Chair…AGAIN
Volokh Conspiracy: Lawsuit Over Blocking of Portland State Prof. Bruce Gilley from @UOEquity Twitter Feed Can Go Forward
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State of Emergency: Gov. Kemp Issues Order to Deal With Atlanta Rioters

Posted on | January 27, 2023 | 2 Comments

He’s ready to call up 1,000 National Guard troops:

In the wake of a shooting between Antifa terrorists and law enforcement at the site of a future public safety training facility and domestic terrorist activity in downtown Atlanta, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) declared a 15-day state of emergency that allows him to call up the National Guard to deal with these out-of-town insurgents if need be.
Kemp wrote in his five-page executive order:

WHEREAS: In consultation with public safety officials and emergency preparedness officials, I have determined that the following actions are necessary and appropriate to protect public peace and provide for the safety and welfare of Georgia’s citizens, visitors, and property.
NOW, THEREFORE, PURSUANT TO THE AFOREMENTIONED GEORGIA LAW, CODE SECTION 38-3-51, CODE SECTION 45-12-29, AND THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED: That because of unlawful assemblage, violence, overt threats of violence, disruption of the peace and tranquility of this state and danger existing to persons and property, a State of Emergency is declared in the State of Georgia.

The order comes as tensions could ratchet back up this weekend after five Memphis police officers face murder charges in the beating death of a suspect.
“The continued anti-police movement in Atlanta could also be further enflamed by the charging of five former Memphis police officers with second-degree murder and other crimes in the arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who died three days after a traffic stop confrontation,” reports Fox 5. “Body camera video of the incident is expected to be released on Friday evening.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) The connection to the Memphis situation makes no sense. The five cops charged with killing Tyre Nichols? All of them are black. Where’s the “systemic racism” angle in that story? What are they protesting against? But some people just hate cops so much they’ll start a riot over a parking ticket, which is what the “activist” mob in Atlanta is all about — hating cops, period. As I explained previously (“THE ATLANTA RIOT: Out-of-State Anarchists Torch Police Vehicle”), the riot Saturday night was clearly pre-planned by the same left-wing scumbags who organized the so–called “peaceful protest.”

John Sexton at Hot Air examines how media reporting on the so-called “forest defenders” repeats the activists’ propaganda narrative, without even acknowledging the underlying myth of this “forest.” Google the term “Weelaunee Forest” and you’ll get about 20,000 results, none of which date prior to 2021; that’s because this term was invented by the activists to create the impression of a pristine indigenous wilderness, e.g.:

“Forests are the lungs of planet Earth,” Defend the Forest stated. “The destruction of forests affects all of us. So do the gentrification and police violence that the bulldozing of Weelaunee Forest would facilitate.” . . .
As explained by Defend the Forest, thousands of years ago, the Weelaunee Forest was stewarded by the Muscogee (Creek) people, but it was stolen from them over the course of centuries “through genocide and dispossession.”

As previously explained (“Dear Antifa Terrorists: Please Go to Georgia, So Cops Can Kill All of You”), the proposed 85-acre site of the Atlanta police training facility is part of a larger 300-plus-acre property that, beginning in the 1920s, was the site of the Atlanta Prison Farm. The “forest” is just a lot of second-growth timber that sprung up in recent decades after the old Prison Farm was abandoned. And there’s so much more to be said about this activist/media propaganda mythology:

If there is another riot in Atlanta, much of the responsibility will belong to the media, because of their idiotic repetition of the activist propaganda narrative. The belief that these “forest defenders” are protecting some kind of sacred indigenous territory is false and ultimately dangerous.



 

 

Category: Crime, Environmentalism, Georgia, Terrorism
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