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FMJRA 2.0: Somebody

Posted on | March 6, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Somebody

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not a bad week for the Senators – split two two-game series against the White Sox and Cardinals respectively, so we still have a shot at .500. Not much of a shot, but a shot. Amazing what good starting pitching can achieve. Also, if you’re interested in getting an expansion team in this league contact Pete over at Da Tech Guy’s blog.
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UKRAINE: Kyiv Survives Another Day
A View From The Beach
EBL

What a Real President Looks Like
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

The Blessings of St. Javelin
The Political Hat
A View From The Beach
EBL

Listen to the Experts!
EBL

Our Feeble-Minded Commander-in-Chief
EBL

The Science™ Is Actually The Politics™
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

War and the Meaning of Nationhood
EBL
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Infamous Race Hustler Uses Ukraine War to — You Guessed It — Hustle Race
The First Street Journal
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 03.02.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.03.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.03.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous
EBL
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Teetering on the Brink
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In The Mailbox: 03.04.22
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Proof Positive

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What ‘Intellectuals’ Believe

Posted on | March 6, 2022 | Comments Off on What ‘Intellectuals’ Believe

Elie Mystal Jr. is the son of a Haitian immigrant. His father became a politician in Suffolk County, N.Y., whose “tenure as a county lawmaker ended in 2008 after he faced charges that he lied about living in the district in 2007 and 2008, a period during which he was splitting his time between Huntington Station, which was outside the district, and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He was sentenced to five years of probation and was ordered to pay $84,300 in restitution.” The younger Mystal attended Harvard, where he graduated in 2000 and got a law degree in 2003.

Having been educated at an elite private university, of course, Elie Mystal is filled with hatred for the United States:

The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that the United States Constitution is “trash” written by slave-owning white people.
Discussing his new book “Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution,” Mystal said, “Republicans are obviously trying to manipulate those laws, particularly the rights of minorities, women, and the LGBTQ communities, and I explain it in ways we can understand so we can fight them.”
Co-host Ana Navarro said, “I live in Florida, so I’m, like, on ground zero of where all of this is happening. I’m out of my mind about the bills banning conversations about race and ethnicity and LGBTQ, just even mentioning gender identity in primary schools…Are you arguing for throwing out the Constitution? Should the Constitution be thrown out? What do we do? Is it a living document, or is it a sacred document?”
Mystal said, “It’s certainly not sacred. Let’s start there. The Constitution is kind of trash. Again, let’s just talk as adults for a second.”
Co-host Joy Behar said, “What did you say?”
Mystal said, “It’s kind of trash. It was written by slavers and colonists and white people willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn’t ask anybody who looked like me what they thought about the Constitution.”
He added, “This document was without the consent of black and brown people in this country and without the consent of women. I say if that was the starting point, the very least we can do is ignore what those slavers and colonists and misogynists thought and interpret the Constitution in a way that makes sense for our modern world.”

Note that Ana Navaro, the daughter of a wealthy Nicaraguan family, is only an American because her family was granted asylum while fleeing the Sandinistas. She repays our national generosity by trashing the country, expressing ridiculous concerns that the Florida legislature is denying public school children their opportunity to be indoctrinated with Critical Race Theory and LGBTQ propaganda. And as for Elie Mystal’s comments about the Constitution as “trash,” does this Harvard-educated intellectual not realize that he is implicitly endorsing the arguments against racial equality made by, e.g., Jefferson Davis?

“Mr. President, the propositions, both the main one contained in the bill and that contained in the amendment, I think, rest on two fundamental errors: in the first place, that our Government was instituted for eleemosynary purposes, and in the next place, that it was instituted for a mixed race. This Government was not founded by negroes nor for negroes, but by white men for white men. It was not founded for eleemosynary purposes, but as an agent of the States; and there is no right to take one dollar from the Treasury to appropriate it to public schools. . . .
“The errors are fundamental on which the bill rests; and these errors have been developed by the alliance which it has brought from the other side, developing, as a consequence of the very proposition, this controversy as to the rights of whites, and the equality of the negroes. I do not choose to argue with any one who thinks proper to assert the equality of the negro and the white man. The man who makes the assertion may prove to me his equality with the negro. He proves to me no more; and I accept his argument only for so much.” [Emphasis added.]
— Sen. Jefferson Davis, April 12, 1860

Asserting that our government was founded “by white men for white men” — how is this different from Elie Mystal’s argument? Does the Harvard-educated intellectual wish us to conclude that Jefferson Davis was right? He might succeed in persuading us, however inadvertently.

If the cost of achieving “equality” is to discard our Constitution as “trash,” and to degrade our Founders as unworthy of consideration — if we must ignore those slavers, as Mystal insists — then how many Americans will conclude that this is bad bargain? The consequences of this are perhaps too frightening to imagine, yet seem not to have occurred to Elie Mystal, nor to the producers of “The View” who invited him on ABC to promote his noxious views. Can anyone imagine “The View” inviting on a white guest to express equally controversial opinions? While I’m sure Jared Taylor or Peter Brimelow would accept the invitation — there’s no such thing as bad publicity — dissident whites are not given the red-carpet treatment that the liberal media extends to black dissidents.

There seems to be a belief, among a certain type of liberal, that black radicals must be allowed to spew hateful nonsense as a sort of “release valve” for whatever grievances and resentments might exist in the black community. These grievances are assumed to be inherently legitimate — the Harvard-educated son of a New York politician is so obviously oppressed, after all — whereas it is considered impossible that white people might have legitimate grievances with the current state of race relations in America. And the next time some deranged cracker goes off on a shooting rampage after posting his neo-Nazi “manifesto” on Facebook, who will be invited onto “The View” to discuss this bloody tragedy? Well, it won’t be Peter Brimelow, that’s for sure. Merely to name him is to risk the accusation of dangerous “extremism,” even though Brimelow doesn’t habitually denounce the Constitution as “trash.”

It would be dangerous for “The View” to host Brimelow, you see, because the producers would not want to be responsible for what might happen if millions of their viewers found themselves agreeing with Brimelow, yet they’ll have on someone like Elie Mystal as if his opinions are harmless. If that’s the attitude they’re going to take — that even the most extreme views ought to be given a hearing, so long as the person espousing them is black — then why don’t the producers of “The View” book as a guest Augustus Claudius Romain, Jr., a/k/a “Gazi Kodzo”?


If it’s black radicalism they want, why not give ’em the real thing? But of course, Gazi Kodzo doesn’t have a Harvard diploma, so he won’t get a shot at peddling his flavor of racial insanity to ABC daytime audiences, whereas Elie Mystal — though arguably just as deranged — is OK.

Meanwhile, on the West Coast . . .

UC Berkeley Prof. Zeus Leonardo:
Abolish Whiteness, Abolish White People

He’s employed at taxpayer expense:

Zeus Leonardo made $248,514 in total compensation. Of this total $166,933 was received as a salary, $53,159 was received as benefits and $28,422 came from other types of compensation . This information is according to University of California payrolls for the 2019 fiscal year.

Being an intellectual can be a very lucrative racket.




 

Category: ABC, Constitution, Intellectuals, Racism

Never Take Military Advice From (Or Give Money to) #NeverTrump Grifters

Posted on | March 5, 2022 | Comments Off on Never Take Military Advice From (Or Give Money to) #NeverTrump Grifters

What’s weird about Rick Wilson is that most people never heard of him until Twitter came along, but the consulting game is so lucrative that lots of people you never heard of collect fat paychecks. Wilson first came onto my radar as a Twitter personality associated with the Tea Party circa 2009, but he had a history before that:

Wilson played a significant role in the 2002 United States Senate election in Georgia, in which Saxby Chambliss was facing Democratic Party Senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran and recipient of the Silver Star. Wilson helped make an ad that criticized Cleland, while also tying him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. The ad appeared to question Cleland’s patriotism.

As political crackback blocks go, that was one of the most brutal hits in recent memory, and was part of the shocking 2002 midterm where Republicans reversed the historic trend by actually gaining seats. The GOP machine was firing on all cylinders in those post-911 days and it would have been inconceivable to most of us at the time that, in 2006, Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats would win the congressional majority and that a guy named Barack Obama would be elected president in 2008. The spiraling downward trajectory of the Republican Party from its peak of influence to the depths of the early Obama years is a phenomenon for which Rick Wilson and his colleagues have never been called to account. We’re supposed to forget this as ancient history, irrelevant to the current political landscape. However, when the #NeverTrump brigade claim a devotion to “principle,” and assert that their goal is to restore the “norms” of our political life, one is inspired to wonder exactly what “principles” and “norms” they have in mind. Another campaign for the conquest and occupation of Mesopotamia, perhaps? Imputations of treason against political opponents? Most recently, Wilson has tried his hand at offering bad military advice, suggesting “that America could transfer A10s to Ukraine, and [pilot] contractors could fly them in combat.”

Everybody who has seen that long Russian column stretching for miles down toward Kyiv understands what a perfect target it would be for the famous “tankbuster” A10 Warthog, the most innovative air-to-ground weapon since the Stuka divebomber. But as Jim Thompson explains, the scheme of sending A10s to Ukraine on a sort of lend-lease arrangement is unworkable for several reasons. The A10 requires extensive backup in terms of experienced ground crews and so forth that simply can’t be transferred to another country in the way that Javelin missiles can.

Such is the power of war fever, however, that Rick Wilson’s tactically impossible suggestion got nearly 600 likes and 6,000 retweets from his Twitter following. And anyone who points out the folly of Wilson’s suggestion will be accused of being a Traitorous Putin Stooge.

This is essentially what Wilson said in his recent appearance on a Salon-dot-com video podcast: “Putin has this deep appeal to the modern Republican Party because he believes in power, he believes in wealth, he believes in control.” Wilson added bluntly, the GOP “have become very friendly to dictatorship, to authoritarianism … people like Putin.”

Sure, Rick. Just like Max Cleland was a Saddam Hussein fanboy.

The “norms” and “principles” to which #NeverTrump profess devotion turn out to be difficult to define beyond an ironclad certainty of their own intellectual and moral superiority to anyone who disagrees with them.

Just last night, by the way, I was discussing with my brother the possibility that the Ukrainians could find some way to hit that long Russian column. It struck me that one of the reasons the Russians might have decided to launch their invasion in late February — rather than waiting for May, as more traditional doctrine would suggest — is that by attacking in winter, they deny the Ukrainians the concealment of hiding in forests. You look at those satellite images of the convoy strung out along a single highway and notice that there are forested approaches which might be used by the Ukrainians to stage an attack on the Russians, but there are no leaves on the trees, and so an attacking force would be sitting ducks, at least in daylight. Nevertheless, I’m sure the Ukrainian military leadership must be trying to figure out some way to hit that convoy, like Stonewall Jackson hit Pope’s supply line during the Second Manassas campaign. The only hope for Ukraine is to make a daring counterattack before the Russians can get everything in place for a siege of Kyiv, and smashing that Russian supply convoy would obviously be an objective of such a counterattack. Alas, hope is not a strategy, and a realistic assessment of Ukraine’s situation does not inspire optimism.

Those of us who, on the one hand, are praying that Ukraine can miraculously defeat the Russians but, on the other hand, know that there are limits to how much the U.S. and its allies can assist the Ukrainians without risking World War III, are expected to yield the floor to Rick Wilson and his dumbass schemes, because to criticize Rick Wilson is to be an accomplice of authoritarianism. The brilliant thing about the #NeverTrump hustle is how their rhetoric makes them personally synonymous with “norms” and “principles” and “democracy,” so that any possibility of sincere disagreement is automatically excluded.

If I say I am pro-X and anti-Y — if I strive to make myself a prominent spokesman for these positions, celebrating them as a sacred cause — then it is logical to infer that my critics are anti-X and pro-Y. This logic works reasonably well if X and Y refer to specific policy positions, but when the likes of Rick Wilson start attaching this logic to nebulous abstractions like “democracy,” so that choosing between Democrats and Republicans becomes a moral referendum, with opposition to Democrats categorized as “authoritarian,” this becomes a crude hustle that can deceive no intelligent or reasonably well-educated person.

But hey, let’s talk about those True Conservative™ principles:

Y’know, I might feel sympathy for the people who got swindled by McMullin, but fools and their money are soon parted, and if any fools ever deserved to be fleeced and ripped off, it was #NeverTrump fools.

(Hat-tips: Evil Blogger Lady, Instapundit, Ace of Spades.)




 

Category: Politics

Ukraine: Russia Agrees to Temporary Cease-Fire in Besieged Mariupol

Posted on | March 5, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine: Russia Agrees to Temporary Cease-Fire in Besieged Mariupol

Breaking news overnight:

Russia said Saturday it was observing a temporary cease-fire in the key Ukrainian port city Mariupol, which it has besieged for days, to allow the creation of humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians.
The cease-fire went into effect at 2 a.m. E.T. and will cover both Mariupol and the smaller nearby city Volnovakha, Russia’s ministry of defense said.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Twitter that the evacuation corridors were being prepared and that a cease-fire was in effect in those areas. Mariupol’s city council said evacuations would begin at 4 a.m. ET and last until the end of the cease-fire at 9 a.m. ET.
The move comes after a second round of talks between the two countries earlier this week produced an agreement on the issue, though no progress on a broader cease-fire or end to Moscow’s attack on its democratic neighbor.
For days Russia has encircled and bombarded Mariupol, a large southeastern city on the Azov Sea, hitting critical infrastructure leaving it without water, heat or electricity.
The strategically important city has remained in Ukrainian hands, but the city council accused Russia of creating a “humanitarian catastrophe” and hindering the supply of food.

The southern front is where Russia has made the most gains.




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine

In The Mailbox: 03.04.22

Posted on | March 5, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.04.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Also available at Pawn Stars Kiev office: slightly used Russian tanks, APCs, draftees…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Back On Death Row, also, “True Conservative” Egg McMuffin Paid Himself $3 Million, Stiffed Vendors
Twitchy: Elon Musk – “Hate To Say It, But We Need To Increase Oil & Gas Output Immediately”, also, Lincoln Project Grifter Calls Out Gov. DeSantis For “Embarrassing Teenagers In Public” – OOPS
Louder With Crowder: Loser Stacey Abrams Compares herself To Ukraine’s Zelensky
Vox Popoli: Yeah, That’s Not How This Works, The Nuclear False Flag, and Can Confirm
According To Hoyt: Sailing Conspiratorial Seas, also, Pudding Heads
Monster Hunter Nation: This Is Comedy Gold, also, March Current Event Roundup
Gab News: The Deplatforming Of A Nation-State

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Breitbart Reappraised
American Conservative: The Causes Of The Russo-Ukrainian War
American Greatness: Once A Cable News Darling, Dr. Fauci Now Relegated To Local TV & YouTube
American Power: Why The Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault, also, A Flourishing Democracy In Ukraine?
American Thinker: About Those “Neo-Nazis” In Ukraine
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Seeking Beauty Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Attacks Canadian Firm For Not Giving Them A Cut Of Foreign Remittances, also, Cuba’s Socialist “Revolution”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 4
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Confirmed – Tomorrow’s OneWeb Launch From Baikonur Scrubbed, and UK Rocket Startup Skyrora Hit Hard By Ukraine War
Cafe Hayek: On Human Responsibility, also, “In Praise Of Petroleum”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Putin Has An Out That Biden Will Jump At, also, I’m Very Iffy About The Use Of Guilt By Association To Counter Russia
Don Surber: 246 Years Ago Today, A Convoy Saved Boston, also, Don’t Be Neoconned Again
First Street Journal: “I’m From The Government & I’m Here To Help!”, also, The New Complaint From The Left About Refugees
Gates Of Vienna: Islamic Jew-Hatred, Bullied & Beaten For Being Swedish, and Woman-On-The-Street Interview In Russia
The Geller Report: Fear Of Trump Kept Putin Out Of Ukraine, also, Pfizer Vaccine Has EIGHT PAGES Of Side Effects
Hogewash: Warp Factor, also, Keeping Warm & Fed
Hollywood In Toto: Batman & Robin – Holy Stink Bombs! also, Bruce Willis’ Day To Die Is Latest Insult To His Fans & Co-Stars
The Lid: NY School District Spied On Parents’ Social Media, Shared With Employers, Got Parents Fired
Legal Insurrection: California Supremes Order UC-Berkeley To Freeze Enrollment, Law Professor Sentenced To Re-Education Camp, and The Case For Keystone XL
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: LSU Football Coach Brian Kelly Should Have Looked Closer At Frank Wilson, John Fulkerson Feels “Blessed” to Get One More Home Game At Tennessee, and Breast Implants Left Kelly Stafford Feeling Deflated
Power Line: Why Are COVID Restrictions Coming Off?, The Incompetence Of The Biden Regime, and The Madness Of Slow Joe – Iran Edition
Shark Tank: DeSantis Flexes, Vows To Veto GOPe Redistricting Map
Shot In The Dark: Leave Bad Enough Alone, also, The Sound Of Someone Who Has Never Spent A Day In The Private Sector
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – A Princely Look At Russia & Eastern Europe
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Russian General Killed, and History Repeating?
Transterrestrial Musings: The World’s Weak Leadership, Putin’s Determination, and The Limits Of Libertarianism
Victory Girls: Lindsey Graham Encourages Russians To Assassinate Putin
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden Grants Temporary Protected Status To Ukrainians In The U.S. 
Weasel Zippers: Clyburn Justifies DOJ Targeting Parents,  Russia Bans Facebook, and Meghan Markle’s Sister Sues Her For Lying About Their Upbringing
The Federalist: Leftists Backpedaling At Full Speed From The Horrific Results Of Their Policies, After Banning Trump For Denouncing Violence, Twitter Lets Putin Keep His Account, and We Must Reopen ANWR
Mark Steyn: The Globalist Safe Space, also, War In Europe – Day Nine

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Category: Linkagery

Teetering on the Brink

Posted on | March 4, 2022 | Comments Off on Teetering on the Brink

The good new is, we’ve avoided World War III so far. The bad news is, Ukraine is getting pounded to hell. Being a student of history — and particularly of military history — I’ve struggled to resist the feeling that I’m living through a sequel to The Guns of August. If you’ve never read Barbara Tuchman’s classic account of the miscalculations that led to World War I, now would be a good time to buy it on Amazon (which, of course, would pay me a commission if you buy it through my affiliate link). But I’m not just hustling Amazon sales here; if you’ve never read this book, you simply must. It took a lot of blundering to go from a Serbian nationalist’s assassination of the Hapsburg heir to the bloodiest war in history, mainly because of a series of interlocking alliances. What the hell did England care about some obscure Balkan intrigue? And yet, because of Russia’s sympathy to Serbia, the fragile nature of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the imperial ambitions of Germany, England found itself sucked into a war in which 876,084 British troops died.

We are not 10 days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and there are some people in the United States itching to get us into a shooting war with Russia, which is an idea nearly as crazy as Putin’s belief that he could just roll his army into Kyiv in a matter of days. Eight days later, however, the Ukrainians are still fighting. The New York Times reports:

Ukraine’s soldiers have blown up bridges to halt advancing Russian ground troops. Its pilots and air defenses have prevented Russian fighter jets from conquering the skies. And a band of savvy Ukrainian cyberwarriors are so far beating Moscow in an information war, inspiring support at home and abroad.
To the surprise of many military analysts, Ukrainian troops are mounting a stiffer-than-expected resistance to Russian forces up and down battle lines across a country the size of Texas, fighting with a resourcefulness and creativity that U.S. analysts said could trip up Russian troops for weeks or months to come.
The Ukrainians are also exploiting a bungled beginning to Russia’s all-out assault. Armed with shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons, they have attacked a mileslong Russian armored convoy bearing down on Kyiv, the capital, helping stall an advance plagued by fuel and food shortages, and stretching a march that was expected to take a handful of days into possibly weeks.
To be sure, Russia’s invasion is only a week old. The strategic southern city of Kherson fell on Wednesday; the Kremlin’s army has intensified its bombardment of Kyiv and other cities; and, despite a flow of fresh arms pouring in from the West, Ukrainian leaders say they desperately need more weapons to destroy Russian tanks and down Russian warplanes.
And while the Ukrainian government has publicized its victories and Russian attacks that killed civilians, it has said far less about battlefield losses of its mechanized units. For their part, Russian officials are keen not to present the operation as a war, and so they have not put out information about the engagements their forces have won.
The result, in these early days of the invasion, is that the Ukrainians are turning the tables on the Russians in the information campaign.
On the battlefield, the Ukrainian military is conducting a hugely effective and mobile defense, using their knowledge of their home turf to stymie Russian forces on multiple fronts, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Thursday.
General Milley said some of the tactics employed by Ukrainian troops included using mobile weapons systems to bedevil the Russians wherever they could. Ukraine’s forces, he told reporters traveling with him in Europe, are “fighting with extraordinary skill and courage against Russian forces.”
U.S. officials have been impressed with the fighting prowess of the Ukrainians, but their assessment that Russia has the superior military has not changed.
Ukraine has succeeded in slowing the Russian advance, but has not been able to stop it, nor is the resistance strong enough to shift Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s war aims. Over the long term, U.S. officials said, it will be difficult for Ukraine to continue to frustrate the Russian advance.
In the meantime, though, Ukrainians are turning into a nation at arms. “In combat, it’s always different than what you thought it’d be, and the side that learns faster and adapts faster will win out,” said Frederick B. Hodges, the former top U.S. Army commander in Europe who is now with the Center for European Policy Analysis. “So far, Ukraine is learning and adapting faster.”
Ukraine has one of Europe’s largest militaries, with 170,000 active-duty troops, 100,000 reservists and territorial defense forces that include at least 100,000 veterans. Thousands of civilians are also now enlisting.
The Ukrainian army has been training for further Russian encroachment ever since Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and began supporting separatists in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Many of Ukraine’s veterans fought in those battles, so there is a subset of the population that is trained and knows how to fight Russians.
U.S. Special Operations Forces have also trained Ukrainian military forces. Leaders in Kyiv then assigned those soldiers to conventional units, allowing them in turn to train a larger portion of the army. American analysts say that training has made a difference on the battlefield.

Understand how high the stakes are here. Almost nobody in the U.S. is on Putin’s side, but do we want American troops dying over there?

The armchair war hawks — the Bill Kristol types — are urging belligerent measures that could lead us down the road to war, with consequences too horrible to contemplate. And dear God, how can we possibly go to war with this Commander-in-Chief? So we must hope that the Ukrainians can keep fighting, and with sufficient success that Russia becomes demoralized, and Putin is overthrown by his generals.

Every Ukrainian success, no matter how modest it may seem in the grand scheme of things, will help hasten Putin’s downfall. There are allegedly serious people who seem to think that Putin has sufficient strength within Russia to withstand a popular uprising. But the Russian army has already lost hundreds of vehicles and thousands of soldiers in this conflict, and with more arms flooding in to the Ukrainian resistance, the price of Putin’s gamble will only increase in the days and weeks ahead.

We may yet avoid Armageddon, and the success of the Ukrainian resistance is now the world’s best hope. Pray for Ukraine!




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | March 4, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Frank Abrokwa, 37, who has been arrested in New York City more than 20 times since 1999 and those of my readers who are good at math will immediately realize that this means this perpetrator has been perpetrating at least one crime a year since he was 14. Other of my readers may be wondering, “What kind of name is Abrokwa?”

The answer is Ghanaian. There is apparently a shortage of career criminals in New York, so they’re importing them, and turning them loose to terrorize the citizenry. But I don’t feel sorry for the citizens of New York, because they voted for these policies.

Joe Biden got 78% of the vote in Manhattan, and 61% statewide. The state legislature, controlled by Democrats, enacted a “bail reform” law that mandated the release of nearly all criminal suspects (because “social justice”) without paying a cent of bail. That this has resulted in an unprecedented crime wave should surprise no one; it was predicted at the time the “bail reform” law was being debated, but the Democrats who run New York simply didn’t care. Considering then that this disaster is a self-inflicted wound, a consequence of the embrace of the Democratic Party by the people of New York, it is difficult to find sympathy for the individual victims of the current crime wave. We recall H.L. Mencken’s famous observation, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

How about being smeared with feces “good and hard”?

A Bronx man who allegedly smeared human feces on a woman’s face on a subway platform last week has been arrested, NYPD said.
Frank Abrokwa, 37, approached a 43-year-old woman who was sitting on a bench on the southbound platform of the Wakefield-241st Street subway station in the Bronx around 5:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21, cops said.
Suddenly, without saying a word, he hit the unsuspecting woman in the face and the back of her head with human feces before fleeing, footage released by police showed. . . .
Abrokwa was arrested Monday and charged with forcible touching, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment.

All of which are misdemeanors, by the way, and Abrokwa was promptly released without bail. This attack occurred in the Bronx, which is represented in Congress by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Did the victim of Abrokwa’s subway fecal attack vote for AOC? If so, I find it difficult to say she does not deserve to be smeared with feces. Were it within my power to make it possible, everyone who voted for AOC — who got 152,661 votes in 2020 — would be treated the same way.

Frank Abrokwa is the symbolic face of the Democratic Party:

The sicko who allegedly smashed his own feces in a Bronx straphanger’s face joked with cops that “s–t happens” before sneering to a Bronx judge, “F–k you, bitch.”
Frank Abrokwa, 37, was busted Monday at his homeless shelter in connection to the revolting Feb. 21 attack, according to cops and police sources.
Upon arrest, he made light of the attack, quipping to cops, “S–t happens. Haha. This is a s–tty situation. Haha,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Grace Phillips said during Abrokwa’s arraignment late Tuesday.
Abrokwa — apparently impatient because Brooklyn detectives showed up to arrest him for an unrelated hate crime from September — also made a scene in Bronx Criminal Court.
Prior to his appearance before Judge Wanda Licitra, he could be heard in the holding area grumbling, “Why am I still here? I’m f–king tired of it. I’m hungry.” . . .
Phillips requested an order of protection for the 43-year-old feces victim — prompting an outburst from Abrokwa, who told the judge, “I don’t know that b—h,” referring to the victim.
“Can I go with the Brooklyn detectives?” he pleaded.
He then lashed out at the judge, lamenting, “Why am I being mistreated by the system?”
“I’m being respectful. I’m talking to my attorney,” he snapped at the jurist. “You’re talking to her. Not to me. F–k you, bitch.”
At that point, Licitra called the case and had Abrokwa removed from the courtroom — but brought him back in later to continue the arraignment, which lasted about 40 minutes.
Ultimately, Abrokwa was freed without bail — because the charges against him were not bail-eligible under the state’s bail reform laws, despite prosecutors’ request for him to be held on $15,000 bond, or $5,000 cash.
Horrifying video of the attack shows Abrokwa allegedly slapping a bag filled with his own crap in the victim’s face — and then rubbing it on the back of her head — as she sat on a bench at the Wakefield-241st Street subway station.
Just before the attack, Abrokwa approached the victim and said, “Hey mami, how come you don’t want to talk to me?,” Phillips said.
“The complainant did not engage with the defendant,” the ADA said. “Instead of taking the lack of engagement in stride, the defendant responded with violence. He walked into a nearby idling subway car and defecated in a bag.”
“He then walked back to the complainant and repeatedly smashed the bag and left his feces in her face, head, neck, shoulders and back area. She had feces in her eyes, and hair. As he attacked, the defendant stated in sum and substance: ‘Like this, bitch?’”
The victim used her bag to shield herself but suffered a small bleeding cut inside her lip, and a swollen and red forehead, Phillips said.
But just after being freed in the Bronx, Abrokwa was nabbed in connection to the Brooklyn hate crime.
In that case, Abrokwa approached a 46-year-old man on Utica Avenue near Park Place in Crown Heights around 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9 and snarled, “F–king Jew, I’m going to kill you,” cops said.

Turning loose Jew-hating lunatics to terrorize the public — this is the Democratic Party’s 2022 midterm campaign platform. Anyone tempted to vote Democrat should seek psychiatric treatment immediately.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

Category: Crime, New York

In The Mailbox: 03.03.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 4, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.03.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“We just discovered an anti-Russian botnet that was boosting fake news using dozens of accounts across the same IP addresses.
Nice try, CIA.” – Andrew Torba

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Germany Gets A Whack To The Side Of The Head
EBL: More Ukrainian Warrior Women, also, “Peasants Reading The Emancipation Proclamation”
Twitchy: Elon Musk’s Mom Takes Fauxcahontas & Bernie Sanders To The Woodshed
Louder With Crowder: Ukraine Vice PM Tweets Elon Musk For Help With Starlink, Musk Fixes Issue Himself Inside Of 24 Hours
Vox Popoli: The Lies Never Stop, The Truth About 2020, and The Neocon Perspective

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Are So Stupid It Hurts
American Conservative: The Peril & Promise Of Austro-America
American Greatness: Iowa Farmer Says Americans May See Grocery Bills Increase By $1000 – A Month, also, Standing Up To Putin Means Ditching Net-Zero
American Power: U.S. & NATO Pressed On Ukraine Aid, also, Interview With Professor John Mearsheimer
American Thinker: The Economic Balloon That May Finally End Progressive Leftism, also, Why America Needs Donald Trump
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily State Of The Union News
Babalu Blog: Happy Birthday To Desi Arnaz, also, Official Cuban Press Laments That Young People Don’t Want To Join The Communist Party
BattleSwarm: Time For Another Exciting Episode Of “Politicians Behaving Badly”
Behind The Black: Former Virgin Galactic CEO Sued Over Pump & Dump Stock Scheme, Today’s Blacklisted Americans, and Russia Blocks Future Rocket Engine Sales To U.S. 
Cafe Hayek: “Ode To The Middleman”, An Innocent & Compelling Explanation, and More On The Pattern Of Price Changes At The Gas Pump
CDR Salamander: NATO’s Potential Russian Flashpoint May Be At Sea, also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Toxic Masculinity & Microaggressions Are SO Last Week, Don’t Tell Me There’s No God, and Joe Biden’s SOTU Was A Dumpster Fire Of Half-Truths & Outright Lies
Don Surber: Proof That Polling Killed COVID Restrictions, The Most Liked Justice? Clarence Thomas, and NYT Admits Biden Is In Over His Head
First Street Journal: Three More Dead In Philly And The Inquirer Doesn’t Care, also, What Have The Climate Action Activists Done To Reduce Their Own Carbon Emissions?
Gates Of Vienna: In A Democracy, Opposition To The NWO Is Prohibited, Crashing The Border At Melilla, and No One Can Stand In The Way Of The NWO
The Geller Report: The Jab Is Deadlier Than COVID For Those Under 80, also, Fed Chief Powell Says It’s Possible To Have More Than One Reserve Currency
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Ahem, and My Solar-Powered Volkswagens
Hollywood In Toto: Batman Returns – As Divisive & Deranged As Ever, Kevin Costner Teams With FOX Nation For Yellowstone Tribute, and PragerU’s Amala Ekpunobi Spills The Secrets To Her Social Media Success
The Lid: The Lazy MSM Is Reporting Only Part Of The Russo-Ukrainian War
Legal Insurrection: Nikole Hannah-Jones To Discuss Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity…At A Veterinary Medicine Conference, Over 100 Professors Targeted For Their Speech In 2021, and Rashida Tlaib Doubles Down On Far-Left Priorities In SOTU Response
Nebraska Energy Observer: Hey – Got Change For A $10?
Outkick: Rick Barry Blows Whistle On NBA Players, Fans Rally – Raise $350K+ For Family Of Zakai Ziegler After House Burns Down, and Stephen A. Smith Has No Idea MLB Is More Popular Than NBA
Power Line: Perfidy In Vienna, Or The Madness Of Slow Joe?, The Climatistas Are Lying Again, and The Axis Of Evil Reunites
Shark Tank: Children Protest “Don’t Say Gay” Bill At State Capitol, also, First Lady DeSantis Cancer-Free
Shot In The Dark: Everything Old Is New Again, Ideas, and Free Market
STUMP: Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths Part 2
The Political Hat: Artificial Wombs Mean Only One Thing – Cyborg Catgirl Mommies!
This Ain’t Hell: Day Of The Soldado, Bounty On Putin, and Nothing Left To Lose
Transterrestrial Musings: Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble, Sanctions Start To Bite, and The State Of Putin & The World
Victory Girls: Iran Deal – Reward Terrorists & Bypass Congress
Volokh Conspiracy: Ilya Shapiro Shouted Down At U.C. Hastings
Weasel Zippers: Despite Soaring Gas Prices Pelosi Opposed To Drilling On Public Lands, Mom Confronts Sheila Jackson Lee At Hearing On CRT – “This Is Free Speech”, and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg – Buying Iranian Oil Is On The Table
The Federalist: What I Saw At The Truckers’ Convoy In Missouri, Corrupt Media Hysterical At DeSantis Again, and Pro-Life, Pro-Woman, Anti-Racism Bills Blocked In Virginia Legislature By…Republicans?
Mark Steyn: The State Of The State Of The Union, War In Europe Day Seven, and The Illusion Of Permanence

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