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In The Mailbox: 02.21.22

Posted on | February 22, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.21.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So…I am departing in the wee hours of Thursday on the See Confinement & Die Tour with a fellow N3F member who lives in Boulder City. We’re going to see if we can make it to Mike Williamson’s latest Emergency Holographic Convention on the east side of the Nashville suburbs, driving straight through on I-40 without benefit of Buc-ees, and then back again Sunday. For once, I’m not packing my laptop, so there won’t be any posting from Wednesday through next Monday, and possibly not until Tuesday, depending on how exhausted I am from the drive back. If this sounds crazy, maybe it is, but it’s not like you didn’t know that by now.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Canadian truckers & supporters, right about now

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Florida Woman? Well, She’s From New York, also, The Scandal F*c*book Doesn’t Want You To Know About
Director Blue: The Dreams That Fly Away
EBL: Severance, From, and What Is At The Center Of A Black Hole?
Twitchy: Kyle Rittenhouse Tells Tucker Carlson Who’s On The List To Get Sued For Defamation, also, Christopher Rufo Responds To John Oliver’s Rant About The Anti-CRT Movement
Louder With Crowder: Watch Freedom Convoy Protesters Sabotage A Live MSNBC Hit, also, Evangeline Lilly Pleads With PM Zoolander – Stop Being A Tyrant To “Our Fellow Canadians”
Vox Popoli: The Techno-Pedocracy, Another “Suicide”, and Fears For The Imperial Order
Gab News: The Parallel Economy Fund

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Globalism Is A Death Cult
American Conservative: They’re Not Djoking, also, Don’t Repeat The Crimean War
American Greatness: The Gathering Storm In The West, also, America Isn’t Divided, It’s Being Hijacked
American Power: San Francisco’s Asian-American Political Power, also, Britney Spears Scores $15 Million Book Deal
American Thinker: “You Will Know Them By Their Fruits”, also, The Power Of The Powerless Is Real
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Critical Military Theory Friday, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: How American Airlines Became State Security Agents For Castro, also, Cuba Defends Putin’s Aggression Against Ukraine
BattleSwarm: Tucker Carlson On P.J. O’Rourke, also, LinkSwarm For February 19
Behind The Black: Sierra Club Official Busted For Vandalizing Brownsville Mural With Anti-SpaceX Graffiti, Northrop Grumman Launches Cygnus Freighter To ISS, and Why Are ANY Parents Sending Their Kids Back To Loudoun County Public Schools?
Cafe Hayek: An Exchange At EconLog Over COVID Policy, also, J.P. Sears Ends On A Note Of Optimism
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, What Does A Decaying Empire Look Like?
Da Tech Guy: Five Short Canadian Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, A Funny Vic Power Story That Shows How Far We’ve Come
Don Surber: Putin Shows Our Media & Deep State Are Frauds, NYT Finally Tells The Truckers’ Side, and Houston Paper Smears Founder Of Rice University
First Street Journal: When A Credentialed Media Article Gives Numbers, It’s Wise To Check The Math, also, The Left Cannot Tolerate Dissent
Gates Of Vienna: Hatred Coupled With Lies, “Half The Population Is Ill Or In Quarantine”, and Sweden Is Racist & Hate-Filled!
The Geller Report: U.S. Truckers Gear Up For Cross-Country Anti-Vax Protest Convoy, also, Emergencies Act Backlash
Hogewash: Bob Belvedere, RIP, The Winds In Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: How Tim Burton’s Batman Made The MCU Possible, also, Dave Chappelle & Clarence Thomas Highlight Week Of Cancel Culture Fails
The Lid: President’s Day – A Homogenized Celebration Of Nothing, also, How Harry S. Truman Helped God Perform A Miracle
Legal Insurrection: Joy Reid Insists Parents Protesting School Boards Are “Mainly White Conservatives”, When Fascism Comes To America It Will Look Like Justin Trudeau’s Canada, and Democrats Fear “Extinction” In Rural Areas
Nebraska Energy Observer: Two More Men – Cancer Sucks, Random Observations, and Leviathan
Outkick: MLB & The Players Association Currently Meeting In Florida, Michigan’s Juwan Howard Slaps Wisconsin Coach Following Loss, and Steelers Hire Brian Flores As Defensive Assistant & Linebacker Coach
Power Line: Latest From The Dreamworld Of Green Energy, Putin Moves On Ukraine (Updated), and Durham For Dummies
Shark Tank: Demings Irked By Defund The Police Narrative Against Democrats, also, Laura Loomer Secures Top GOP Op For Her Campaign Team
Shot In The Dark: Calling All “Journalists”, Welfare Check?, and Metaphor Alert
STUMP: The Geography Of Homicide
The Political Hat: Science On The Verge Of Creating Hyperintelligent Catgirl Mentats, also, Trudeau The Tyrant
This Ain’t Hell: Ensign & 4 Chiefs Charged For Leaking F-35 Crash Video, Valor Friday, and Berlin Airlift’s “Candy Bomber”, Col. Gail Halvorsen, Dies At 91
Transterrestrial Musings: The Hatred Of Democrats By Rurals, Climate Risk, and That NYT Ad About J.K. Rowling
Victory Girls: Beijing Olympics – A PR Disaster,  Canada’s Dictator Problem, and Elon Musk Schools Fauxcahontas On Tax Realities
Volokh Conspiracy: Court In Civil Case Holds Trump’s J6 Speech Could Be Constitutionally Unprotected Incitement, also, Federal Court Bars Federal Agencies From Considering Cost Of Climate Change In Agency Rulemaking
Weasel Zippers: Fat Antifa Thug Crashes Police Presser To Whine Cops Aren’t Protecting Them From White Supremacists, Now You Can Watch U.S. Wages Fall In Real Terms, and Ted Cruz Has Best Tweet About Dead Epstein Associate
The Federalist: “I Must Betray You” Illustrates The True Evils Of Communism For Teens, Michael Sussman’s Lawyers – It’s OK If He Lied To The FBI, and State Lawmakers Waking Up To Blackrock’s Dangers To Americans And Acting
Mark Steyn: The Free World In Eclipse, Rode Hard – Steve McQueen & Junior Bonner, and Into The Darkness

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Return From Reno Double-Scoop Edition

Posted on | February 21, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Return From Reno Double-Scoop Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week, another fine find from Reddit’s r/cosplaygirls subreddit. I present to you Barbie Princess Valentine’s Edition by u/miss_sarcastic 7.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

No GI Joe and Ken jokes, please.

 

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1624, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. (Week 2) Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1631, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Return To Prosperity Friday, Rule Five Critical Military Theory Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon (I) with another Saturday Gingermageddon from this week.

EBL: Kimi, Ukrainian Maidan, Echoes Of The Past, Ozarks Season 4, The Tinder Swindler, Menthol Bad But Crack Pipes Good?, Grave Digger, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Macbeth, Suspicion, The Eye Of The Tiger, Frank Sinatra – My Funny Valentine, Martina McBride, Look Ma No Masks, Valentine’s Day with Angie Dickinson, King Tut, Allison Gollust, CODA, Henri Matisse – Blue Nude, and Empty Tables & Ebb Tide

A View From The Beach: Sydney Sweeney Wants Fewer Nude Scenes, Fish Pic Friday – Taylor Lynn, Two-Faced, Women Lose Jobs Over Loose Clothes, Oysters? There’s an App for That, Kap Kops Secretly Surveil Republican Congressman, Wednesday Wetness, She Aborted the “Devil’s Child”, Rippergate, Tuesday Tanlines, Politics Delayed, Not Politics Denied, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, Michelle Hayden, Fish Pic Friday – Alina Semjonov, Gone Fishin’, Thursday Tanlines, Hogan Demands More Braceros, Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Valentines Day Morning in the Fields of Politics, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Sunday Sunrise and How Did I Miss This?

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Category: Rule 5

Russia-Ukraine Crisis Continues

Posted on | February 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Russia-Ukraine Crisis Continues

Lots of headlines via Memeorandum:

New intel adds to US fears that Russia is readying for military action
— CNN

Ukraine Live Updates: Biden Warning
on Russian Attack Was Prompted
by New Intelligence
— New York Times

Ukraine tensions: US sounds fresh alarm
over Russia invasion fears
— BBC

U.S. has intel that Russian commanders have orders to proceed with Ukraine invasion
— CBS News

Ukraine’s president criticizes Western “appeasement” of Putin’s aggression
— Axios

It would appear that the current level of mobilization is such that Russia is unlikely to halt — The Guns of August all over again. That”s the thing you have to understand about modern armies: You don’t fully mobilize for no reason. That’s what I was trying to explain to certain of my friends before the Iraq War. There was no way, once we’d deployed all those troops halfway around the world, that we were not going to invade. Congressional “debate” over authorizing the invasion was a kabuki show, because the decision had already been made. And if we can believe what’s being reported, this thing is past the point of no return:

Putin has amassed approximately 190,000 troops near the Ukraine border, effectively surrounding the country. A U.S. official told reporters on Friday that 40-50% of the up to 190,000 Russian soldiers near Ukraine’s borders are now “in an attack position.”

What will happen? And what will Joe Biden do? Our Commander-in-Chief botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, and his next foreign-policy success will also be his first foreign-policy success, so the real question is, “How will Joe manage to screw everything up this time?”

Eighty-one million votes!




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine

Nick Saban Dropped THE BOMB!

Posted on | February 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Nick Saban Dropped THE BOMB!

While everybody else is expecting war in Ukraine, Alabama football fans are reeling from the nuclear holocaust unleashed in a speech last week by Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban:

“We lost the national championship game, basically because we had 3 corners out, both starters and the best backup. So we’re playing with some guys that didn’t have a lot of experience. It eventually got us in the fourth quarter. We had the kind of team where we had a really good quarterback and we wanted to have skill guys that they couldn’t guard. So we had 2 who were really, really good — (John Metchie III and Jameson Williams). They both got hurt.
”Now, we were playing with guys that typically didn’t have to play at those positions. The lesson to be learned is there were 3 guys, and I’m not calling out any names, that basically didn’t do the things they needed to do throughout the season because they were frustrated with their circumstance. … They’re frustrated with their circumstance because they’re not playing as much as they want to. They’re outcome oriented, they want to worry about how many balls they catch or how much playing time they get or whatever it is. So they don’t focus every day on being a complete player at their position, and they don’t work in practice and prepare for the games because they say to themselves, ‘Why should I do this? I’m not gonna play anyway.’
”So, we had 3 guys, they all had a significant role in the national championship game, and not one of them, not one, could take advantage of the opportunity that they had, because they never ground through it. They never made themselves the best player they could be. When they got the opportunity, they couldn’t do it. That’s a lesson for everybody. What comes first? Playing time? Or making sure that you’re ready to play and create value for yourself when you get the opportunity?”

Whoa! That’s a bombardment of heavy truth, and a message to the rest of the team. A lot of these five-star recruits expect to be starters their freshman year, and think it’s the job of coaches to give them what they consider as their “fair share” of playing time. So if they don’t start right away, they get their feelings hurt and start sulking, but then when something happens to give them a shot — and having Metchie and Williams both get hurt was clearly not something anyone anticipated — they’re not ready for it. You can contrast that to Mac Jones, who rode the bench for three years before he got his chance to be Alabama’s starting quarterback, but by God, he was ready when he got that chance.




 

Category: Alabama, Football

Exposing Gender, Inc.

Posted on | February 20, 2022 | Comments Off on Exposing Gender, Inc.

Through the magic of the YouTube algorithm, last night I came across feminist Isabella Malbin’s “Whose Body Is It?” channel. As I’ve been chronicling since 2014, radical feminists are waging war against what can fairly be described as the Transgender-Industrial Complex. Of course my readers know me as a staunch opponent of feminism, per se — the concept of “group rights” is at the heart of the radicalism destroying our civilization. Nevertheless, “truth is great and will prevail,” and radical feminists have tenaciously grabbed hold of an important truth — men and women are different, in ways that are socially significant.

Malbin did an interview with activist Alix Aharon:

Alix Aharon returns with updates on her research into the dangerous dichotomy facing young girls today: either hypersexualize or de-sex altogether. We get into who specifically is being targeted by gender corporatism and media, who’s resisting the propaganda, and the organized grooming of women and girls of all ages into the mass psychosis of gender dysphoria. We also cover the recent craze of so-called non-binary surgeries, the trans movement’s desecration and appropriation of faith and religious heritage, the perverted limitlessness of hentai, the insidious ways in which child sex abuse is being normalized, and the push against healthy human sexuality toward a non-human, alien-like future.
Alix is an activist and journalist building important real-time documentation and awareness of the everyday violence committed by the gender industry via the Gender Mapper Project. Her candid articulations regarding these medicalized atrocities inspire women to come out of the gender critical closet, ask questions, and escape the dizzying mind control sweeping society.

Aharon is addressing something very important: Social media is fueling this “dangerous dichotomy” in which young girls receive the message that the ideal is to be a hypersexualized bimbo — aspiring to become a “Real Housewives” cast member, basically — or else they must reject womanhood altogether, chasing the transgender fantasy, getting their breasts amputated, injecting themselves with testosterone, etc.

This is a formula for madness, and radical feminists are correct to criticize it, but they’re getting little support from the so-called “progressive community,” and are actively smeared by the liberal media. Just this past week, for example, Time magazine ran an article depicting opponents of the transgender agenda as dangerous terrorists intimidating providers of “lifesaving care.” On her Twitter account (@GenderMapper), Aharon called out Time:

Every conservative understands what it’s like to be smeared this way. If you advocate for limited government, fiscal sanity and maintenance of the Constitution — just basic common-sense traditionalism — you will inevitably find yourself depicted by the media as some kind of “extremist,” lumped in with neo-Nazis, etc. And this is what is happening now to feminists. Whenever liberals have an agenda, everyone who is against must be Hitler, according to the media. If liberals want war, anyone who wants peace will be labelled a “right-wing extremist.”

First Amendment freedom of speech is under attack.

What is happening is that opposition to the liberal agenda — regarding transgenderism or anything else — is categorized as “hate,” and thereby made subject to “de-platforming,” so that you can’t use common online communications channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) to express dissent. Activists collaborate with Silicon Valley insiders to suppress opposition, to block opponents from fundraising sites, which means that while any liberal can use PayPal, Google Adsense or whatever to fund their activism (e.g., pro-transgenderism), opponents of the liberal agenda do not have the same freedom (because “hate”).

This is why the reporter who reached out to Alix Aharon for her views on Time‘s celebration of transgenderism was Neil Munro of Breibart:

“All of a sudden, all is better because Jack is really Jackie,” said Alix Aharon, an advocate for child safeguarding who is a member of the Women’s Liberation Front: “It’s a girl! Not a gay boy, not a sissy! Society is not going to shake your hand and say, ‘Well done, you’ve got a sissy boy.’ But if you say you have a transgender girl, well, there’s a parade for you, you get all of this attention from wider society, you’re praised as a wonderful mother, a great person.” . . .
“Traditionally, if somebody didn’t like their gay kid, they would just tell them to leave home, they wouldn’t castrate them,” said Aharon. She continued:

It might be hard to accept that your child is gay and does deviate from the norm. But it is a much brighter outcome for you and your family to accept whatever that is than to encourage them to embark on a dangerous journey of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that damage their healthy genitalia. . . .

A surprising number of prominent gays encourage this “trans-the-gay-away” process, Aharon said:

I find it really quite mind-boggling that prominent, famous gay men support the idea of Kai [Shappley] and Jazz Jennings [going through this process] because they don’t see themselves in that whole story. It’s very well for Elton John, for example, to be sitting there in his 60s with his intact penis and his intact body, and then to be watching this … Have you no sympathy for yourself and the way this turned out for you as a kid?

Research studies show that almost 9 of 10 kids who initially claim a different-sex identity soon reclaim their own sex.
Feminine behavior by young boys can be common, Aharon said. “Young boys often try to wear their mother’s clothes because they love the mother, so it’s often a sign of boys being very close to their mothers,” she said.
Girls are also getting transubstantiated into boys, especially girls who are shocked by puberty and unwanted sexual attention from aggressive, porn-watching boys.
Porn indirectly pressures girls to display themselves as sexualized women — but the transgender ideology allows them to escape the pressure by declaring themselves to be “non-binary” non-females, Aharon said. The “dangerous dichotomy facing young girls today [is] either hypersexualize or de-sex altogether,” she said, noting that many girls beg for money to surgically remove their breasts.

Now, there are many topics on which Aharon and I may disagree, but the connection between the online inundation of pornography and the alarming increase in teenage transgenderism is not one of them. Immersion in a hypersexualized culture is certain to produce all kinds of craziness, and middle-school girls declaring themselves “non-binary” is just one flavor of 21st-century sexual insanity. People are getting into all kinds of weird kinks and fetishes that were once scarcely mentionable, college girls are selling porn selfies via OnlyFans or getting murdered by “sugar daddies,” and a certain number of dudes are joining the “incel” world where Elliot Rodger is regarded as a heroic role model.

Nobody in “mainstream” journalism would give Alix Aharon a platform to discuss these issues, and we have to ask, “Why?” Could it be because Silicon Valley profits from this sex-crazed sickness? Whatever the explanation, the fact is that feminists opposed to “Gender, Inc.” are being subjected to the same kind of smears and silencing tactics that we on the Right have experienced for years. In terms of defending liberty, then, we have become de facto allies, in much the same way as we have become allies of Asian parents in San Francisco who recalled their school board.

Raise high the banner of liberty, and welcome all who will fight for it.




 

Category: The Transgender Cult

FMJRA 2.0: Rainbow In The Dark

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Rainbow In The Dark

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Left work last night a little before 8 PM, stopped to refuel in Carson City, stopped again in Yerington for coffee and a latrine break, and then I didn’t stop until I was home in Tonopah around 1 AM this morning. Understandably, I wanted nothing more than to unpack, set up my nose hose, and go to bed. Which I did.

Things were kinda streaky for my Senators this week – first we lost two in a row to Minnesota (but they were close) and then swept the Hated Yankees in a three-game series, only the third sweep of the season. With 98 games out of 120 done, I’m not liking my chances of reaching .500, but with Dierker, Kaat, and Reed on board, I’ll have a much better starting rotation next season.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Late Night With Rule 5 Apologies
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

 

Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley
EBL
357 Magnum

Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?
First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Whipping Post
A View From The Beach
EBL

 

Rams Win the ‘White Supremacy’ Bowl
EBL

Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.15.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.16.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 02.17.22
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Early Front-Runner Emerges for 2022 ‘Media Gaslighter of the Year’ Award
EBL
357 Magnum

CNN and the Ukraine ‘Crisis’
EBL
357 Magnum

Gregory William Robert Fulchino, R.I.P.
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending February 18:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  A View From The Beach (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

Fat Gay 35-Year-Old Facebook Executive Jeren Miles Fired for Allegedly Trying to Hook Up With 13-Year-Old Boy

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Fat Gay 35-Year-Old Facebook Executive Jeren Miles Fired for Allegedly Trying to Hook Up With 13-Year-Old Boy

Look, it’s not that I’m prejudiced against fat people. Or gay people, for that matter. However, I am prejudiced against Facebook executives, especially when they’re sociology majors — i.e., the bargain basement of college graduates — whose behavior creates a situation where I find it advisable to use the word “allegedly” in a headline:

A high-level Facebook staffer was allegedly caught soliciting a minor for sex during an amateur undercover sting operation in Columbus, Ohio. The video of the encounter was posted to the YouTube channel “Predator Catchers Indianapolis” on February 16.
Jeren Andrew Miles, 35, of Palm Springs California, allegedly sent sexually explicit texts to a 13-year-old boy and made plans for the boy to meet him at Le Meridien Columbus hotel.
Miles was the Manager of Community Development at Meta/Facebook until a spokesperson from the company confirmed to The Daily Caller that Miles is “no longer with the company.”
According to the video, the anti-pedophile activist group busted Miles at the hotel where he then agreed to give an interview.
During the interview, Miles admitted that he sent sexually explicit messages to a person he believed to be a 13-year-old boy, according to the video.
“I was flirting, I was talking to him,” Miles admitted. “There was never any intention of meeting up with him.”
However, he later admitted that he arranged for them to meet after giving the underaged boy “information” and a “location.”
Miles serves on the board of directors for LGBTQ+ group, Equality California. He has since deleted his social media accounts on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Miles previously worked as the Director of Community Affairs for Lyft, according to an archive on LinkedIn . . .

Daniel Payne points out that a Facebook public-relations official named Drew Pusateri — who, for all I know, might be totally heterosexual, despite the fact that he’s a white guy working for Facebook — “tried to talk [TechCrunch reporter Ingrid Lunden] out of the newsworthiness of this story . . . noting that other outlets were not covering it.”

Gosh, you mean the Big Tech behemoth expects reporters to pretend that it’s not newsworthy that one of their executives was expressing his desire to “suck” (that’s a direct quote) a 13-year-old boy?

Allegedly, I hasten to add. Our legal department (i.e. Bert the Samoan lawyer) hasn’t gotten back to me on my request for clarification about how often I must use “allegedly” in this post, just to make clear that I am not the one making these accusations, and am instead merely quoting what other online sources have published. Certainly I do not claim to have direct knowledge of what Jeren Andrew Miles planned to do with a 13-year-old boy in an Ohio hotel room, so that is just an allegation, whereas the fact that he’s fat is self-evident.

Also, Jeren Andrew Miles is a white male homosexual, and it seems as if the way “diversity” works in Silicon Valley nowadays is that no white males can be employed unless they’re gay. Or a really good engineer. But considering that Jeren Andrew Miles majored in sociology, I’m going to bet he’s not very good at all that “coding” stuff that computer engineers get paid to do. And by the way, did I mention he’s fat?

To repeat — I am not prejudiced against fat people, but lots of other people are, which is why I keep pointing this out, just to give those people another reason to hate Facebook (as if more reasons were needed). So I apologize to any fat people or gay people (or even sociology majors) offended by this post, but you understand that I had to leverage every available prejudice as part of my effort to incite Fear and Loathing of Facebook Executives, Particularly The Ones Who (Allegedly) Want to Suck a 13-Year-Old Boy in a Hotel Room.

Being a blogger is a thankless job, but somebody’s got to do it. Allegedly.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Gays

‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Posted on | February 19, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘He Had a 48-Page Rap Sheet’

Say hello to Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, and while you’re at it, you can also say good-bye to him, because his lengthy criminal career recently came to a permanent end, thanks to Alabama law enforcement.

Lanier was from South Carolina, where last year, he escaped custody:

A man escaped police custody Wednesday afternoon [Oct. 27] while being treated at a Greenwood hospital, according to police.
Alexander Kade Lanier was being treated Wednesday at Self Regional Medical Center after he was arrested by Greenwood police in connection with a burglary and domestic violence investigation from Tuesday night, Greenwood Police Department Public Information Officer Jonathan Link said.
At about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Lanier eluded police, who minutes later discovered he was no longer in his hospital room, Link said. He did not have enough details to say how Lanier escaped police custody or surveillance, but officers have been searching near Self since then to find him.
“I can’t think of the last time we had somebody escape our custody like this, but it’s very unfortunate,” Police Chief T.J. Chaudoin said. “There’s a lot of questions to be asked like why he wasn’t in handcuffs, why he wasn’t in leg irons. There’s several questions that have to be asked to figure out why he wasn’t restrained.”
Chaudoin said Lanier was being treated at the hospital after telling officers he had consumed an illegal substance. Hospital staff members were monitoring him after treatment, and Chaudoin said one sworn officer was assigned to watch Lanier when he escaped. He said an investigation is underway into how Lanier escaped and whether department policy was followed.
Lanier was last seen wearing a red hoodie and gray shorts. Chaudoin said after Lanier’s escape, he stole a vehicle from someone he knew who lived on Woodrow Avenue.

More details of the arrest in that case:

Lanier was arrested Tuesday night in connection with a burglary case. Police went at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday to a Stanley Avenue apartment, where a woman said a man had forced his way into the apartment.
The woman told officers she used to be in a relationship with the man, but he recently tried to contact her after she blocked him on social media and on her phone, a report said. He came to the apartment she was staying at and began to beat on the door. When she told him to leave, he broke the door down and started to argue with her.
The woman tried to calm him down so he would not flee before police arrived, and when officers came he had locked himself in the bathroom, the report said. He came out when police commanded him to, and told police he had consumed a bag with a dozen pills in it.

Was Lanier able to escape because he was a criminal mastermind, or did this have more to do with a particularly dumb cop? Readers can decide for themselves, but a few days later, he was caught in Alabama:

The Pell City Police Department arrested a man Thursday who was wanted as a fugitive from justice out of South Carolina.
Pell City Police Chief Paul Irwin said Alexander Lanier, 26, of Greenwood, S.C., after a chase that spanned several miles of Interstate 20 and ended in Leeds.
The chief said Lanier had previously escaped from a correctional facility in South Carolina after he had been convicted of burglary while armed.
He said at 4:54 p.m. Thursday, St. Clair County advised the Pell City Police Department of a 2006 Honda Pilot driven by Lanier headed westbound on I-20 that was suspected of leaving the scene of an accident in Coldwater.
Irwin said officer Manuel Diaz spotted the vehicle near I-20 exit 158 and began pursuit. Diaz was later joined by other officers and deputies from St. Clair County. The chief said the pursuit continued until the Leeds exit where the Leeds Police Department was deploying a spike strip. He said Lanier avoided the strip but lost control of the vehicle which came to rest in a nearby ditch.
Irwin said Lanier was arrested after the chase without incident, but was transported to the hospital because of injuries sustained in the crash.
Jail records show Lanier was booked into the St. Cir County Jail in Asheville Sunday afternoon. He is being held without bond on charges of two counts of buying or receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and a charge as a fugitive from justice.

Now, you might think that would be the end of it. He had already escaped custody in South Carolina, become an interstate fugitive and led police on a pursuit in a stolen car. Lock him up and throw away the key, particularly given the fact that he had originally been arrested for terrorizing an ex-girlfriend. I was under the impression that violence against women was a crime category taken seriously by our criminal justice system, but perhaps I was mistaken. Also, I was generally under the impression that progressive soft-on-crime leniency hadn’t spread as far as St. Clair County, Alabama — which, last time I checked, was a redneck stronghold where Donald Trump got 81% of the vote — and yet, in this too I was mistaken, because a judge there sent Lanier to a drug-rehab facility. And of course, the career criminal just waltzed right out of there, and went on a crime spree that ended shortly after he decided to carjack somebody at Waffle House, in Oxford, Alabama.

Let me tell you folks, I went to college at Jacksonville State University, just up the road from Oxford, a place I spent a fair amount of time (although on the advice of Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I’ll invoke my right to remain silent as to what I was doing there, and as to exact dates, well, I’m sure I’ve got an alibi). But the thing is, Oxford is nearly as redneck as St. Clair County, if not indeed more so. It was the site of a rather notorious incident during the civil rights era — the locals didn’t take kindly to the “Freedom Riders” passing through — and Oxford is just not the kind of place where a fugitive on a crime spree can expect lenient treatment. Hell, you try to carjack somebody there, and they’re likely to pull out their own gun and shoot you dead. And dear God, a Waffle House? You’re playing Russian roulette trying to carjack somebody at a Waffle House in a redneck town like Oxford. I think we can discard the idea that Alexander Kade Lanier was a criminal mastermind:

Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Oxford early Monday morning.
During a news conference Monday afternoon, Partridge said Alexander Kade Lanier, 26, of Louisiana, had a 48-page rap sheet. Chief Partridge said he had prior arrests for felony assault, escapes and other charges. Partridge said, “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets.”
The chief said at 12:11 a.m. an Oxford Police Officer was doing a report before his lunch when the suspect, Lanier, carjacked someone at gunpoint at Waffle House.
Investigators said Lanier shot at officers and then led them on a chase from I-20 to Airport Road. Partridge said Lanier shot at officers while driving on I-20.
The officer-involved shooting happened at Airport Road and Alabama 21. Lanier was killed in the shooting.
Partridge said Lanier was using a weapon that was stolen from Moody Sunday.

So, out of all the Waffle Houses in Alabama to try a carjacking, this young genius just happens to pick the one where there’s a cop sitting in a patrol car across the street. More from Chief Partridge:

An angry Oxford Police Chief Bill Partridge identified the slain man as 26-year-old Alexander Kade Lanier and lashed out at a judicial system that he said puts police officers in danger of career criminals every day.
The past offenses include assault, first second and third degree, assault and battery of detention officers, hit and run in a stolen vehicle and possession of a gun during a burglary, Partridge said. Many of the offenses happened outside Alabama.
“You name it, he’s done it,” Partridge said of Lanier. “This individual shouldn’t be walking our streets. He should be in jail, and we shouldn’t be standing here today.”
“We’ve got problems with individuals walking our streets like this every single day and being let out of jail or walking away from rehab facilities who have major felonies and then we have to stand here, and we have to justify what we had to do.” . . .
“If this individual will shoot at police officers and carjack a vehicle right across the street from a uniformed marked unit, just imagine what he’d do to our citizens,’’ Partridge said. . . .
This is a very unfortunate incident,’’ Partridge said. “We shouldn’t be standing here because this man should be in jail.”
Partridge, a fierce advocate for law enforcement who is often outspoken about violence against police officers, tweeted this just hours before the shootout: “We continue to see officers shot and killed because individuals think it’s their right to pull gun on officers and resist. It’s never okay to resist or shoot at (law enforcement). Comply. Follow directions, complain later.”
Nationwide, he said, police officers are being shot at record pace by career criminals. On Friday alone, 13 police officers were wounded in shootings over a 24-hour period across four states.
“I’ll tell you what needs to be done. We need to stop passing laws that water down our criminal justice system and allow these individuals to walk our streets,’’ Partridge said.
“We shouldn’t be dealing with this,’’ the chief said. “These men and women shouldn’t be out here every day on our streets putting their life on the line because judges and courts allow these individuals to walk out of a door without bond or putting them in a rehab facility that is not as secure so they can just walk off and obtain a weapon and do this type of thing.”

Certainly, I agree with Chief Partridge, being “a fierce advocate for law enforcement” myself, although this is a stance I came to rather belatedly, long after I’d been in the vicinity of Oxford, Alabama, on dates which I cannot recall, your honor, although I’m sure I could come up with an alibi, if I needed one. But you’d have to talk to my Samoan attorney about all this. The main point is, I’m completely innocent, as far as you know.

See, there’s a reason I don’t have a 48-page rap sheet and didn’t die in a hail of police gunfire, the way Alexander Kade Lanier did. Unlike the deceased Mr. Lanier, I was not dumber than a box of rocks. The ancient proverb “crime doesn’t pay” is perhaps not literally true (some criminals do get rich), but the longer you stay in that game, the more likely you’ll end up behind bars or, as in this case, die in a hail of police gunfire.

Notice that Alexander Kade Lanier is of the Caucasian persuasion. That’s why CNN isn’t running the story 24/7 and nobody looted Walmart or toppled any Confederate monuments after the cops shot him dead.

“Social justice”? White guys don’t get none of that, so we can’t expect any televised news conferences by Ben Crump about this case.




 

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