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Darrell Brooks: Menace to Society

Posted on | November 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Darrell Brooks: Menace to Society

We are learning more about the perpetrator of the Waukesha massacre, including his arrest for battery in Fulton County, Georgia:

Police say the man accused of plowing into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin and killing six people was arrested in Union City earlier this year.
Police say Darrell E. Brooks, 39, drove his SUV through a parade in Waukesha last weekend. Five adults and an 8-year-old boy were killed and at least 60 other people were injured.
Brooks has been charged with five counts of intentional homicide, and prosecutors are expected to file a sixth charge.
A witness told police he heard Brooks hitting his girlfriend through the wall. The witness said he confronted Brooks, who then called the police and claimed the witness was harassing the couple.
Police were able to determine that Brooks was the aggressor and that his girlfriend had injuries consistent with domestic abuse.
Brooks was taken to the East Point Jail. It’s unclear what happened to the case after that or if Brooks was convicted of anything.

The New York Post did a deep dive on Brooks that found “his life of crime started 22 years ago when he was just 17 years old.” Among other charges, “in July 2020, he fired a gun at his nephew during a fight over a cellphone,” and police “found Brooks with a stolen Beretta 9mm handgun and a clear plastic baggie with three multi-colored methamphetamine pills inside.” Considering that Brooks was already a convicted felon, prohibited from possessing a firearm, you might think this incident would have resulted in a long prison sentence. Instead, “he was released in February 2021 on a $500 bail,” which is when he went to Georgia and was busted for beating his girlfriend in a motel about 10 miles from the Atlanta airport. With charges pending in Georgia — where officials apparently didn’t realize Brooks was wanted in Nevada for violating terms of his release as a convicted sex offender — Brooks returned to Milwaukee, where he soon committed further violence:

Brooks allegedly accosted the woman and knocked her cellphone out of her hand and then went after her in his Ford Escape when she fled.
He caught up with her at a BP gas station about a half mile from the motel and demanded she get in his car, court records allege. When she refused, he struck her in the face and then ran her over with his car, leaving the woman with “swelling to her lip and dry blood on her face” and “tire tracks on her left pants leg,” police said.
The ex-girlfriend later told cops that Brooks had allegedly threatened to kill her on multiple occasions, had previously tried to choke her and was jealous and controlling, according to police reports obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Brooks denied the allegations and suggested to police the woman made them up because she was drunk.
He ended up being charged with recklessly endangering safety, bail jumping, battery and disorderly conduct in the incident but was given an “inappropriately low” bail of $1,000, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm later said, leaving him free to wreak havoc on the Christmas parade about three weeks later.

So here is the timeline:

  • July 2020: Fires gun at nephew in Milwaukee.
  • February 2021: Released on $500 bail.
  • May 2021: Arrested for battery in Georgia.
  • November 2, 2021: Runs over girlfriend in Milwaukee.
  • November 19, 2021: Released on $1,000 bail.

On the day of his murderous rampage, Nov. 22, was again engaged in domestic violence, attacking an ex-girlfriend in Waukesha. She was seen “running away from him with a black eye just moments before the carnage unfolded.” Before police could respond to that attack, Brooks had fled the scene, and ignored officers who tried to stop him as he plowed through the parade route, killing six people and injuring dozens more.

As Glenn Reynolds observes, this is all a result of Democrat policies.




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.25.21

Posted on | November 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.25.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Violent Offenders In Jail Would Be Unfair
EBL: Sharpe’s Rifles, Mayor Of Kingstown, and Stephen Sondheim RIP
Twitchy: After Releasing Oil From SPR To Lower Energy Prices, Administration Moves To Raise Energy Prices
Louder With Crowder: Epstein Update! Huge List Of Alleged Conspirators!
Vox Popoli: The Four Clashing Civilizations, Black Friday Books, and A Very Dangerous Game
According To Hoyt: Government Failures Cause Kyles, also, Drowning In Chocolate
Monster Hunter Nation: Do I Unfairly Paint The Left With A Broad Brush?, also, WriterDojo S1E14 – Supporter Spectacular, Round 1!
Gab News: Shop In The Parallel Economy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Discipline Begets Discipline, also, Use The COVID Tyranny To Escape From The Larger Tyranny
American Conservative: How To Destroy A Democracy
American Greatness: Newsletter Peddlers Offended By Real Journalism Quit, also, Countering Red China’s Grand Strategy
American Power: DJIA Suffers Worst Trading Day Of 2021
American Thinker: Destroying Democracy By “Saving Democracy”, also, The Media’s Chickens Come Home To Roost In Wisconsin
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Book Review Friday
Babalu Blog: Member Of Cuba’s Most Powerful Family Flees Into Exile, Reveals Secrets About Life Atop The Communist Pyramid, also, Cuban Priest Alberto Reyes Speaks Out Against Dictatorship, Warns Of “Raging River Of Discontent”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For 11/26
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 3B Rocket Launches Military Comsat
Cafe Hayek: Don’t Forget Sweden, also, Focused Protection As Opposed To Lockdowns
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Don Surber: NYT Fears Democrats Will Pay Again For Obama, also, Branch Covidians Ramp Up The Fear Again
First Street Journal: The Mindlessness Of The Leftist Elites
Gates Of Vienna: Time To Panic Over The Latest Regularly Scheduled COVID Variant, also, “We’ll Wait Until Germany Takes Us In”
The Geller Report: Biden Approval Collapses To Single Digit, also, Leftist Media Who Incited Carnage Won’t Cover Waukesha Parade Attack As Death Toll Mounts
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Cosmic Turkey, and Shortages Are Becoming Serious
Hollywood In Toto: Why Procession Is Unlike Any Other Film Tackling Sexual Abuse, also, Howard Stern Waves The White Flag On “Freedom”
The Lid: Woke Salvation Army Won’t Take Whites’ Donations Unless They Offer “Sincere Apology” For Being Racists
Legal Insurrection: Freeing Britney Spears Is A victory For Natural Rights, also, Indiana Educator Who Exposed CRT In Curriculum Placed On Leave
Outkick: Ole Miss Cracks Miss. State 31-21 In The Egg Bowl, The Advice Jon Gruden Gave Derek Carr That Helped The Raiders Beat The Cowboys, and AT&T Stadium Concession Worker Fights Cowboys Fan In Wild Thanksgiving Throwdown
Power Line: Oh Joy! Another COVID Variant!, Thoughts From The Ammo Line, and Xi Who Must Be Obeyed
Shark Tank: Melania Trump Makes Visit To Florida Foster Care Organization
Shot In The Dark: Great Job, What Chimera Is This?, and Diagnosis – Malpractice
STUMP: Movember Inspiration – My Dad & The Sex Gap In Mortality
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Pentagon Stands Up New Aerial Phenomena Group, and Woman Charged With Plot To Steal $400,000 From Elderly & Veterans
Transterrestrial Musings: Climate Models
Victory Girls: Chappelle Holiday Roasts High School Students For The Win, also, Notre Dame Cathedral Restoration Going Woke
Volokh Conspiracy: University Administrators On The Rittenhouse Verdict
Weasel Zippers: Cook Report Shifts Democrat Senate Seats In AZ, GA, & NV To “Toss-Up”, Dems Lament The Coming Mid-Term Doom, also, Nantucket Man Reportedly Gives Biden The Finger
The Federalist: This Thanksgiving We Learned It’s Time To Banish Roger Goodell To Canada, also, L.A. Public Schools Teach Students That Celebrating Thanksgiving Is Evil
Mark Steyn: Light At The End Of The Tunnel, also, A Mix-up In The Mixing Up

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In The Mailbox: 11.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 26, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.26.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I brought home the Butterball Turkey dinner from Raley’s earlier in the week and spent a couple of hours warming it up yesterday. All very tasty and now I have leftovers for the next fortnight. How was your Thanksgiving?
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Komi’s mom in the kitchen

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Do You Think A Woke DA Can Change?
Doug Ross: Capitalism Is The Ultimate Form Of Humanism
EBL: Vintage Thanksgiving
Twitchy: “Tell Us You’re A Racist Elitist Without Telling Us You’re A Racist Elitist”
Louder With Crowder: Firefighter (Allegedly) Drops Trou, Wipes Butt With Vax Mandate Order
Vox Popoli: The Salvation Army Converges, also, They Tried To Cancel Thanksgiving

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Let’s Get Rid Of The Federal Government & All Sing Kumbaya
American Greatness: Losing Confidence In The Pillars Of Our Civilization, also, For The Holidays, Give The Gift Of Grace
American Power: The War On Thanksgiving
American Thinker: Why The 400th Anniversary Of Thanksgiving Matters, also, The Rejection Of Communism On Thanksgiving
Animal Magnetism: Happy Thanksgiving!
Babalu Blog: Apartheid Tourists Begin Arriving In Plague-Stricken Cuba, also, Over 15,000 Cubans Have Arrived Illegally From Mexico In The Last 15 Months
BattleSwarm: Things To Be Grateful For – Salt
Behind The Black: Russia Launches Military Recon Sat, also, Red China Launches Classified Military Satellite
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Happy Thanksgiving
Don Surber: USA 3, BLM 0, also, Erasing The Waukesha Massacre In Real Time
First Street Journal: Killadelphia! The City of Brotherly Love Ties For The Gold
Gates Of Vienna: Nun Danket Alle Gott
The Geller Report: “The Mouse Didn’t Roar”, also, Democrats’ Solution To Inflation? Charge Your Guests & Don’t Buy Turkey
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Sonification Of The Bubble Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: C’mon C’mon & Encanto, also, Debra Messing Calls Out Corrupt Media Coverage Of Terror Attack
The Lid: The Top Ten Reasons You Shouldn’t Talk Politics On Thanksgiving
Legal Insurrection: JMU Instagram Page Says Rittenhouse Killed Two Black People, also, Women’s March Provides Unexpected Thanksgiving Hilarity
Nebraska Energy Observer: It’s Thanksgiving, NEO! also, Thanksgiving History
Outkick: LeBron Has Pacers Fans Ejected, Still Silent On Red China, We Should Be Thankful For America, and Lions Remain Winless, Fall To Bears On Thanksgiving 
Power Line: America’s First Socialist Republic, Why People Hate The News Media, and Will Disparate Impact Destroy America?
Shark Tank: Combat Vet To Launch Investigation On Biden’s Arming Of Terrorists
The Political Hat: Happy Thanksgiving 2021!
This Ain’t Hell: A Modern Thanksgiving Tradition Of Sorts
Transterrestrial Musings: Happy Thanksgiving
Victory Girls: Guilt Served Up On Thanksgiving Plates This Year
Volokh Conspiracy: Today In Supreme Court History, 11/25/1757
Weasel Zippers: Biden Spends Thanksgiving At Billionaire’s Mansion Complete With Servants & Security Guards, also, Before Taking Cokehead Son & Second Wife To Billionaire’s For Thanksgiving, Joe Biden Says You Need To “Get Some Perspective”
The Federalist: No, Thanksgiving Isn’t About Genocide & Violence
Mark Steyn: Over The River & Through The Woods

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Thanksgiving in Georgia

Posted on | November 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Thanksgiving in Georgia

We spent Thursday on the road, down I-81 and then went through the Smoky Mountains on I-26 before heading south into north Georgia, near the site of America’s first gold rush, to spend the holiday weekend with all of our kids and grandchildren — that’s six kids, one son-in-law, three daughters-in-law, one girlfriend, and five grandchildren. That’s a total of 18 people, plus both of my brothers, a good-sized crowd of McCains.

While I was out on the road, the news kept happening:

Violent death, sexual perversion, pandemic disease — the apocalypse keeps rolling along. And I’m in Georgia, enjoying a Thanksgiving feast.

We should be more grateful than we are for the blessings of a normal life, even if we are paying $1.20 more for a gallon of gas (#LetsGoBrandon).

It’s easier to complain about our misfortunes and disappointments — the Raiders beat the Cowboys and the Bills beat the Saints — than to be grateful that our lives are basically OK, in an age where it seems it’s becoming more difficult to be basically OK. My daughters just popped into the motel dining room where I’m working, then quickly departed to go do their Black Friday shopping. And I’m grateful they’re basically OK.

Our youngest daughter (Reagan) and youngest son (Emerson) are in college, while the next-youngest (Jefferson) is getting ready for law school next year (awaiting his LSAT scores). Emerson’s already married, as are our three oldest, all of whom are homeowners with kids of their own. All in all, our Victory Through Breeding™ agenda — the McCain Plan for Global Domination — seems to be working out.

Why aim for anything less that Global Domination? Sure, it could take a few generations before my descendants control the world — trust me, I’ve done the arithmetic — but as long as we keep this long-term goal in mind, our tasks in the short term become easier to understand.

The reason I bring this up, of course, is that the source of disappointment is the distance between expectation and reality. Even if our circumstances are objectively good — hey, we’re living the American Dream — we may feel disappointed because results fall short of our expectations, our hopes, our ambitions. The higher our expectations, the more likely we will be disappointed by the reality of our lives. It’s important to keep this in mind, attempting to view our lives objectively, no matter how high our ambitions may be. Considering that my ultimate goal is Global Domination — because why not? — it would be easy to get discouraged by short-term disappointments. For example, we haven’t had a new grandchild since Luca was born two years ago, which represents a lag in the Grandchild Production Quota. When you’re aiming at Global Domination, you tend to think of grandchildren with a statistical graph in mind, charting the output-per-unit calculations and so forth.

Objectively, you see, most people would think five grandkids to be a fine number, but the McCain Plan for Global Domination requires a perspective that evaluates this metric differently than “most people” (who, after all, are destined to be subjugated, according to the Plan).

All sarcasm aside, however, the point is that we have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving that any complaints would seem silly. Here I am, enjoying free coffee and free breakfast at the motel — with free Wifi even! — and certainly it would be churlish for me to complain.

“The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”
— Robert E. Lee

When one considers the hardships and misfortunes that our ancestors endured, how easy and fortunate our lives seem by comparison. We ought never to let discouragement prevent us from working toward a better future — and, of course, by “better,” I mean Global Domination.

Did I mention that everything is “free” at this motel because three nights cost us $500? As always, I would be grateful for readers who remember that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Thanks in advance. This Global Domination stuff ain’t cheap.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Family, Fear. Loathing., Georgia

David Brooks Fisking Day Returns?

Posted on | November 25, 2021 | Comments Off on David Brooks Fisking Day Returns?

The basic problem with David Brooks is that he hasn’t been punched in the face as often as he deserves to be punched in the face.

Which is to say, repeatedly, on a daily basis.

On two occasions, I happened to be at conferences where David Brooks was a speaker, and in both instances, I walked out of the room, overcome by rage, struggling to resist an urge to rush the stage, grab hold of that swine and pummel him until the cops hauled me off to jail.

Really, what’s a simple assault charge in Washington, D.C.? The city is so overwhelmed with serious violent crime that I doubt I’d get more than probation and a fine for beating up David Brooks, besides which nobody actually likes him. If I went for a jury trial, pro se, I’m pretty sure I could convince twelve honest citizens that clobbering David Brooks should not be considered a crime. Hell, it’s a civic duty. Anyway . . .

This week, Brooks published — in The Atlantic, where else? — an article titled, “The Terrifying Future of the American Right.” What was so “terrifying” about the recent gathering of conservatives in Orlando about which Brooks wrote this lamentable article? Anyone can read his description of the event and try to find something “terrifying,” and good luck with that. What the people at the conference are guilty of, really, is not giving a damn what readers of The Atlantic think about them.

Misanthropic Humanitarian at AOSHQ has further thoughts on Brooks, but unfortunately, none of them involve punching Brooks in the face.

Repeatedly, as he deserves.




 

Category: David Brooks Fisking Day

In The Mailbox: 11.24.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 25, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.24.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“At work they call me 007: 0 ability, 0 motivation, and 7 trips to the bathroom.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1546
357 Magnum: Freddie Mercury, 9/5/46-11/24/91
McG’s Tally Book: Annus Horribilis
Red Pilled Jew: The Jab – Medical Providers Are Now On Notice
EBL: Arbery Trial Verdicts – Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
Twitchy: “Sick On So Many Levels”, also, Rick Scott Drags Nancy Pelosi Over Her Alleged Purchase Of Florida Mansion
Louder With Crowder: Doocy Bombs Bad Orange Woman – How About Joe Apologize To Kyle Rittenhouse For Calling Him A White Supremacist?
Vox Popoli: The Mark Of The Corporate Beast, The Number Of The Vial, and Restoring History At Arktoons

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Are At Stage 7, also, Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
American Conservative: National Conservatives’ Red China Dilemma
American Greatness: Five Moderate Democrats Shoot Down Saule Omarova’s Nomination, also,  Here’s A List of Leftist Liars Whose Hands Are Stained With Waukesha’s Blood
American Power: Sixth Victim Has Died Followin Waukesha Parade Attack, also, Trump’s Vote Fraud Claims Becoming Litmus Test For Republican Office-Seekers
American Thinker: The Bleak Misery Of A Leftist Thanksgiving
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day Nudes
Babalu Blog: Che Simp Jay-Z Inducted Into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, also, Cuba’s Dictatorship Has Created A Racist Society In Which Black Lives Don’t Matter And The American Left Could Care Less
BattleSwarm: So Just Who Does GoFundMe Allow To Raise Bail?
Behind The Black: Russia Successfully Launches Progress With New Docking Hub For ISS, also, Ingenuity Completes 16th Mars Flight
Cafe Hayek: The Only Escape From Risk Is Death, also, Protectionism’s (Il)Logic
CDR Salamander: The Ice Won’t Break Itself
Don Surber: Biden’s Failing COVID Program, also, The Media Doesn’t Want Our Trust
First Street Journal: Philadelphia Ties For The Silver!
Gates Of Vienna: The New “Good” And The New Evil, Forget The Jews, Blame The Unvaxxed!, and Don’t Mention The War
The Geller Report: DeSantis Blasts Biden, Calls Inflation “Huge Problem”, Promises Gas Tax Relief, also, Most of The Oil Released From the Petroleum Reserve Is Going To Russia & India
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, The Case Of The Missing Planet, and Anniversaries
Hollywood In Toto: J.K. Rowling Stands Tall After Doxxing & Death Threats, also, Why Is Hollywood So Liberal?
The Lid: Remembering William F. Buckley Jr., Who Drove The Anti-Semites Out Of Conservatism
Legal Insurrection: Pre-Christmas Pillaging Of San Francisco Stores Continues For Third Day, also, Liberals Pounce On Andy Ngo For Posting Inconvenient Facts On Waukesha Parade Attack Suspect
Michelle Malkin: Black Lies Matter
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosus, Chapter 16
Outkick: Alabama Drops To #3 Behind Ohio State, Does Aaron Rodgers Have “COVID Toe”? and Enes Kanter’s Stance On Red China Is Brave & Admirable
Power Line: Woke Numerology, The O’Keefe Project – What’s Going On? and Biden & His Tools
Shark Tank: DeSantis Slams Biden For Delisting Terror Group FARC, Fried Staffer Rides To Sleepy Joe’s Rescue
Shot In The Dark: Time’s, Er, Up, Mark Twain On The Rittenhouse Case, and The Left Destroys Everything It Touches
The Political Hat: The State Of Education In Schools
This Ain’t Hell: Thugs Attack Man In Wheelchair, also, WW2 Nurse, Bulge Vet, & Sioux Elder Dies At 102
Transterrestrial Musings: Losing The Pillars Of Civilization
Victory Girls: George Soros – Blood Money & Blood On His Hands, also, Keep Thanksgiving Simple
Volokh Conspiracy: Arbery Case Highlights Problem Of Insider Favoritism In Law Enforcement
Weasel Zippers: Actress Helen Mirren Branded Racist For Playing Golda Meir, also, Woman Laughs Off Mask Karens
The Federalist: Yes, Joe Biden’s Policies Are Making Your Thanksgiving Dinner More Expensive, also, New Olympic Committee Rules Essentially End Womens’ Sports
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, Thanksgiving In Wisconsin, and Heavy Weather & Bullying Manner

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In The Mailbox: 11.24.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 24, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.24.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Milwaukee DA John Chisholm Has Blood On His Hands
Twitchy: Molly Jong-Fast is tired of ‘being trolled by everyone from the Right’ for her ‘humor essay’ on shaming conservative relatives at Thanksgiving
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Hammers Colbert – Rich Libs Using Rittenhouse To Take Away Your Self-Defense Rights
Vox Popoli: He Was Always Sketchy
Gab News: Welcome To Gab, Congressman

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Media Did Its Job, also, There Is No Place For Politics In Spirituality
American Greatness: Rittenhouse Hints That Defamation Lawsuits Are In The Works, also, The Select Committee Is Covering Up 1/6 Police Brutality
American Power: Kenosha, Portland, & The Lies
American Thinker: The Disturbing & Shocking Plan To Replace Kamala Harris
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Blue Confederacy News
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s Vaunted Healthcare – “Neglect At Home, Profits Abroad”
BattleSwarm: Samsung To Build $17 Billion Fab In Taylor Texas
Behind The Black: Red China Launches Another Earth Observation Satellite, also, SpaceX Successfully Launches NASA Asteroid Mission
Cafe Hayek: Should We Help Workers Who Lose Jobs to Imports? also, Logrolling Good & Bad
CDR Salamander: Are Our Intellectual Actions Aligned With Our Security Challenges?
Da Tech Guy: More Important Than JFK
Don Surber: Democrats Go Woke & Get Broke, also, Lin Wood Let Us All Down
Gates Of Vienna: Gerald Grosz – The Vax Doesn’t Work! also, Waiting For The Corona Boxcar
The Geller Report: Whistleblower Drops Video Of Delaware County Pa. Election Officials Destroying Evidence & Ballots, also, Rittenhouse – Biden Attacked My Character With “Actual Malice”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Polling Too Far In Advance, and An Unusual Dwarf
Hollywood In Toto: Tucker Carlson & Nick Searcy Target Extreme Media Bias, also, House Of Gucci Can’t Pick A Lane
The Lid: Waukesha DA Chisholm Designed Bail Reform, Said It Was Guaranteed To Kill Innocent People
Legal Insurrection: Catholic U. Of America Has Painting Depicting George Floyd As Jesus Christ, also, UNC Medical School Embedding Social Justice Policy Through “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion” 
Monster Hunter Nation: One Of The Many Dumb Hot Takes On The Rittenhouse Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Dammit, Boys, They’re Getting Away, also, The Peter Principle
Outkick: Wouldn’t It Be Cool If Lane Kiffin Stayed At Ole Miss?, WTA Deserves Applause For Standing up To Red China, also, WSJ Won’t Cancel Thanksgiving Editorials
Power Line: Is There Life After The Playpen?, Biden Hits The Panic Button As WH Civil War Intensifies, and Critique Of Pure Tucker
Shark Tank: DeSantis Will “Fully Fund” Gas Tax Holiday, Increase Teacher & First Responder Pay
Shot In The Dark: A Nation Divided, also, No News Is Acceptable News
The Political Hat: When You Are Your Own Gender
This Ain’t Hell: Ukraine Says Their Intel Points To A Russian Attack By Late January, An Epidemic Of Lapdog Generals, and Tuesdays With TikTok Liberals
Transterrestrial Musings:
Victory Girls: Roundup Time – Happy Vs. The Left
Volokh Conspiracy: Another Case About “Bringing About The Difficulty”
Weasel Zippers: Biden Lies Again, Claiming Americans’ Wages Are Up, CNN Host Jokes About Throwing Trump Supporters In Jail, and Politifact Calls BS On Bad Orange Woman’s Inflation Claims
The Federalist: Rittenhouse Coverage Showcases Media’s Obsession With Stoking Race Wars, also, Legacy News Ignores Hunter Biden Report On Securing Red Chinese Mineral Monopoly
Mark Steyn: Nothing To See Here, The Pop Star As Dictatorial Suckup, and Court Is In Session

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Killadelphia Update

Posted on | November 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Killadelphia Update

Last year, the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia was worse than Chicago. It takes a lot of effort to be worse than Chicago, but Philadelphia — a/k/a “Killadelphia” — is up to the challenge, and is now on pace to break the city’s all-time annual murder total of 500, a record set in 1990 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. Basically, you could put police crime-scene tape around the entire city; every sidewalk in Philadelphia is covered in chalk outlines of slain victims.

OK, maybe I got a little carried away there, but it’s difficult to exaggerate how deadly conditions are in Philadelphia now:

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said on Monday that whoever was responsible for killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child as she was unloading gifts from her baby shower will face two counts of murder.
The victim, identified as Jessica Covington, 32, was shot 11 times in the head and belly on Saturday night in what police believe was a targeted shooting.
Deputy Police Commissioner Christine Coulter demanded that progressive DA Krasner take action amid a massive surge of gun violence.
‘Children are getting shot, unborn children getting shot, what is the city doing about this?’ she asked.
Police were said to be questioning a suspect in connection with Covington’s killing on Monday, but no arrests or charges have been announced as of late afternoon.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Krasner said Covington’s killing made him ‘sick.’ He said the person or persons who took the pregnant woman’s life and that of her unborn baby will ‘very likely’ face two counts of murder.
He praised police for ‘working nonstop and doing an amazing job with this case.’
Krasner has cut the number of prosecutions for gun crime and cops are blaming him for a huge spike in shootings a homicides.
Police in Philadelphia have made a record number of arrests for illegal gun possession this year – but the suspects’ chances of getting convicted dropped to 49 per cent from 63 per cent in 2017, analysis by the found.
There have been 491 homicide victims in 2021 – a 14 per cent increase from last year’s number of 436, and 283 in 2019.
Krasner boasts on his website that he has cut incarceration rates by 24,800 years, cut supervision by 102,400 years, never used the death penalty and helped exonerate 23 people.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw has said that Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has become a ‘revolving door’ for repeat gun offenders since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.

This is the problem with Democrats talking tough on gun control. You hear them talk about “getting guns off our streets,” but they don’t want to prosecute the people who are actually committing crimes with those guns — because all the criminals are Democrats.

Dana Pico at First Street Journal has been following the grisly “Killadelphia” death toll, and Ed Driscoll at Instapundit calls attention to the role of “progressive reforms” in the nationwide crime wave:

[Milwaukee County DA John] Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and “low-level” felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he’s taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement.
Chisholm and other progressives support reforms to the cash-bail system, which they say criminalizes poverty. He has acknowledged that his reform-minded approach could put murderers back on the streets of Milwaukee.
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. “You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
The Milwaukee DA said his office recommended $1,000 bail for [Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell] Brooks following his arrest on Nov. 5 on charges that he punched his girlfriend in the face and hit her with his vehicle in a gas station parking lot. The woman is identified only by her initials in court papers, which indicate they have a child together. Brooks was also charged with eluding police officers when they arrived to take him into custody.

What Democrats don’t want to admit is that crime is a people problem. It is easy to focus on guns, but the inanimate object does not kill people. Democrats have trained their media allies to mindlessly repeat the phrase “gun violence,” but my guns are not involved in violence. My podcast partner John Hoge has a rather substantial arsenal of firearms, none of which has ever been involved in “gun violence.”

Rhetoric that demonizes law-abiding gun owners is necessary to the Democratic Party agenda of absolving themselves and their constituents of responsibility. Nothing that goes wrong in Philadelphia — or Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, etc. — is the fault of the people directly involved, because those people vote Democrat. The voters who elect Democrats must be held blameless for their problems, and the blame must be transferred to scapegoats — which is why phrases like “white privilege” and “systemic racism” have entered the political lexicon.

The kind of “reforms” implemented by Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner are aimed at ending the “racial injustice” of putting criminals in prison, as if there were something deliberately unfair about the demographic profile of the prison population, as if law enforcement and the court system were letting white criminals go unpunished. Well, where are all these white murderers in Philadelphia? What has Larry Krasner done to end the “white privilege” that lets these perpetrators get off scot-free?

These are rhetorical questions, obviously. The population of Philadelphia County is 44% black and 34% non-Hispanic white. Fifteen percent of the county population is Hispanic and 8% are Asian. But these other demographic groups are not implicated in the “gun violence” epidemic that has Philadelphia on pace to set a new homicide record.

In 2020, Joe Biden officially won Pennsylvania by a margin of 80,555 votes. He got 603,790 votes in Philadelphia County.

So the dishonest blame game will continue, and the bodies of homicide victims will keep piling up in “Killadelphia,” because Democrats like Larry Krasner don’t want to arrest the criminals whose votes elect them.




 

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