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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.




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 11.22.21

Posted on | November 23, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.22.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Trial & The Verdict That Didn’t Get National Media Attention
EBL: King Richard, also, Where Is Peng Shuai?
Twitchy: Jennifer Granholm Says The Quiet Parts Out Loud Trying To Explain “Energy Transition”, also, Winsome Sears Schools CNN’s Dana Bash On CRT Being Taught In Virginia Schools
Louder With Crowder: Kid Rock Drops New Single Guaranteed To Trigger Liberals & The Media, also, Watch Little Girl Use Karate To Stop Joe Biden From Touching Her
Vox Popoli: Inversion Is Not Cohesion, Flushing The Cucks, and Warning To Canadian Parents

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Small Battles In Large Wars, also, The Watershed Moment For Rittenhouse
American Conservative: Woke is Whiteface, also, Don’t Be That Guy This Thanksgiving
American Greatness: The Right Outcome For Rittenhouse, But…, also, Suspect In Waukesha Christmas Parade Attack Identified
American Power: Ship Captain’s Dead Body Kept In Freezer For Six Months, also, Think Gas Prices Are Too High? In This Calif. County A Gallon Of Regular Is $6
American Thinker: Is The Air Force Academy Honor Code Dead? also, If The Vaccines Work – Why Aren’t They Working?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: How Fidel’s Revolution Put An End To Black Agency In Communist Cuba, also, TIME Magazine Blames U.S. For Suppressing Dissent & Blocking Internet In Cuba
BattleSwarm: The Battle of Cambrai 11/20/1917, More Rittenhouse Trial Fallout, and Pumping The Brakes On That “Natural Democrat Majority”
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Senate Democrats Try To Sneak $10 Billion Payoff To Blue Origin Into Military Budget, and Astra Successfully Completes First Orbital Launch
Cafe Hayek: Why Can’t These Officious Scoundrels Simply Leave Us Alone? also, Phil Magness Responds To Nancy McLean
CDR Salamander: The Fat Leonard Podcast – On Midrats, also, Some Damn Fool Thing In Ukraine
Da Tech Guy: What Didn’t Go Well In Virginia, also, Lots Of Illinoisans Are Crossing The Wisconsin State Line – Permanently
Don Surber: Masks & Vax Mandates Don’t Work, We Broke Woke, and Democrat Heroes Are Always Criminals
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, At What Point Do Purposeful Omissions Become Deliberate Lies?
Gates Of Vienna: Deja Vu All Over Again, Mutti Is Worried About The Migrant Crisis On The Polish Border, and Och, The Puir Wee Bosnian Bairns!
The Geller Report: Corrupt CNN Craps Their Culottes, also, U.S. Citizens Still Trapped In Afghanistan, Ignored By Administration
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Andromeda In IR, and Suggested Reading
Hollywood In Toto: Why The Hard Way Is Funny & Shockingly Relevant Today, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Avoids Wokeness & Scores Big Box Office, and Disney Stars Mourn Convicted Pedophile
The Lid: A Guide To Hanukkah For Gentiles & Secular Jews, also, Beto Sticks To His Guns But Apparently Not Yours
Legal Insurrection: U. Texas Plan To Teach CRT To 4-Year-Olds On Hold, Former NYT Reporter Says Paper Held Article On Kenosha Riots Until After 2020 Election, and Va. School Board Assn. Cuts Ties With NSBA After “Domestic Terrorist” Letter
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Augsburg Confession
Outkick: LeBron Responds To Enes Kanter But Doesn’t Address Red China, Quebec City & The NHL Bringing Back The Nordiques? and NBC’s Bizarre Thanksgiving Cost-Cutting Advice To Survive Bidenflation
Power Line: Get Woke, Empty The Pews, Russia Hoax Whitewash Era Begins, and Putin Unimpressed By Biden’s “Warnings” About Ukraine
Shark Tank: Fla. Democrat Jones Wants To Repeal “Stand Your Ground” Laws
Shot In The Dark: Rittenhouse – Good News, Bad News, Word Salad With A Side Of Crocodile Tears, and Pattern Recognition
The Political Hat: White Privilege Of Asians
This Ain’t Hell: Army Orders Commanders To Bar Unvaxxed From Re-enlistment, Another Three Are Known, and Will Beta O’Rourke Be The Next Governor Of Texas?
Victory Girls: Democrat Donkeys Don’t Care About Facts, also, Enes Kanter Backhands Red China Over Peng Shuai
Volokh Conspiracy: The Case For Compensating Victims Of Trump’s Child Separation Policy
Weasel Zippers: Bad Orange Woman Denies Staffing Shortages Due To Biden’s Jab Mandate Despite Public Outcry, also, Sean Parnell Stands Down Senate Campaign
The Federalist: ESPN’s Richard Jefferson Apologizes For False Rittenhouse Info, SNL – Liz Cheney Is The GOP’s Rachel Dolezal, and Rittenhouse Trial Proves Media Want Trial By Fury, Not Trial By Jury
Mark Steyn: Is That a Gun In Your Pocket? Barbara Stanwyck & Forty Guns, Just A Gigolo, and Christmas Carnage

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Waukesha Massacre: Killer SUV Driver Is Rapper, Career Criminal Out on Bond

Posted on | November 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Waukesha Massacre: Killer SUV Driver Is Rapper, Career Criminal Out on Bond

Police took their time before naming the “person of interest” who killed five people and injured dozens more when he plowed a red Ford SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, but the identity and criminal record of Darrell Brooks are extensively documented:

The man who was taken into custody in connection with the Waukesha Christmas parade tragedy told police that his name was Darrell Brooks Jr. when he was detained, and they found a Ford key on him, according to scanner audio obtained by Heavy.
Police squads were at a Milwaukee address used by Darrell Brooks Jr. after his name was mentioned on the scanner in connection with the Waukesha parade incident in which at least 40 people, including many children, were injured when a red Ford Escape plowed through the crowd. He complained of shoulder pain when taken into custody.
Heavy confirmed that two Milwaukee police squads were outside the home listed to Brooks on N. 19th St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Heavy also obtained audio from the scanner indicating Waukesha police obtained an ID in the name Darrell Brooks Jr. inside the red Ford Escape they recovered in connection with the Waukesha parade investigation. He also goes by the name Darrell E. Brooks Jr., and Darrell Edward Brooks, Jr. He is 39-years-old. He had prolific social media accounts, but some have already been deleted.
The City of Waukesha now says that five people are deceased and over 40 are injured. “However, these numbers may change as we collect additional information. Many people have self-transported to area hospitals. The Police Department has the person of interest in custody,” they wrote, without naming that person. . . .
Darrell Brooks Jr. raps under the name MathBoi Fly. He had a YouTube channel with rap music videos, but it’s been deleted. A red SUV could be seen behind him in one of the videos . . .
Brooks has an extremely long criminal history including open cases.
Darrell E. Brooks Jr. of 19th Street has open charges filed November 5, 2021, in Milwaukee courts for resisting an officer (misdemeanor), felony bail jumping, second degree recklessly endangering safety (felony) with domestic abuse assessments, disorderly conduct and battery (both misdemeanors, also with domestic abuse assessments.)
He posted $1,000 cash bail on November 19, 2021.
That’s despite the fact he has another open felony case in Milwaukee County, from 2020.
That case is for second-degree recklessly endangering safety – felony with use of a dangerous weapon (two counts) and possessing firearm convicted of a felony (felony charge.) The case was filed in July 2020, but it remains pending. Milwaukee County courts is dealing with a major backlog in cases.

Just to interrupt here: Felon in possession of a firearm is a very serious crime, and the fact that he was turned loose on bail in such a case speaks volumes about the leniency — and disregard for public safety — in the criminal justice system. To continue:

In the above case, hearings were repeatedly adjourned. He requested a speedy trial, but the court tolled the time limits for that (this has occurred recently because of a two-year backlog, the chief judge has said, which she has attributed to COVID. The backlog also persists with jury trials, she said.)
In February 2021, with Judge David Feiss presiding, the court lowered his bail to $500, noting, “Due to reasons stated on the record, the court is unable to honor the speedy trial demand in this case. Defense bail motion argued and GRANTED by the Court. The Court lowered cash bail to $500.00.”
In June 2021, the court notes say, “Matter scheduled for Jury Trial. Parties are ready to proceed. Due to court congestion, Court is unable to hear jury trial at this time.”
The case continued, with some plea negotiations. “JusticePoint PreTrial Services Supervision/VIOLATION Report dated November 10, 2021; received and filed,” says a recent entry. There was a “further proceedings” on November 11, the last date.
He has these prior convictions:
Bail jumping (misdemeanor) and marijuana possession (misdemeanor).
Marijuana possession second plus offense (felony). 2011.
Obstruct an officer (misdemeanor). 2005 and 2003.
Marijuana possession (felony). 2002.
Substantial battery (felony). 1999.

Those are just his convictions in Wisconsin, however:

Darrell Edward Brooks, 39, who is accused of plowing into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, was convicted of statutory sexual seduction in November of 2006.
Brooks was convicted of this crime in Sparks, Nevada.
He is a tier 2 offender, the second most serious class of sex offenders in the Nevada Sex Offender Registry.
Tier 2 offenders are registered for 25 years and have to personally check in with police once every 180 days.

In a video posted to social media, Brooks denied being a pedophile, saying that the incident involved the mother of one of his children. Brooks said he was “pimping on the bitch” in Nevada, but he “didn’t know the bitch was 16.” Can you imagine the cultural standards of a “community” in which this is considered an acceptable explanation? But what about a community that turns such criminal loose?

The shamefaced Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office admitted on Monday it was ‘inappropriate’ for convicted felon Darrell Brooks to be allowed out of jail on a $1,000 bond three weeks ago after trying to run over his ex-girlfriend, as he was charged with five counts of murder for the lives he took at the Waukesha Christmas Parade on Sunday night. . . .
On Sunday he was fleeing the scene of a domestic dispute when he crashed into the crowds after smashing through safety barriers and breezing past cops. One officer tried to stop him by shooting at his car but he stopped because there were too many people around for him to safely fire his weapon.
Police had just arrived at the home that Brooks had fled when he plowed into the parade crowds, killing five adults. . . . The Waukesha Police Department have now arrested Brooks on five murder charges.
On November 2, he was arrested on domestic violence charges after trying to ‘run over’ his ex, the mother of his child, at a gas station. His bond was set at $1,000 and he posted it on November 11th.
On Monday morning, the Milwaukee County DA’s Office released a statement admitting it was ‘inappropriately low’ given his criminal history. They said they’d launched an internal review as to why he was able to get out on bond to commit more crimes. . . .
‘The bail recommendation in this case is not consistent with the approach of the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office toward matters involving violent crime, nor was it consistent with the risk assessment of the defendant prior to setting of bail.
‘This office is currently conducting an internal review of the decision to make the recent bail recommendation in this matter in order to determine the appropriate next steps,’ the statement said.

This is CYA bullshit. The district attorney in Milwaukee is a Soros-funded radical who bragged about eliminated cash bail. This is now the official policy of the Democratic Party — because cash bail allegedly has a “disparate impact” on the black community, criminals are turned loose and this policy is celebrated as “social justice.” Until one of the criminals runs over four or five dozen people, and then the DA’s official will issue a statement announcing an “internal review.”

And if you don’t like it, that makes you a white supremacist, and next thing you know, the FBI will be knocking on your door. This is Joe Biden’s America. This is what happens when you elect Democrats.

How many of the people who got run over by Darrell Brooks voted for Joe Biden? Do you think the survivors might regret their votes?




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Lauren Southern – Canadian Spitfire

Posted on | November 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Lauren Southern – Canadian Spitfire

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Former Rebel Media journalist, filmmaker (Crossfire, Borderless and Farmlands) and writer, Lauren Southern is all about telling the stories that the corrupt corporate media doesn’t want you to hear, whether it’s white South African farmers being butchered by black thugs, illegal immigrants in Europe, or the Soros-backed efforts to make our cities anarchic hellholes. Smart and good-looking is quite a combination, and Lauren’s done quite a job. Links to her documentaries, YouTube videos, etc., are available on her website.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1540, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Linguistics Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: MAGA Rittenhouse, Enya, Blondie, Julie London, Irene Byon – NBC Jury Intimidator?, The Bourne Legacy, Sza, Land, The Song Of Lunch, Red Notice, Brit Bake Show Babes, and Sophia Uri(ne)sta

A View From The Beach: Rule 5 Saturday – Holly Valance, Fish Pic  Friday – One Fishy Nurse, MD Balloon Release Ban Goes Into Effect, The Wednesday Wetness, They’s Owed Them Ersters, Hate, Monday Morning Stimulus, I Guess She Doesn’t Suffer from ‘Shy Bladder’ and Palm Sunday

Brian J. Noggle: On Horse Feathers & Duck Soup

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Farewell To A Master

Posted on | November 21, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Farewell To A Master

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A tribute to a master by his fellow masters.

I rarely cross the streams like this, but it seems important to note that one of the great SF and fantasy writers of my generation is hanging up the keyboard. David Drake, who I have been reading since my high school days fifty years ago when the late Jim Baen published “Under The Hammer” in Galaxy magazine, has been having some issues lately with concentration, and it’s gotten to the point where it’s impossible for him to write novels any more. So he’s calling it a career. Hopefully he’ll visit a few conventions in his retirement and enjoy some much-deserved adulation from his fans. So, in lieu of the usual musical reference and link, I’ll be posting links to a few of my favorite Drake books; the teaser pic this week is from a tribute anthology by Baen published in 2015, full of excellent stories by Larry Corriea, Sarah Hoyt, and others, along with appreciations by (among others) S.M. Stirling and Toni Weisskopf.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

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

Kenosha: Media-Induced Mistrial?
Tai-Chi Policy
Da Tech Guy
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

If the Patriots Beat the Browns…
EBL

When the ‘Progressive Bubble’ Bursts
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Do You Wanna Hit It?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Patriots Dominate Browns, 45-7
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.15.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Kenosha: Expect a Hung Jury
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.16.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Killer Lesbians: Pennsylvania Couple Investigated in Homicide of Two Girls
357 Magnum
EBL

Kenosha: Verdict Today? Or Never?
357 Magnum
EBL

KYLE RITTENHOUSE ACQUITTED ON ALL COUNTS IN KENOSHA
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.19.21 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 11.19.21 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending November 19:

  1.  EBL (14)
  2.  357 Magnum (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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They’re BA-A-A-A-ACK!

Posted on | November 21, 2021 | Comments Off on They’re BA-A-A-A-ACK!

Belichick’s boys are looking good:

Despite starting the season with a 2-4 record, the New England Patriots now have the inside track to win their division. Not only has the team won five straight to move to 7-4 on the year, it also leapfrogged the Buffalo Bills in the standings in Week 11.
While the Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons 25-0 on Thursday Night, the Bills were blown out 41-15 by the Indianapolis Colts. The defeat has now dropped Buffalo to 6-4 on the year, and below its AFC East rivals in the standings.
The division now looks as follows 11 games in:

New England Patriots (7-4)
Buffalo Bills (6-4)
Miami Dolphins (4-7)
New York Jets (2-8)

Obviously, though, nothing is decided in the AFC East just yet. After all, New England and Buffalo will still have to meet twice this season: the Patriots will travel to Western New York in Week 13 before welcoming the reigning division champs to Gillette Stadium in Week 16.
Both games will have massive implications on the AFC East and the conference’s playoff picture as a whole. This week’s results, however, have made winning the division a much more realistic goal for the Patriots — and not just that.
After all, New England now also owns the third seed in the AFC with plenty of potential to move up even further. After all, one of the conference’s top teams was also beaten on Sunday: the Tennessee Titans’ seven-game winning streak came to an end thanks to a 22-13 upset loss to the Houston Texans. With Tennessee now 8-3, the Patriots could move ahead of them in the standings if they beat them in the head-to-head matchup next Sunday.

The Patriots are the Evil Empire of the NFL. If they can beat the Titans next Sunday, they would take an 8-4 record — and a six-game winning streak — into their Dec. 6 Monday Night Football game at Buffalo.




 

Category: Football

Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | November 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Kristin Evans and baby daddy Zac Stacy

As a running back for Vanderbilt University, Zac Stacy ran for more than 3,000 yards and 30 touchdowns. In 2013, he was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams, and ran for nearly 1,000 yards his rookie season, but his NFL career only lasted three seasons. He was traded to the New York Jets and retired from the league in 2017 after suffering a devastating ankle injury. He later attempted a comeback in Canada, and then in 2019 played briefly in the short-lived Alliance of American Football.

Zac Stacy achieved a new level of fame — or rather, infamy — this week when his ex-girlfriend Kristen Evans released home surveillance video of him savagely beating her in front of their infant son:

 

“This was just the last straw I would say. I really truly feel that if it continues that he would kill me,” said Evans.
Evans released the horrifying attack caught on her home surveillance footage on social media. The video allegedly shows Stacy hitting her twice, making her fall to the couch. He then grabs her and throws her across the room into a television, which falls on top of her.
Evans could be heard pleading for him to stop multiple times.
Stacy’s arrest warrant then said he walked back to the couch, grabbed an object, stood over the top of Evans, and threw it at her. He picked her up off the floor and threw her into a baby walker. . . .
Evans met Stacy in January of 2019 while she was working as a Wellness Coordinator for the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football –a team Stacy played for. They began a romantic relationship in August of that year. She said it was very on and off after she had a miscarriage. She added that Stacy became more physically abusive to her after the birth of their son.
“He feels justified in his actions. There’s nothing that anyone could do to justify something like that,” said Evans.
She told FOX 35 that she has filed reports against Stacy in the past. She said she felt she had to go public with this one so that her case wouldn’t get overlooked again.
“The state would’ve gotten to it whenever they got to it and maybe I wouldn’t sleep for a month or two or he could get away with a completely,” said Evans.

After fleeing to Nashville, Stacy returned to Orlando after the video went viral and turned himself into police on Thursday.

Expect feminists to ignore this story, for some reason . . .




 

Category: Violence Against Women
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