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In The Mailbox: 09.06.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 7, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Racism Problem In The Rings Of Prime
EBL: Peter Zeihan : The Old World Order Is About To Collapse, Apex, and The Country that Democrats Have Built
Twitchy: Kathy Griffin’s “If You Don’t Want A Civil War Vote For Democrats” Pitch Goes Badly, also, TPM’s Josh Marshall Still Cranky About The 2000 Election
Louder With Crowder: Ron DeSantis drops best ad I’ve seen in years, also, Adult male dancer ‘Jenna Tailia’ performs for all ages back to school show (that means children)
Vox Popoli: Dude, Take the Damn L, The Hubris of Morgoth, The Inevitable End of Empire, and The Globalists Have Lost Control

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: This Vagabond Life
American Conservative: Washington Is Running on Empty
American Greatness: Federal Judge Grants Trump’s Request For a Special Master to Review Seized Documents, also, A Cry of Defiance Against the Deep State
American Power: Sea Power Makes Great Powers, Red China’s Economy Won’t Overtake the U.S., Some Now Predict, and How Many Books Actually Sell?
American Thinker: Biden’s New Title IX Proposals Will Codify the Gender Derangement of the Left
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty II
Babalu Blog: Due to lack of resources, only 23 Cuban mills will process sugarcane in the next harvest, ‘Karla Marx,’ Charlie Crist’s running mate for Florida governor, deletes tweet mourning death of Fidel Castro, and Wife of Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer gets 15-minute visit, finds him malnourished, covered in mosquito bites
BattleSwarm: Ukraine: Don’t Assume Russia Will Win, also, When Storage Wars Meets Gun Hoarders
Behind The Black: Today’s blacklisted American, Red China launches two satellites with its Kuaizhou-1A rocket, South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter successfully makes course correction, and The evidence continues to pile up: The government’s strongarm policies against COVID were utter failures
Cafe Hayek: Covid and Climate “Science”, A Review of Robert Kuttner’s ‘Debtor’s Prison’, “Politics As the Art of Confined Compromise”, and If Labor Markets are Red Hot, Collective Bargaining Cannot Even In Theory Help Some Workers Without Harming Others
CDR Salamander: Build More Carriers and Send Some to CENTCOM
Da Tech Guy: Democrats are the vote-buying party, Report from Louisiana: Teacher Shortage, and A Reason For Hope on Labor Day
Don Surber: Special Master spoils FBI party, DC panics because Politico may drop its bias, and Did Tom Cruise slay the Red Chinese dragon?
First Street Journal: A couple of very uncomfortable questions, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: Giorgia Meloni Confronted by LGBTQ Activist, Islam, Schmislam, Jihad in Catalonia, and Turn up the Thermostat, Get Three Years in the Slammer
The Geller Report: DEMOCRAT CHILD ABUSE: Reading, Math Scores PLUNGE, Data Shows, also, VILLAINY: Federal Prosecutors Waiting Until After Midterms to Take Any Action Against Trump: Report
Hogewash: The Usual Suspects, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Hubble and JWST Look at M74, and Rebekah Jones Criminal Trial Date Set
Hollywood In Toto: How House of Darkness Fumbles MeToo Scares, Al Franken’s Pathetic Attempt to Defang Rob Schneider’s ‘SNL’ Critique, and Critic Confessions: Are Stars Fed Up with Press Junkets?
The Lid: Homeowners Learn The Hard Way That ‘Smart’ Thermostats Come With Ugly Strings Attached
Legal Insurrection: Pushback Mounts Against American Bar Association Plan To Ditch Required Standardized Admissions Testing, Victor Davis Hanson Calls DEI Loyalty Oaths in Higher Education ‘McCarthyesque’, 50 Years On, Remembering The Munich Olympics Massacre, and Court Forces Fauci And Jean-Pierre To Answer Questions Under Oath And Produce Documents In Biden-Big Tech Collusion Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Who We Are and How We Got here, also, Home school
Outkick: Jalen Hurts Is Improving – And The NFL Should Stop Underestimating Him, LeBron, Drake Facing Lawsuit Over Hockey Movie ‘Black Ice’, LIV Golf Now Lets Players Wear Shorts During Competition, and Tennis Player Margaret Court Says Her Serena Williams Appreciation Isn’t Reciprocated
Power Line: Walz failed, crime edition, The “Green Revolution” Is Impossible, and The Liberal Arts—RIP
Shark Tank: Michelle Kwan Considers Congressional Run, also, Brian Mast Goes Scorched Earth On Biden Over “Rainbow” Fentanyl
Shot In The Dark: Causation, also, Compare & Contrast
STUMP: Advice on the CDC 2021 Life Expectancy Report
The Political Hat: Sacramento Public Schools: Polyamorous BSDM Drag Queen Kids Are Great (Just Don’t Tell Their Parents)
This Ain’t Hell: Navy can’t seem to do separations right, Window to close for the National Defense Service Medal, Gallimaufry, and Ambassador Nancy Pelosi?
Victory Girls: Unhinged Joe Biden In Milwaukee For Labor Day, also, Hands Off My Thermostat!
Volokh Conspiracy: Malicious Prosecution Claim Against DHS Agents Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: Coal Miners Rescue a Dead EV, Push it to the Mine for a Recharge, also, 21 Million German Households, Industry Suffer Body Blow as Green Energy Scheme Disintegrates
Weasel Zippers: F*ck Joe Biden Chants Break Out Again At College Football Games, California Declares Power Grid Emergency – Says Usage Is At 5-Year High And Grid May Collapse, Woman Who Betrayed MAGA And GOP Wants To Be “Voice Of Trump Voters” On The View, and Biden Energy Sec. On Climate Change: “California Is In The Lead” And Can Show Nation How It Is Done
The Federalist: Planned Parenthood Isn’t On The Way Out, It’s Transitioning To Gender-Bending, How Discriminatory Hiring Is Leading To Full-Blown Leftist Indoctrination At Public Schools, Unreliable Voter Rolls Poison Election Integrity, But One Group Might Have The Antidote, and Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells
Mark Steyn: I’ll Be Around, The Day After Labor, and Going with the Flow

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In The Mailbox: 09.06.22

Posted on | September 6, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

We call them NPCs for a reason.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: “American Unity” – A Speech By Joe Biden
EBL: White Elephant, Dual, and Kari Lake Rocked This Question
Twitchy: What’s Another Word For Triggered? also, Alex Berenson Has A Hot Tip For Taylor Lorenz About Twitter Bans
Louder With Crowder: New Team DeSantis video explains who the real divisive extremists are slow enough for POTUS to understand,  also, Dave Portnoy: Stop defending Biden, he looked like Hitler up there
Vox Popoli: March Into Darkness, Play Stupid Energy Games, He Should Have Listened, and Walk it Back, Walk it Back!
Stoic Observations: American Class & The Jungle

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Covid, the cult of youth, and the Boomers
American Conservative: In Prague, It Begins
American Greatness: Biden Puts the ‘Total’ in Totalitarianism, also, Everybody Hates Joe Manchin
American Power: Moscow’s Struggle to Sustain Its War in Ukraine
American Thinker: Translating Biden’s ‘Soul of a Nation’ Speech, also, ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty I
Babalu Blog: Rosa Maria Paya: The root of all of Cuba’s problems is the communist military dictatorship, Two Cuban doctors die from dengue, and Chile’s proposed socialist constitution overwhelmingly rejected by voters
BattleSwarm: The Ukraine War Map Problem, also, Movie Review: The Beast
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 4C rocket launches military satellite, NASA to roll SLS back to assembly building, delaying launch by weeks at minimum, and SpaceX launches another 51 Starlink satellites and orbital tug
Cafe Hayek: Regulation: “Phone Bill Too High? Blame the FCC”, A Lesson from Today’s NASA, and An Open Letter to the Directors of the American Economic Association
Chicago Boyz: If We’d Known Back Then What We Know Now
Da Tech Guy: No Innuendo Needed, Libs of TikTok Shows How to Fight Back, Under the Fedora: Reality and Free Will, and An eloquent response to Brandon
Don Surber: Fetterman hires murderers, Trash talk won’t save Democrats, and A raid to get 1,693 newspapers?
First Street Journal: Well, imagine that!, Killadelphia, and Is justice a matter of color in Lexington?
Gates Of Vienna: The Nuremberg Sermon, Let’s Play WW3, Fellow Puppets!, and The Winter War
The Geller Report: WATCH! MASSIVE CROWDS: PACKED HOUSE in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Breaks Out into “USA” To Welcome President Trump, , Ivermectin Reduces COVID Death Risk by 92%, Peer-Reviewed Study Finds, and New Study Shows Wearing Disposable Mask Did More Harm Than Good
Hogewash: Artemis I Launch Attempt Scrubbed, Sonification: The Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and The Surfboard Galaxy
Hollywood In Toto: President Biden Proved Gina Carano’s Point, Sam Morril’s Same Time Tomorrow Might Just Unite the Country, and Here’s How James Caan Stole Honeymoon in Vegas
The Lid: The Munich Olympics Massacre – 50 Years Later
Legal Insurrection: VIDEO of Democrats Denying Election Results In 2000, 2004, and 2016, Drake University’s Diversity Training Session ‘Traumatized’ Some Students, Oberlin College, NPR Shocked Catholic Health Systems Follow Catholic Teachings on Artificial Birth Control, and MSNBC Guest On Trump Supporters: “We are at war with these people”
Nebraska Energy Observer: WTF Too Much Change, also, Labor Day Weekend
Outkick: UCLA Draws Embarrassing Week One Crowd, Sets All-Time Low Rose Bowl Attendance Record, Emmitt Smith’s Son Pulls Off Incredible 87-Yard TD In First Carry of the Season, ESPN’s Jack Harlow Guest Picker Selection Was Disaster We Thought It Would Be, ESPN’s Problematic Commentator Mark Jones Continues To Do And Say Weird Things On TV, and HEART BLOCKAGE! LSU Loses 24-23 On Blocked Extra Point With :00 Left In ‘Ugly’ Debut Of Brian Kelly
Power Line: Biden Keeps a Promise—To Screw American Motorists, “Nice Try, Mr. President”, and It Isn’t Hard to Cheat
Shark Tank: Val Demings Claims Inflation Isn’t One Of Her Top Issues
Shot In The Dark: Fake News
STUMP: Labor Day 2022 Gift: Public Plans Projection Tool Update!
This Ain’t Hell: Hate to run into it: but a clever idea, PETA would rather YOU get the ‘bends’, and VA to begin offering abortions in cases of rape/health risks to veteran
Transterrestrial Musings: What Was Old Is New Again, also, In Biden’s America
Victory Girls: Ruth Marcus: Don’t Call Her Strega Nona, MSNBC: Tiffany Cross Says Republicans Are A Threat To Democracy, and J6 Chair Jamie Raskin Claimed Bush Vs Gore 2003 Election Was Stolen
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation is a Trumpian Abuse of Emergency Powers, also, My Skepticism About Fears of a Constitutional Convention
Watts Up With That: WSJ: Why the Renewable Energy Transition will Fail, From Sri Lanka to Salinas, and The Quantity of Metals Required to Manufacture Just One Generation of Renewable Technology to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Weasel Zippers: BLM Leader Accused of Stealing $10 Million From The Org, Watch: African Immigrant Goes Viral For Video Defending ‘MAGA’, Trump: “Raging Lunatic” John Fetterman Is “Hell-Bent On Springing Hardened Criminals Out Of Jail”, and Biden Refuses To Take Questions As He Leaves On Yet Another Weekend Vacation
The Federalist: In Protecting The KGB, Gorbachev Laid The Foundation For Putin’s Gangster-State, RNC, Other Conservative Groups File Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania For Illegally Altering Ballots, and The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families
Mark Steyn: Rajah You Than Me, God Has Entered the Conversation: Dore Schary and The Next Voice You Hear, and Moon Shot

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One Suspect Dead, His Brother Still at Large in Saskatchewan Stabbings

Posted on | September 6, 2022 | 1 Comment

Damien and Myles Sanderson

When I first heard about this atrocity, my reaction was, “Well, they haven’t said anything about a motive, so I guess it’s not right-wing violence.” And it was just a couple of drug-crazed criminals:

Canadian police on Monday found one of the suspects in a mass stabbing spree dead while the other suspect, his brother, was still on the run and may be injured, officials said.
The brothers Damien and Myles Sanderson are suspected of murdering 10 people and wounding 18 in a stabbing rampage that devastated an indigenous community in Saskatchewan on Sunday, in a country unaccustomed to outbreaks of mass violence.
The attacks were among the deadliest in Canada’s modern history. Police said some of the victims appeared to have been targeted, while others were apparently random.
The victims included a mother of two, a 77-year-old widower and a first responder.
In a manhunt involving hundreds of police officers, Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead in a grassy area on the James Smith Cree Nation, possibly killed by his brother, who had been previously wanted for violent crimes.
The brother still at large, Myles Sanderson, 30, “may have sustained injuries” and could be seeking medical attention, said Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at a news conference. . . .
She also warned that police still considered Myles Sanderson a danger to the public, even if he were injured.
“Myles has a lengthy criminal record involving both persons and property crimes. … We consider him armed and dangerous. Do not approach him,” Blackmore said.
Police in the Saskatchewan city of Saskatoon had been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting his parole officer after serving a sentence for assault, robbery, mischief and uttering threats, CBC News reported.
Ivor Wayne Burns of James Smith Cree Nation said three of the victims — his sister Gloria Lydia Burns, a woman and a 14-year-old boy — died at a single location. . . .
“This tragedy that happened here on our land, it’s all because of drugs and alcohol,” said Burns, adding that the involvement of drugs in the killings was discussed at a community meeting on Monday.
“The drug problem we have here is rampant. It’s gone out of control,” Burns said.
His comments echoed those on Sunday of Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, who connected the killings with drugs.

Obviously, Canada needs common-sense knife-control laws.




 

Category: Canada

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Sydney Sweeney

Posted on | September 5, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You may remember Miss Sweeney from Stacy’s post last week in which he noted her great talents en route to reporting on the kerfluffle regarding her mom’s sixtieth birthday. On looking into her career, it looks like Miss Sweeney is a hard-working actress with quite a few movie & TV credits, and has recently branched out into movie production.
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NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1827, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Chump Effect Friday, plus the fabulous 400th installment of the Saturday Gingermageddon (With Extra Ginger!). 

EBL: MAGA Final Solution, Elvis, Johnny & Roseanne Cash, Me Time, The Rings Of Power, Trainwreck: Woodstock 99, “Candle In The Wind/English Rose”, Nikole Flax, Tamar Aphek, Blondie, and The Rehearsal

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: The Orville’s Anne Winter, Fish Pic Friday – Erika Fishes, Tattoo Thursday, Some Wednesday Wetness, Forget It Jake, It’s Baltimore, Mar-a-Lago Panty Raid, Hold On to That, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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The Symbolism of Philadelphia

Posted on | September 4, 2022 | 6 Comments

Joe Biden gave a speech last week in which he gave lip service to things that Democrats don’t actually believe in, e.g., the Constitution and the rule of law, as a pretext to accuse Republicans — all 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump — of being a “threat to our democracy.”

Biden spoke in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, a gesture by which he attempted to identify himself as defending the founding principles of America when, in fact, he and his party are against those principles and are doing everything in their power to destroy America.

Biden does not deceive us. It is Democrats, not Republicans, who spent the summer of 2020 tearing down statues of our nation’s Founding Fathers. It is Democrats, not Republicans, who have denounced the Electoral College as undemocratic, just as it is Democrats, not Republicans, who endanger Supreme Court justices whose rulings they don’t like. Everything good about America, Democrats seek to destroy, and everything bad in America (e.g., drug dealers, cop killers, perverts in public libraries and junkies defecating on city streets) Democrats defend.

The symbolism of choosing Philadelphia as the site of last week’s speech was perhaps more fitting than Biden realized, because Philadelphia is a city that Democrats have absolutely ruined. The per-capita murder rate in Philadelphia is higher than Chicago’s. Now notorious as “Killadelphia,” the city’s population has declined by about 400,000 people since 1960. In 1980, Philadelphia was still the fourth-largest city in the United States, behind only New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles; now it’s sixth, having fallen behind Houston and Phoenix. It’s no secret who is leaving: Whereas the population of Philadelphia was 57% white in 1980, the city is now just 34% white. Quality of life has plummeted.

Perhaps nothing is more demonstrative of Philadelphia’s decline, and the role Democrats have played in that decline, than the tenure of Larry Krasner as the city’s district attorney. In 2017, left-wing billionaire George Soros wrote a $1.45 million check to Krasner’s campaign. That helped Krasner beat six other candidates in the Democratic primary and, in a city where Hillary Clinton got 83% of the vote in 2016, winning the Democratic primary is tantamount to election. Krasner got 75% of the vote in November 2017, and he was reelected in 2021 with 69% of the vote. So you can’t say that the people of Philadelphia are innocent in what Krasner has done; they voted to destroy their city by turning criminals loose:

Krasner ran as the anti-police candidate, and has made it his official policy to turn dangerous criminals loose on the streets of Philadelphia. One of the beneficiaries of Krasner’s policies, Maurice Hill, had an extensive criminal record — drug charges, aggravated assault, perjury, fleeing and eluding, escape and weapons offenses — before he engaged in a shootout [in August 2019] in North Philadelphia that wounded six cops. 

 

Maurice Hill was certainly not the only dangerous criminal who benefited from Krasner’s turn-’em-loose policy. In one of the most infamous cases, Krasner turned loose a career criminal, Hassan Elliott, who then committed a murder and, when a SWAT team came to arrest him, shot to death a veteran policeman in March 2019. Joe Biden says Republican voters are a threat to democracy, but what about Hassan Elliott?

During his speech last week, Joe Biden didn’t say a word about the perpetrators of criminal violence in “Killadelphia,” nor did he mention how Democrats like Larry Krasner have enabled this bloodshed.

According to the Philadelphia Police Department, there have been 364 homicides in the city so far this year, as of Saturday, which is on pace to break the record 562 homicides the city recorded in 2021.

You didn’t hear a word about this in Joe Biden’s speech last week at Independence Hall for the simple reason that Joe Biden doesn’t care. All he cares about is electing more Democrats, and if the result of electing more Democrats is that hundreds of people get murdered because Democrats are turning loose dangerous criminals, so what?

Labor Day weekend shootings:
12 shot, 5 killed as gun violence
continues across Philadelphia

It’s been less than three days since Joe’s speech, and in that short span, five more corpses have been added to the pile in “Killadelphia.” This is a direct consequence of the policies of the Democratic Party, but according to Joe Biden, it is Republicans who are a “clear and present danger.”

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Crime, Joe Biden, Pennsylvania

Memphis Police Charge Suspect With Kidnapping Billionaire Heiress

Posted on | September 4, 2022 | 2 Comments

In 2001, when Cleotha “Pookie” Abston was just a teenager, he already had “a long juvenile record of theft and aggravated assault” before he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a man at gunpoint. Now, he’s been charged in what seems to be an even more serious crime:

A 38-year-old man who spent much of his life in prison has been charged with kidnapping teacher Eliza Fletcher, who has still not been found, Memphis Police announced Sunday morning.
The news of Cleotha “Pookie” Abston’s arrest comes a day after investigators revealed they had located a “vehicle of interest” in the abduction of Fletcher, 34, a married mom of two boys whose grandfather was a wealthy philanthropist.
Fletcher was out jogging near the University of Memphis on Friday morning when assailants in an SUV bundled her into the vehicle and drove off.
Abston, 38, was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence. He is being held at the Shelby County Jail. . . .
Police said they arrested a second person, apparently a relative of Abston, but do not believe he is connected to Fletcher’s abduction. Instead, Mario Abston, 36, was hit with gun and drug charges.
“Eliza Fletcher has not been located at this time. MPD Investigators and officers, along with our local and federal partners, continue searching for Mrs. Fletcher,” Memphis cops said.
Fletcher graduated from the Hutchinson School in Memphis in 2006 and got a teaching degree from Belmont University. She has been married for eight years.
Her family has offered a $50,000 reward for her safe return. Fletcher’s grandfather ran Orgill, the hardware supply giant started by his family that is now worth over $3.2 billion.

Information from the police affidavit is ominous:

When officers stopped Cleotha Abston, he attempted to flee but was taken into custody.
Investigators then interviewed a person who stated that after the abduction at approximately 7:50 a.m., they saw Cleotha Abston at the home of Mario Abston, in the 1700 block of S. Orleans Street, a report said. . . .
The person stated they saw the suspect cleaning the interior of the GMC Terrain with floor cleaner and stated that he was behaving oddly, an affidavit stated.
The same information was later given by Mario Abston, the suspects brother, who stated that he too saw the suspect cleaning the interior of the car with floor cleaner, records show.
Both the witness and the brother saw the suspect washing his clothes in the sink of the house.
Mario Abston said that it appeared that the suspect was acting very strange.
Cleotha Abston declined to provide investigators with the location of the victim, police said.
The other man who was arrested, Mario Abston, 36, was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Fentanyl, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Heroin, and Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony, police said.
Police said he is currently not believed to be connected to Fletcher’s abduction.

So it appears that the suspect’s brother Mario is also a convicted felon, but the really scary thing is the report that “Pookie” was apparently trying to conceal evidence related to the crime — blood?

Obviously, the police believe they have enough evidence to convict Cleotha Abston of kidnapping Fletcher, and if she turns up dead — which now seems the likely outcome — there is little doubt they’ll be able to convict Abston of her murder. It will be a death penalty case.




 

Category: Crime, Tennessee

FMJRA 2.0: Blessed Silence

Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Blessed Silence

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No SOTD today. Just settling for the ambient noise in the apartment today.

This is one of those weeks that makes me think I ought to quit Pete’s continual draft league and just stick with wargames. Senators went 2-4 this week against the Yankees and Red Sox, with both wins being in extra innings, two of the losses being hideous blowouts, and the other two being painfully close losses. We’re halfway through the season, and I am not optimistic about the rest of it – the disparity in talent between my 25-56 Senators and the division-leading teams is not something that’s going to be improved much by next season’s draft, unless we resort to an auction or Pete assigns dollar values to the players and imposes a salary cap. Well, I have the rest of the season to think about it.
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Still can’t believe Brabender pitched a scoreless six innings – and didn’t get the win.

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Grifters Gonna Grift: Lawsuit Accuses BLM Leader of Swindling $10 Million

Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Grifters Gonna Grift: Lawsuit Accuses BLM Leader of Swindling $10 Million

BLM was always a criminal enterprise:

The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.
Shalomyah Bowers was called in the court filing as a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper” who siphoned contributions to the nonprofit activist group to use as a “personal piggy bank,” according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
Bowers’ actions led the foundation into investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorneys general, “blazing a path of irreparable harm to BLM in less than eighteen months,” the suit claims. “While BLM leaders and movement workers were on the street risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his cushy offices devising a scheme of fraud and misrepresentation to break the implied-in-fact contract between donors and BLM.”

(Oh, the courageous rioters, “risking their lives”!)

The suit, filed by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, was light on details of the alleged theft of funds, but delved into the fissures within the network of Black Lives Matter groups, charting changes in leadership and power that left Bowers with tight control of the organization.
Bowers and his group denied all claims of financial misconduct and chastised those suing him for “falling victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system” in taking legal action against him.
“They would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors said in a joint statement.
Bowers is one of three members of the board.

(If a black man swindles $10 million, it’s “white supremacy” to take him to court, because “social justice,” y’all!)

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is an administrative organization that raises funds to distribute to Black Lives Matter Grassroots, the umbrella organization for local chapters of the group.
Bowers was hired by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors in 2020 to help raise and distribute money to groups within the foundation.
Attorney Walter Mosley, representing the plaintiffs in the case, alleges that Bowers instead engaged in self-dealing, giving grants to his own consultant firm and charging exorbitant fees reaching eight figures.
“The lawsuit demands that they return the people’s funds and stop impersonating Black Lives Matter,” Mosley said in a statement.
The lawsuit was announced at a news conference Thursday hosted by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who said that Bowers shut her and other leaders out of the BLM social media accounts in March by changing the passwords. . . .

(Melina Abdullah was born Melina Rachel Reimann. She is half-white. Her grandfather was a Marxist from Germany. Just sayin’ . . .)

Black Lives Matter has come under fiscal scrutiny since 2020, when the group received $90 million in donations amid protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
The organization filed its first public IRS 990 tax form in 2022 and was criticized by some for buying a $6-million Studio City compound.

You have to admire the vagueness of that phrase “criticized by some,” couched in the passive voice. And the “compound” BLM bought in Studio City might more properly be called a mansion, but the Objective Journalists at the L.A. Times are trying to avoid the plain truth, i.e., when these alleged victims of oppression hit that $90 million jackpot, they went on a spending binge that would make a Saudi prince blush.

There were three kinds of people involved in BLM:

1. Cynical hustlers;
2. Dangerous criminals;
and
3. Gullible fools.

The hustlers got rich, the criminals engaged in a spree of vandalism, arson and looting that wreaked billions of dollars in damage, and the gullible fools sent money to BLM to encourage these riots. Excuse me for not sympathizing with the plaintiffs suing Shalomyah Bowers, but where is the evidence that they are better people than he is? Does anyone really think that Melina Abdullah would have been more scrupulous in her financial dealings if she had been in charge of that $90 million?

By the way, the alleged $10 million ripoff by Bowers is just the tip of the massive corrupt iceberg at BLM:

Patrisse Cullors, the former executive director and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, paid a company owned by Damon Turner $969,459 for “live production, design and media,” according to the group’s latest filings with the IRS. Turner’s for-profit company, which sells $145 sweatshirts on its website and solicits donations for “the movement,” received the second-highest payout the group made in fiscal year 2020, which covers July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
A rapper and artist, Turner is the father of Cullors’ young son, and runs a Los Angeles-based entertainment and clothing company called Trap Heals LLC. Turner has been on the receiving end of Cullors’ largesse in the past. In 2019, his company took in $63,500 from Reform LA Jails, a state political action committee controlled by Cullors, to work for criminal justice reform. . . .
The organization also doled out $840,993 to Cullors Protection LLC, a company owned by Patrisse Cullors’ eldest brother, Paul, and set up in July 2020, according to California state records. The cash was doled out for “professional security services,” according to the filings. The Post was unable to establish how much security experience, if any, Paul had before setting up his company. Paul is listed as head of security for Cullors’ personal property and BLMGNF’s $6 million LA headquarters, according to reports.

So, between her baby daddy and her brother, Cullors handed out at least $1.8 million to her family members, and who knows what other corrupt dealings would be unearthed by a thorough investigation of BLM’s finances? But the IRS and the Justice Department are run by Democrats, who certainly are not going to “utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy” to hold these grifters accountable.

The whole thing was a scam from the very beginning.

UPDATE: Oh, I missed this delicious irony:

The lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Dr. Melina Abdullah, accused Joe Biden of capitalizing of the movement’s efforts to defund law enforcement.
Abdullah said Biden “capitalized on our efforts to defund the police, and then tried to condemn the words at the same time,” in an Instagram video from [November 2020]. . . .
“We want to be very clear that as we happily usher out the Trump regime, we will not accept liberal white supremacy in the White House in the form of Joe Biden,” Abdullah said.

Yeah, good luck with your lawsuit, ma’am.




 

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