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.
Biden has spent his political career advocating a lock-them-up approach that feeds mass incarceration and overpolicing. @BernieSanders has been willing to get to the root of the issue…providing for people’s needs reduces crime. #ReimaginePublicSafety #NotMeUs https://t.co/fazql8NZ6k
— Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel) March 7, 2020
@DocMellyMel says that Biden can appoint Garcetti to a “party planning committee,” but if he gives him a place in the admin, “The full force of the largest social justice movement in global history will descend on your ass, too.“ pic.twitter.com/hGsrynXI5z
— Samuel Braslow (@SamBraslow) December 7, 2020
In The Mailbox: 09.02.22
Posted on | September 3, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.02.22
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Probably going to take Monday off, as one does on Federal holidays. We’ll see.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Feminist Hollywood & Unlikable Female Characters
EBL: Ahoy, Allahpundit! Fascist Joe Biden, also, The Rings of Power
Twitchy: “You Should Be Embarrassed”, Yale TDS Victim Sues To Get Job Back, Loses, and Best Of Memes From Last Night
Louder With Crowder: ‘He pretended to be a man for 30 years’, ‘I Am Cornholio’, and Kari Lake Wrecks Reporter Who Claims She’s “Dividing The Country”
Vox Popoli: Five-Month Peak, Thank You For Your Service, and It’s a Mystery
According To Hoyt: Victory!, Radio Free Colorado (In Exile), and The Problems of Bureaucracy
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E8: Beta Readers and Writer Groups, also, Word Counts
Gab News: Gab Community Update For September [Has interesting traffic numbers.]
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: It’s all fake and gay, all of it
American Conservative: Biden, Forerunner Of Soft Totalitarianism, also, German Foreign Minister: ‘Let My People Freeze’
American Greatness: Biden Walks Back Attack on MAGA Republicans, also, Senator Chuck Grassley Warns DOJ Against Interfering with FBI Whistleblowers
American Power: Allahpundit Out at ‘Hot Air’
American Thinker: America: In the Midst of a Communist Color Revolution, Biden’s Semi-Fascist America, and Ten Ways to Change a Liberal’s Mind
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Chump Effect Friday
Babalu Blog: An absolutely perfect Fidel Castro analogy to Biden’s Orwellian hate-filled prime-time speech, Cuban dictatorship’s refusal to relinquish power will lead to its violent downfall, and ‘Assassination attempt’ on rabid Argentinian supporter of Cuban dictatorship fails due to jammed weapon
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for September 2
Behind The Black: NASA is paying Boeing twice as much as SpaceX for its manned flights, SLS countdown resumes, and Pushback: Maine parent wins lawsuit against school board for attempting to ban him
Cafe Hayek: Tech Central Station: “Dobbs’s Disciples (Why America is Growing Richer, Not Poorer, From Free Trade)”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Imperial Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945…Plus 77 Years
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Speech: It’s not Persuasion, it’s Justification
Don Surber: Libs boycott CNN. Ratings may rise, also, Mr. Ed is smarter than Colbert
First Street Journal: Killington, also, (Allegedly) murdering a 97-year-old man because you are frustrated is the epitome of stupidity
Gates Of Vienna: Greenhouse Gas Pollution by Wind Turbines, Rent-a-Sheeple for a Phone, The Burning of the Bills, and Electric Shock
The Geller Report: Despotic Joe Biden Rages, also, Experts blame green energy policies for Europe’s full-scale energy crisis: ‘A warning to the US’
Hogewash: This Guy Called Me a Half-Fascist, The First-Ever Direct Image of an Exoplanet, How Did the Greens Heat Their Houses Before Wood Stoves?, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: My Son Hunter Shows Flashes of What Hollywood Missed, In the Company of Men Still Shocks, but That’s Not the Whole Story, and Glorious Gets Lost at the Worst Possible Time
The Lid: 5 Reasons Joe’s Psycho Rant Was GOOD News For A November Red Wave
Legal Insurrection: Why is the Gibson Family Still Waiting to be Paid by Oberlin?, Study Finds Only 9% of Law Professors Identify as Conservative, The ‘Antiracist’ Movement Has Roots in Soviet Communism, and Biden Walks Back “MAGA Republicans Are a Threat” Claim, Beclowning Sycophantic Media And Never-Trumpers
Nebraska Energy Observer: Truth to Power
Outkick: Pittsburgh Coach Rips ESPN On Live TV After Beating West Virginia, Hooters Under Fire For Sponsoring Kids Soccer Team, Tennessee Football Looks Hypocritical After Offensive Lineman Delivers Oscar-Worthy Flop, and Aaron Rodgers Offers Wise Advice On How To Heal America
Power Line: Triumph of the shill, The Great Dictator: The Common Man’s View, and Biden’s Repulsive Speech
Protein Wisdom: When Turnips Attack
Shark Tank: Smith vs. Plasencia – HD37 Starts To Heat Up
Shot In The Dark: Semi, also, Hamilton
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Dump Nixon?
This Ain’t Hell: Army JAGOff claims trying to give stuff to the Rooskies, Valor Friday, and Darkest Before the Dawn
Transterrestrial Musings: Frank Drake
Victory Girls: Biden Speech Goes For Full Dystopian Optics, also, Trump Floats Pardoning J6 Rioters; Left Explodes
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Pleading Needs More Hemingway, Less Faulkner”
Watts Up With That: CNBC: Amazon Rooftop Fires Prompted Solar Panel Shutdown, also, California to Cover Canals With Toxic Solar Panels
Weasel Zippers: WH Implies Pro-Life Americans Are “Semi-Fascists” According To Biden Administration, Education Sec. Cardona Thanks Same Union Bosses Who Kept Schools Closed, Forced Masks On 3-Year-Olds, and European Union: Civil Unrest And Riots This Winter Over Oil And Food Prices
The Federalist: Michiganders Blast Secretary Of State Who Claims Her Hands Are Clean In 2020 Election-Funding Scheme, Biden’s Declaration Of War On Half The Country Is A Cynical Election Ploy, As America Self-Destructs With Green Energy, China Preps For War With Coal, and Let’s Talk About Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Looming Gas Pains
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday September 2nd, also, Dropping the Pretense
‘A Coven of Sexual Predators’
Posted on | September 2, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘A Coven of Sexual Predators’

Well, at least they weren’t Catholic priests:
Multiple cheerleading coaches in South Carolina — including a coach who recently killed himself — sexually abused at least six boys and girls and provided them with drugs and alcohol, a federal lawsuit alleges.
A “coven of sexual predators” surrounded Rockstar Cheer of Greenville for more than a decade, according to one of the lawyers for the alleged victims.
Attorney Bakari Sellers contends that what happened is a result of the same kind of institutional failure seen in the case of Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor who is serving a minimum of 40 years in prison after admitting that he molested some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by four girls and two boys who said they were abused by Scott Foster and others affiliated with Rockstar gyms. It suggests there could be up to 100 more survivors of the abuse.
“Scott Foster and his allies did their best to intimidate and isolate their targets, making these young people feel alone and somehow responsible. Well, they’re not alone anymore,” attorney Jessica Fickling said in a statement announcing the suit.
Foster, 49, was found dead in his car at a state park on Aug. 22. He shot himself in the head, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office ruled.
“He knew this was going to be a moment when the light was going to be shined on what I think will turn out to be a coven of sexual predators surrounding Rockstar,” said attorney James Bannister.
A number of people either knew Foster was abusing his cheer students and ignored it or did not have rules and procedures in place to stop the abuse, the lawsuit says.
Foster and other coaches not named in the lawsuit had sex with cheer students, sent and asked for explicit photos over social media, gave them alcohol and marijuana at their homes and in hotel rooms at cheer competitions and warned them to not tell anyone about it, according to the lawsuit.
“We have video of Scott Foster on Snapchat with beer bongs drinking with his underage cheerleaders,” Sellers said at a news conference this week.
The suit also names Varsity Brands, which runs cheerleading competitions; the U.S. All Star Federation, which is an organizing and governing body for competitive cheerleading across the country; Bain Capital, which bought Varsity in 2018, and others.
State and federal police are investigating Foster’s Rockstar Cheer and other cheerleading outlets, seizing computers, cellphones and other evidence, Bannister said.
Jeffrey Epstein could not be reached for comment.
Sarah Palin’s Setback Can Be Not A Bug, But A Feature
Posted on | September 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Sarah Palin’s Setback Can Be Not A Bug, But A Feature
by Smitty

There’s been little for me to add to the blog the last couple of years, but Ranked Choice Voting is the Devil’s ballot. I hope that Sarah Palin both:
- recovers in November, and
- we nip this evil in the bud.
“The Devil’s ballot” sounds pejorative. It is meant in the diabolical sense of something that seems a positive thing, but ends up proving a Faustian bargain. Read more
Joe Biden’s Blood-Red War Speech
Posted on | September 2, 2022 | 1 Comment

Everybody noticed the optics of the speech Thursday night in Philadelphia: The “blood red” lighting, the Marines standing at attention:
It didn’t take long after Biden finished his rancid, combative remarks in Philadelphia for the reviews of the latest divisive screed from “Mr. Unity” to come in, and they predictably were not favorable from those among the 70 million Americans he declared were hatefully working to bring about the end of democracy . . .
Meanwhile, even CNN talent was unnerved by the display. Chief National Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny took issue with the staging of the Marines behind Biden for such a political speech, calling it a “break with White House traditions.”
The networks — CBS, ABC, NBC — didn’t carry live Biden’s prime time speech criticizing Republican “extremism”, CNN and MSNBC did. It was delivered with alarm red lighting and two US Marines standing behind him. https://t.co/ucnU0WN9q6
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 2, 2022
On Fox, Bret Baier, an even-handed journalist, points out the ominous backdrop to Biden’s vile political speech. Dark red lighting with two poor Marines standing at attention behind him. Baier says it is “essentially a convention speech… designed to divide the Republican party”
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 2, 2022
The lighting for Joe Biden’s speech tonight is so bad. pic.twitter.com/CK4LEAbY53
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 2, 2022
As many observers remarked, Biden essentially declared war on the 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020, declaring them a “clear and present danger” and a “threat to the country.” Thirteen times he used “MAGA” to define these enemies:
Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.
Now, I want to be very clear . . . very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. . . .
But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country. . . .
And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. . . .
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. . . .
That’s why respected conservatives, like Federal Circuit Court Judge Michael Luttig, has called Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans, quote, a “clear and present danger” to our democracy. . . .
There are far more Americans — far more Americans from every — from every background and belief who reject the extreme MAGA ideology than those that accept it. . . .
MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies. . . .
We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to — to destroying American democracy. . . .
Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated. And that’s where MAGA Republicans are today. . . .
MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies –- lies told for profit and power.
“Kulaks! Wreckers! Saboteurs! Trotskyists!” It’s not an exaggeration to compare Biden’s rhetoric demonizing opponents to the way totalitarians like Stalin demonized their enemies, and this was clearly more than an attempt to excite his party’s “base” for the November midterms.
Bonchie at Red State gets very close to it: “It sure feels like Biden wants to provoke some kind of violent response.” William Jacobson sees the same thing: “Understand that Joe Biden is trying to provoke conflict, he wants it, his handlers want it. They launched this campaign about a month ago. It’s calculated.” Biden’s motive can best be understood by reference to Sun Tzu in The Art of War: “When the enemy is close at hand and remains quiet, he is relying on the natural strength of his position. When he keeps aloof and tries to provoke a battle, he is anxious for the other side to advance.” (Emphasis added.) Biden’s insulting language was part of an effort (along with the raid on Mar-a-Lago) to provoke “extremists,” to cause some right-winger to engage in a violent act that then can be used to say, “See? We told you they were dangerous!”
We are now less than 10 weeks away from Election Day, and what Biden wants is for some fringe kook to go off on a rampage that will serve to dramatize the “clear and present danger” theme he rolled out.
In The Mailbox: 09.01.22
Posted on | September 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.01.22
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in August!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: 50 Years Ago – Bobby Fischer Won The World Chess Championship
Director Blue: Introducing The Kids’ FBI Agent Kit!
EBL: Joe Biden – Super Pimp, also, Fetterman Fears Debating Oz
Twitchy: The Gist Of President Biden’s “Soul Of The Nation” Speech, also, Blue-Check White-Knights NBC Reporter Who Called Jackson Mississippi’s Water Crisis “Environmental Racism”
Louder With Crowder: Woke energy company locks customers out of setting their ‘smart’ thermostats and too bad if you don’t like it
Vox Popoli: “So Staggeringly Bad”, Mailvox: Dyscivilizationation, and Destroying Democracy to Save It
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Putin’s Last Laugh, also, Is the World Weary of War in Ukraine?
American Greatness: FBI Agents have Allegedly Lost Confidence in Director Christopher Wray, also, Joe Biden’s Antifa Politics
American Power: Biden Will Summon His Supporters to Wage a War For the ‘Soul of the Nation’ Against Republicans Who Are ‘Semi-Fascists’ and a ‘Threat to Democracy’
American Thinker: We Have Been Thinking about This All Wrong
Babalu Blog: Meet Charlie Crist’s running mate Karla Mats, the union boss with a soft spot for Fidel Castro, Not all attack dogs in Cuba run on four legs, and Havana headquarters of the Ladies in White ‘gifted’ with Afro-Cuban witchcraft hex bomb
BattleSwarm: Peter Zeihan on The Kherson Counteroffensive
Behind The Black: NASA awards SpaceX new $1.4 billion contract to launch its astronauts, On Mars you can find glaciers everywhere in the mid-latitudes, and Today’s blacklisted American: Google scholarship sets racist quotas favoring minorities
Cafe Hayek: Wall Street Journal: Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death, also, Maybe Covid Loves the Blue-State Scene
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: Speaking of Surveys
Da Tech Guy: Men’s Retreat and September Indulgence Calendar, also, Democrats used the FBI as an attack dog to censor Americans on social media during the 2020 election
Don Surber: Why people 16-40 don’t follow the media, also, Sanctuary cities — for criminals
First Street Journal: European socialism has saddled Europeans with skyrocketing electricity bills, also, Jim Kenney: The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here!
Gates Of Vienna: Throwing Robert Habeck Under the Bus
The Geller Report: Fear of Trump kept Iran in compliance of nuclear deal, says former Israeli security chief
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Time and Grammar, Statistics v. Natural Selection, and Meanwhile, in Lower Middle Earth
Hollywood In Toto: Purple Hearts Heals While Biden Stirs Up Hate, Division, Why Rob Schneider Went Viral for ‘SNL’ Slam, and Alec Baldwin Calls Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist ‘Unfortunate’
The Lid: Biden Tried To Talk Crime This Week — And Failed, also, Economist With Long Record Of Accurate Predictions Says A Whopper Of A Recession Coming In 2023 And 2024
Legal Insurrection: Biden Admin Colluded With Social Media Platforms to Censor and Suppress Content, Chinese Communist Party Loyalists Are Stifling Dissent on College Campuses in America, and Herschel Walker Leads Raphael Warnock in Georgia Senate Race In Two New Polls
Nebraska Energy Observer: In other news
Outkick: Police Release Photo Of Oakland A’s Fans Who Engaged In Ballpark Sex Act, Junior Hockey Player Eli Palfreyman Dies At Tournament, Shannon Sharpe Calls Aaron Rodgers a ‘Prick’ For Not Getting Vaccinated, and Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk Refuses To Shake Hands With Belarusian Victoria Azarenka At US Open
Power Line: Joe Biden, Soul Doctor, For Your Video Viewing Pleasure, and Peltola prevails
Protein Wisdom: Alex’s War
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Calls Woke Culture “The Epitome Of Insanity”
Shot In The Dark: “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarian, Part III, “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarian, Part II, and Great Moments In Feminism
STUMP: U.S. life expectancy fell almost 1 year (again) in 2021 – what does that mean?
The Political Hat: Transgenderism is Magic
This Ain’t Hell: Biden lies about AR-15s. Again, This is how we judge their sincerity, and Leftist undercover operations are as bad as their memes
Victory Girls: “Dissent is Fascism” — Latest Democrat Mantra
Volokh Conspiracy: Not Everything Bad is “Anti-Democratic” – and that which is Democratic isn’t Always Good
Watts Up With That: Oops: Alaskan Electric Buses Run Out of Power in Winter
Weasel Zippers: Palin Loses Special Election In Alaska, US Air Force: Stop Using Gendered Language, It Increases Your Lethality, Biden Press Sec: “MAGA Agenda” Is “One Of The Most Extreme Agendas That We Have Seen”, and Video Shows Angry Feminist Get The Sh*t Smacked Out Of Her By Cop Who Isn’t Having Any Of Her Sh*t
The Federalist: McConnell Sounds Like He Wants To Abandon A Ship Rick Scott Wants To Captain, Bombshell Emails Show The Biden Administration Colluded With Big Tech To Censor Covid ‘Misinformation’Amid A Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis, California Gives Its Last Nuclear Power Plant A Five-Year Extension, How Senator Biden Helped Create The Student Debt Crisis President Biden Is Pretending To Fix, and Pope Francis Ushers In Radical Environmentalism Under The Guise Of ‘Catholic Teaching’
Mark Steyn: Crimes That Shame a Nation, also, Vindicated Conspiracy Theorists
In The Mailbox: 08.31.22
Posted on | August 31, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.31.22
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1826
EBL: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP, also, Has Christopher Wray Lost Control Of The FBI?
Twitchy: Wide Shot Of Biden’s Pa. Crowd Explains Why WH Didn’t Want Wide Shots Of The Crowd, Politifact Rates WH Spin On GOP PPP Loans True, and Wiener Pulls Out
Louder With Crowder: Californians told not to charge their electric vehicles days after state announced a ban on gas-powered cars, also, ‘We’ve been voting Dem for 59 years’: Charles Barkley goes off on Democrats failing the black community
Vox Popoli: The Informing Principle, TikTok On the Clock, The Big Ticket, and Progress
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can You Heat Europe With Von Der Leyen’s Hot Air?
American Greatness: House Republicans Making Plans to Impeach Biden, also, New York City Struggles to Find Housing for over 6,000 Illegals Bused in from Texas
American Power: Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores
American Thinker: Reiner, Klobuchar and the Big Lie of January 6
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Long Term Memory News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans clash with police violently preventing them from boarding rafts to escape the island, Political prisoners from Cuba’s July 11 protests punished for rejecting communist reeducation, and Reports from Cuba: Many Cubans with dengue fever hide at home to avoid bad time at a hospital
BattleSwarm: Mikhail Gorbachev, RIP
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 46 Starlink satellites into orbit, Ursa Major makes rocket engine deal with Air Force, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: And Again, Then A Miracle Occurs, also, Internalized Costs Are Not Evidence of Market Failure
CDR Salamander: A Stain Unfaded by Time: a Year After the Fall of Kabul
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora: Missing Those Pillows, Blackout Futures, Hot Air Countdown, Formerly Common Knowledge and Betting vs Cutting
Don Surber: WaPo praises USSR’s Biden, Barr defends raid on Mar-a-Lago. Lefties still want his hide, and Judge Nap makes another Trump indictment prediction
First Street Journal: Now the Biden Administration wants people to take a completely untested-in-humans vaccine!
Gates Of Vienna: Affirmative-Action Jihad in Lugano, Cultural Appropriators Must Be Cancelled!, Imam on the Run, and Enough of the Nuisance!
The Geller Report: DeSantis calls for IRS audits on lawmakers who voted for Inflation Act
Hogewash: No, Joe, They Won’t Need F-15s, I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and Tonight’s Sky: September, 2022
Hollywood In Toto: Schwarzenegger’s Running Man Delivered More than ’80s-Era Cheese, also, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul Delivers Toothless Megachurch Satire
The Lid: Biden Lies About AR-15s, Claims Bullets Travel 5x Times Faster Than Any Other Round
Legal Insurrection: Fetterman Uses His May Stroke to Justify Not Debating, Biden Chooses Lois Lerner Associate to Oversee Massive Expansion of the IRS, and VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin Slams California Law Banning New Gas-Powered Cars
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: No Apologies
Outkick: Myles Garrett Responds To Baker Mayfield Vowing To F*** Up The Browns, Tennis Influencer Rachel Stuhlmann Takes Over At U.S. Open, Tennis Star Sara Bejlek, 16, Addresses Her Father & Coach Grabbing Her Butt At U.S. Open, and College Football Playoff Could Expand To 12 Teams By Friday
Power Line: The West’s Energy Disaster Worsens, Semi-moronic, and A Footnote on Reagan & Gorbachev
Shark Tank: Progressive Karen Green To Face Combat Veteran Cory Mills In November
Shot In The Dark: “Semi-Fascists” Vs. Not-Semi-At-All Authoritarians, Part 1, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Urban Progressive Privilege: Defunding For Ye, But Not For Me
The Political Hat: Synthetic Embryos Mean One Thing: Mass Produced Genetically Engineered Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Navy looking for a few good … thumbs, WP Opinion: Student Loan Forgiveness = Stolen Valor, Mikhail Gorbachev passes away at 91, and Hot!! USS Texas is afloat and sailing to Galveston NOW!! YOU CAN WATCH!
Transterrestrial Musings: Mikhail Gorbachev
Victory Girls: Problems And Questions About That Classified Documents Photo, also, Fetterman Admits He Can’t Handle A Debate
Volokh Conspiracy: President Biden’s Apparently Incorrect Claim That AR-15 Bullets Travel 5 Times Faster Than Others
Watts Up With That: Arctic Ice at Decade-High Level: Can Doomsayers Explain?
Weasel Zippers: California Tells Residents Not To Charge Electric Vehicles Because Of Blackouts A Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale Of Gas Cars, Senior Moment: Biden Totally Screws Up Who Is Running For What In Pennsylvania, Joe Rogan Says Jen Psaki Was A Propagandist While Comparing McEnany To Michael Jordan, and WH Says Biden’s Economy Is In “Transition”
The Federalist: The Real Hero Of The Soviet Fall Wasn’t Gorbachev, Democrat Candidates In Key Battleground States Are Ducking Debates With Their GOP Opponents, It’s Too Late For Corrupt Media To Decide Political Violence Is Bad, and Wall Street Bigwigs Are Left-Wing Activists Using Your Money To Push Their Politics
Mark Steyn: Into The Sunset, also, When Nothing Works
In The Mailbox: 08.30.22
Posted on | August 30, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.30.22
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Silicon Valley delenda est.
Another Hopperesque piece from u/itskaiwan
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Freezing In The Dark
EBL: FBI Agent Timothy Thibault Out, Nikole Flax to lead IRS , and Big Win For Gibson’s Bakery
Twitchy: DNC Advisor Tells MSNBC GOP Should Be Treated Like Domestic Terrorist Cell
Louder With Crowder: Business community says if progressive city won’t do anything about crime, they’ll stop paying taxes, also, Chris Rock rejects offer to host Oscars again with joke
Vox Popoli: Quantum Edit List, Qui Tam vs Cui Bono, Post-EU Europe, and The Last of the Summer Offensive
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Trivium classical learning system
American Conservative: Neronian Ruling Class Fiddles While West Burns
American Greatness: One Giant Problem with the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid, Republican Senators Demand Facebook Hand Over FBI Communications FBI About Hunter Biden Laptop Story, and What Is to Be Done?
American Power: The Unmaking of American History by the Woke Mob, also, Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles
American Thinker: Unelected Bureaucrats Unilaterally Impose the Green New Deal, also, Expect More Democrat Hail Marys
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Relative Happiness News
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security raids home of adolescent girl beaten by police, Cuban hospitals overwhelmed by dengue epidemic and power blackouts, and As the Cuban dictatorship teeters on the verge of collapse, Biden cuts funding to Radio Martí and VOA
BattleSwarm: Kherson Counteroffensive Finally Begins, also, Kherson Counteroffensive: Day Two
Behind The Black: Astra gets contract to provide engines to OneWeb satellites, The Ukrainian War: After Six Months, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Nor Does the Free Market Read Shakespeare
CDR Salamander: Nice Ammo Dump You Have There, Shame if–
Chicago Boyz: Who Knows?
Da Tech Guy: Report from Louisiana: On this Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Opportunities for the GOP in MA and Car Dealers in the Northeast States, and A voyage into history
Don Surber: WSJ takes on the FBI, NYT gleefully reports WaPo woes, and NBC is about to chuck Todd
First Street Journal: If the gun laws are the problem, why aren’t the homicide rates for Philly and the rest of the Commonwealth fairly similar?, also, The hypocrisy of elected Democrats
Gates Of Vienna: Vehicular Jihad in Brussels, Mass Immigration? Austria Says “Forget It!”, Beware of Criminal Migrants!, and The Winters of Our Discontent
The Geller Report: Elon Musk: We Need Oil and Gas “Because Otherwise Civilization Will Crumble”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Aiming DART
Hollywood In Toto: Rob Schneider on Saturday Night Live – ‘It’s Over’, Entourage Creator Flees Crime-Infested L.A., and Why Can’t Joe Rogan Make Up His Mind?
The Lid: Thirteen States Set To Tax Amount of Canceled Student Loan Debt
Legal Insurrection: Jean-Pierre Tells Fox’s Doocy No One Just Walks Across the Border, Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supremes Refuse To Hear Oberlin College Appeal, and ‘Severely Immunocompromised’: Media Carefully Words Report of Person Dying With Monkeypox in Texas
Michelle Malkin: Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
Nebraska Energy Observer: Here’s a fun fact to start your Monday, also, It’s a concert
Outkick: Parents Of Punter Matt Araiza Say ‘War Waged On Our Son’, ‘Tried And Convicted In The Media’, ‘F*** Scott Frost’: Enraged Nebraska Fans Rip The State Of The Program, Jon Gruden Gives Emotional Response To Raiders Firing And The Aftermath, and Keith Olbermann Thinks He Lives Rent-Free In Aaron Rodgers’ Head
Power Line: Ohio Supremes to Oberlin College: Pay Up, also, Timothy Thibault exits FBI
Shark Tank: First Responder Groups Endorse AG Ashley Moody In Droves
Shot In The Dark: Somewhere In Hollywood Tomorrow Morning, Buried, and Karen’s House
STUMP: Student loan reduction: short-term and long-term effects
The Political Hat: The War On Gas Automobiles Is Upon Us
This Ain’t Hell: Armed ANTIFA personnel guard ‘kid friendly’ drag show, Iranians try feeling up Navy drone, Hunter Biden Laptop Denier to be appointed to Intelligence Advisory Board, and Iran Deal II Disaster
Transterrestrial Musings: Hangar Queen, also, The Kherson Counteroffensive
Victory Girls: Meat Eating Man Owns Screaming Vegans
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects Suit by Volunteer Yale Psych Professor Fired for Public Diagnosis of Trump and Alan Dershowitz
Watts Up With That: Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum
Weasel Zippers: Pennsylvania Dem Senate Candidate John Fetterman: “I Am Horrified” By Voter ID Requirements, California Now A Sanctuary State For Trans Kids, WH Denies Unvaccinated Illegal Immigrants Are Walking Into Our Country, and Florida GOP Office Vandalized After Biden Refers To Republicans As Fascists
The Federalist: Google Nukes Truth Social From App Store, Yes, Mitch McConnell Would Rather Lose The Senate Than His Leadership Status, If Young People Are Mature Enough For Trans Surgeries, They’re Mature Enough To Pay Back Their Student Loans, and Who Are You Calling A Fascist, Mr. President?
Mark Steyn: Candle in the Wind, Performance Art with No Performers, and The Bill Comes Due

