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FMJRA 2.0: Girls With Guns

Posted on | June 20, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Girls With Guns

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The really cool thing about today’s SOTD was that Tommy Shaw & the crew did the official video in one take. Never cared for Styx, but this was a great song.
Senators played five games this week, and the hitters didn’t hit, so it didn’t matter that the starting rotation turned in five quality starts; we finished the week 1-4, but we’re only one game behind the Red Sox.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

No light, happy music this week either.

Rule 5 Sunday: Atago-sama’s Wedding
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
Proof Positive

The J6 Smear Machine
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

He Was Yelling About His ‘Rights’
The DaleyGator
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Rubycon
A View From The Beach
EBL

Inside the Biden Bubble
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Far-Right Extremists’ Alert!
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.13.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Max Boot and Allahpundit Are Very Worried About Our Friends in Ukraine
First Street Journal
EBL

‘The NPR Tote Bag Set’: Liberal White Guys and Their Target Audience
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Orange Man Bad!’ Trump Still Living Rent-Free in the Left’s Collective Head
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.15.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.15.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

A MIDWEEK BOOK POST APPEARS!
EBL

Report: CNN Planning to Cut Back on Carbohydrates, IYKWIMAITYD
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.16.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.17.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 17: 

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach & 357 Magnum (10)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

 

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Important Truths About ‘Mass Shootings’

Posted on | June 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Important Truths About ‘Mass Shootings’

Six people shot at graduation party in Anniston
— WBMA-TV, May 27

One teen dead, two others injured
after graduation party shooting
in Thomaston, police say
— WXIA-TV, May 28

Man killed, 7 injured after shooting
at Chesterfield graduation party
— WTVR-TV, June 4

A South Carolina graduation party shooting left
1 dead and 7 others, including minors, wounded
— CNN, June 5

5 teens shot, 2 critical in ‘targeted’
graduation party shooting in West Texas
— My San Antonio, June 5

4 arrested in shooting that left woman, 80,
dead after high school graduation
— NBC News, June 16

Ah, high school graduation — a time to celebrate with random gunfire! While I have not fully investigated each of these shootings, and police have not yet made arrests in some of them, I will wager that none of the gunmen who opened fire at these graduation parties was a Trump voter.

The atrocities that make national headlines tend to be different, statistically speaking, from the vast majority of “mass shooting” incidents, and this difference is actually important. In the aftermath of massacres like Uvalde, the demand for new gun-control laws becomes a media-drive political drumbeat without any platform being provided to those who would point out that (a) the measures proposed would not have prevented the atrocity and (b) the best way to reduce gun violence is to enforce existing gun laws by putting criminals in prison.

We think of “mass shooting” in terms of the deranged psycho on a rampage, but 96% of such incidents aren’t like that at all:

The country’s eyes are trained on high-profile massacres in Texas and Buffalo, but most mass shootings bear little resemblance to those.
Of 267 incidents this year classified as mass shootings by the Gun Violence Archive, nearly all can be tied to gang beefs, neighborhood arguments, robberies or domestic incidents that spiraled out of control.
Indiscriminate slaughter by a lone gunman blasting away at a store, school or some other public place is rare, according to a Washington Times analysis of the archive’s data, accounting for less than 4% of the total.

Ninety-six percent of mass shootings don’t fit the “lone gunman” scenario, and yet you don’t hear about “gang beefs” in this context. Trump adviser Stephen Miller has an idea why this is so:




 

Category: Crime

Metaphor Alert!

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | Comments Off on Metaphor Alert!

So, apparently the idea for this escapade was to showcase how fit and healthy the 79-year-old alleged president is. There has been a lot of talk that Biden is too old to run for re-election in 2024, and so his handlers put him on a bicycle and sent him out to show that the septuagenarian is a fine, vigorous specimen. Great idea, right? WRONG!

Biden’s approval ratings are at a historic low, and the economy? Well, that’s going just about as good as his bike ride.

We’ll talk about this on The Other Podcast tonight.




 

Category: Joe Biden

Crazy People Are Dangerous (and the Problem With ‘Red Flag’ Laws)

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | 2 Comments

You haven’t forgotten Deb Frisch, have you? In October 2018, Frisch — whose harassment of Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein lasted a dozen years — was finally sentenced to four years in a Colorado prison. When last we heard about her, in August 2021, she had been denied parole after ranting insanely at her parole board hearing.

This morning, I noticed I’d gotten some extra traffic to one of my posts about Frisch, and investigation led to Not The Bee:

If you need a reason to oppose
“red flag” gun laws, this writer’s
harrowing 12-year tale of terrifying
stalking and harassment
might just do the trick

That features a Twitter thread by Jeff Goldstein:

Jeff makes some important points here. The way our legal system operates — the built-in prejudices of courts, based on decades of precedents intended to “protect” the rights of the mentally ill — it is very difficult to get a dangerously deranged person locked up. Whenever a mentally ill person commits an atrocity (or gets shot by the cops), you’ll see commentators saying that this shows problems with our nation’s mental health system, when in fact it was liberal judges in the 1970s and ’80s who decided it should be nearly impossible to keep crazy people locked up in lunatic asylums, where they belong. These same judges, however, will probably be willing to sign “red flag” orders based on unproven claims, without due process for those targeted by such orders.




 

Category: Crime, Protein Wisdom

How to Get Shot by the Cops

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | Comments Off on How to Get Shot by the Cops

Lawyer for suspect
in deputy involved shooting
in Indian River County wants
unedited body cam video
— WPBF-TV, June 15

This story is a perfect example of how the media undermines law enforcement by giving voice to bogus criticism, especially in cases like this one in Florida, where an armed felon was shot by sheriff’s deputies investigating a string of crimes in the community. Simply because the suspect is black, many in the media seem to believe, he must be a victim of injustice, and the police must be in the wrong. Therefore, the TV cameras seek out the suspect’s family or a “civil rights” activist or, as in this case, the suspect’s lawyer, to condemn the cops, no matter what the circumstances were that led to the shooting. Watching the video of this incident doesn’t give you the necessary knowledge to understand what happened, or why it happened. Once you do understand it, however, it becomes impossible to deny that the person responsible for this 19-year-old suspect getting shot was — wait for it — the 19-year-old suspect.

Say hello to Jamall Frederick. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office (IRCSO), the events that led to him getting shot were as follows: Deputies were investigating a homicide that happened Thursday in the Gifford community. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, deputies responded to a report of shots fired a few blocks away. Subsequent investigation (i.e., surveillance camera video) gave them a description of a vehicle suspected of involvement in that incident. The same vehicle was also connected to a number of burglaries, including burglaries of vehicles in which firearms were stolen. Thus, the deputies had reason to believe that the occupants of this vehicle were armed and dangerous. So they began monitoring the area in which the shots fired incident had occurred. About 9 p.m. that evening, deputies spotted the suspect vehicle, and that’s when the incident occurred.

 

As I say, just watching the video doesn’t add much to your knowledge of what happened, because it happened very quickly at night. One of the deputies saw the pistol in the back seat next to Frederick and told him not to reach for it. He grabbed it and ran, and they opened fire, and it’s something of a miracle that Frederick survived the shooting.

Civilians may ask, “Why did they shoot? He was running away.” Yes, but he had a gun in his hand. Are cops just supposed to let an armed fugitive run free in the community? And what are the chances that Frederick would have turned around and shot any deputy who pursued him? There’s no rule that requires cops to let bad guys get the first shot.

Frederick is from Fort Pierce, 18 miles away from the scene of the shooting. The deputies also found another gun in the car and arrested 18-year-old Zbryius Jones of Vero Beach. Both guns were stolen, one from South Vero and the other from Fellsmere. Frederick was a convicted felon on probation, and Jones was also charged with violating probation. Sheriff Eric Flowers said: “These guys are countywide criminals. We will not tolerate known felons endangering our community. Our community expects us to prevent crimes and keep them safe.”

There has been much critical attention directed toward rampant crime in Democrat-controlled cities like Los Angeles, where Soros-sponsored District Attorney George Gascon is being blamed for releasing a felon who shot and killed two police officers. You don’t have problems like that in Indian River County, which has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1944, and which went 60% for Trump twice.

The media can (and should) help fight crime by discarding the anti-cop bias that treats all critics of the police as inherently legitimate. It is one thing — and a very important thing — to expose genuine abuse or corruption by the police, but it’s a whole ’nother thing to portray cops as racist villains when they’re just doing their job.




 

Category: Crime, Florida

In The Mailbox: 06.17.22

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The True Cost Of Lithium Ion Batteries
EBL: Sasha Says Goodbye To Tater, also, Compliment Paige Spiranac, Trigger A Leftist
Twitchy: Colbert Show Crew Arrested For Trespass In House Office Building, also, Taylor Lorenz Gets A Babysitter At The Post
Louder With Crowder: SpaceX Gives Whiny Employees The Boot
Vox Popoli: Summer Book Sale, also, Eurofragility
According To Hoyt: Never Apologize, also, The Arrow Is Plugging The Wound
Monster Hunter Nation: ILOH Has Opinions On The J6 Committee, also, Utah Primaries – Time To Go RINO Hunting
Gab News: A Society That Worships Idols Gets What It Deserves

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: When The Lies Come Home, also, Welcome Back To The 1890s
American Greatness: “Very Catholic” Pelosi Refuses To Condemn Recent Outbreak Of Violence Against Pro-Lifers, also, Gov. Youngkin Updates State Budget To Restore School Choice Program
American Power: Energy Inflation Derails Biden’s Green Agenda, also, Our Civilizational Destruction
American Thinker: The Democrat Party Finds A Scapegoat At The Seaport, also, The Democrat Party’s Dirty Hands
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tone Policing Friday 
Babalu Blog: In Communist Cuba, The Executions Began After The Guns Were Confiscated, also, Living In Cuba – A Surreal Chronicle Of Post-Pandemic Times
BattleSwarm: Linkswarm For June 17
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, SpaceX Launches Another 53 Starlink Sats, and Ariane-6 Rocket Delayed Again
Cafe Hayek: The Middle Class Then & Now, also, Another Genius Proposal From Sen. Warren
Da Tech Guy: Another Casualty Of The Biden Economy
Don Surber: Left Suddenly Likes Free Speech – For Itself, also, Economy Crumbles, Trump Rises, & NYT Whines
First Street Journal: The Journolism Of The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gates Of Vienna: Nancy Faeser Celebrates The Grey Wolves, What The Netherlands Needs Are More Culture Enrichers! and The COVID Healer
The Geller Report: Muslims Slaughter 55 In Burkina Faso, Rape Dozens Of Women, also, Corrupt DOJ Blocks GOP Attempts To Get Answers On Hunter Biden Investigation 
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, A White Dwarf’s Solar System – Some Disassembly Required, and Quote Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Lightyear – To Mediocrity, And Beyond!, also, Is Lightyear Suffering From Controversies Over Tim Allen And A Lesbian Kiss?
The Lid: Skilled Trades, Not College Degrees, Are America’s Economic Future
Legal Insurrection: Leftist Jane’s Revenge Announces “Open Season” On Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers, Soros-Backed Democrat Wins Prosecutor’s Race In Maine, and GWU Drops “Colonials” Nickname
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Warriors Beat Celtics 106-90 In Game Six, Steph Curry Named Finals MVP, Vince McMahon Steps Back From WWE CEO & Chairman Roles Amid Allegations, and ESPN Moves To Dismiss Stage Steele’s Lawsuit, Confirming All of Her Allegations
Power Line: Heading Toward the Abyss, Thoughts From The Ammo Line, and Watergate At 50
Shark Tank: Rep. Daniel Webster’s Health Questioned
Shot In The Dark: Watergate, Parody Is Obsolete, and Divorce American Style
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – World Federalism Today
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, “Triggered” Employees Offered Four Months’ Severance To Quit, and DGB – Under New Management
Transterrestrial Musings: How DeSantis Can Save Higher Education, Lightyear, and “Are You F*****g High?”
Victory Girls: Is John Cornyn About To Shoot Himself & The GOP In The Foot? also, The Beatings Will Continue Until You Obey
Volokh Conspiracy: Qualifying Qualified Immunity, Slippery Slope Arguments In History, and Justice Sotomayor Defends Justice Thomas 
Watts Up With That: Reuters Fails Journalism Test Again, also, Obama Installing 2500-Gallon Propane Backup At Martha’s Vineyard Mansion
Weasel Zippers: Record High Diesel Prices Threaten Everything Else, Watch Biden’s Brain Break In Real Time, and Biden’s Sex-Addicted Daughter Had Inappropriate Showers With Dad
The Federalist: Red China Threatens War Over Taiwan In Starkest Terms Ever, Congress Finds Even More Reasons To Disregard The Bill Of Rights, and WH Aims To Shut Down Ammo Sales While Dems Claim To Engage In Good Faith Talks
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, Jasmine In My Mind

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In The Mailbox: 06.16.22

Posted on | June 17, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.16.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Even 2d girls despise the new Ken.

Related: Oppai Are Saving Japan From Woke Culture [Today’s Ray of Hope]
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ohio Arms Teachers & The Left Has Kittens
EBL: Molly Bloom & Bloomsday
Twitchy: Glenn Greenwald Gives An Appreciation Of Jen Rubin’s Live Tweeting Of The J6 Show Trial
Louder With Crowder: Doocy Corners First Black Lesbian Press Secretary On Biden’s Latest Inflation Lie, And…Dang, She’s Bad At Her Job
Vox Popoli: He Was Doing So Well, also, Running On Empty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Server Side Timeout
American Conservative: National Conservatism – A Statement Of Principles
American Greatness: What The J6 Committee Might Have Been, also, Over 2000 Cattle Die From “Heat, Humidity” In Kansas
American Power: Governor Ron DeSantis Celebrates Flag Day, also, GOP Primaries Test Limits Of Trump’s Influence
American Thinker: Who Decided David Hogg Is Newsworthy? also, The GOP Is Preparing To Learn The Wrong Lesson This Year
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Energy Bills News
Babalu Blog: Canada, Your Tourist & Corporate Dollars Fund Human Rights Abuses In Cuba, also, Prolonged Blackouts In Cuba Spark More Anti-Government Graffiti
BattleSwarm: Everyone Hates Soros’ LA DA George Gascon, Including His Own Prosecutors 
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Rock Growths On Mars, and SLS Dress Rehearsal Countdown Set For June 20 With Launch Postponed Again
Cafe Hayek: A Textbook Case Of Government Overreach, also, Refining The Argument
CDR Salamander: SECNAV Promotes An Official Religion
Chicago Boyz: “Red Flag” Laws
Da Tech Guy: I’m Old Enough To Remember When Merrick Garland Was Called A “Moderate”, also, Why Is Mitch McConnell Trying To Scuttle The Midterm Red Wave?
Don Surber: The Uselessness Of A Fox News Poll, also, Biden Discovers Sanctions Don’t Work
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer & The J6 Show Trial
Gates Of Vienna: Arab Culture-Enrichers Abuse Ukrainian Boys In Sweden, Turkey’s Bizarro World, and Joakim Lamotte Throws In The Towel
The Geller Report: DNC Reschedules Kamala Harris Dinner Over Lack of Ticket Sales, also, WHO To Rename Monkeypox Because “It’s Racist”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, An X-Ray Speed Trap, and How Can I Afford…
Hollywood In Toto: Could Kyle Rittenhouse Sue Bill Burr? also, Terror On The Prairie Blazes Trail Outside Hollywood, Inc.
The Lid: How Low Can You Joe? also, “That’s Not Science, That’s Conjecture!”
Legal Insurrection: DIE Proposal for Faculty Fails At U. Wash., One Of America’s Most Rich & Powerful Familes Is Behind The Progressive Gender Agenda, and  Nork Defector Terrified Of Leftist Indoctrination Coming From Public Schools
Nebraska Energy Observer: You Should See This
Outkick: The Athletic‘s New Ownership Lays Down The Law – No Politics, Slimeball MLB Commish Increases Pressure On A’s & Rays To Get New Parks, Threatens Moves, and Jabbed & Boosted NBA Commissioner Misses Second Straight Finals Game Due To Coof Protocols
Power Line: Coup’s Next, “My Dinner With Hunter Biden”, and Rolling Blackouts On The Way
Shark Tank: Rep. Mast’s Everglades Bill Becomes Law, also, DeSantis Says State Guard Will Receive Weapons Training
Shot In The Dark: Dysfunctional, Days Of Future Past – Obama’s Fourth Term Edition, and Compare & Contrast
The Political Hat: The Madness Of Rebalancing Society – Worldwide Racial Equity Chief, Women Choosing Not To Work, & Freedom For A Knife-Wielding Robber
This Ain’t Hell: Michigan AG Suggests A Drag Queen In Every School, also, Bloody Week For Navy Leaders
Victory Girls: Lauren Boebert Targeted By Same Group That Nailed Madison Cawthorn, also, Gascon’s Soft On Crime Policies Led To Deaths Of Two Police Officers
Volokh Conspiracy: And Roberts Was His Name-O, also, “Some Individuals Quoted…Appeared To Be Fabricated”
Watts Up With That: Climate Propaganda Award Winners, also, Just When You Thought Biden Couldn’t Get Any Dumber
Weasel Zippers: Is Susan Rice Biden’s Puppet Master?, Nancy Pelosi Thinks We’re Still At War In Iraq, and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms Admits She’s Defunding Police
The Federalist: J6 Show Trial Ignores Capitol Security Failures, Focuses On VP Pence, Colonial Williamsburg Destroys Its Reason For Existing, and With Nebraska’s Withdrawal, 25 States Have Now Ditched The NSBA For Targeting Parents
Mark Steyn: Resisting The Digital Handcuffs, also, The Contempt Of Our Rulers – A Case Study

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Report: CNN Planning to Cut Back on Carbohydrates, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted on | June 16, 2022 | 1 Comment

Brace yourself for this shocking news:

CNN’s Brian Stelter, who delights in parroting leftist and Democratic Party narratives on his show “Reliable Sources,” will be out of his job soon, according to a new report. . . .
In May, Chris Licht, who has supposedly emphasized less opinion-oriented reporting, became the new head of CNN. Last Sunday, “Reliable Sources” had its worst-rated episode since September 2019, reaching only 580,000 viewers, the smallest audience since September 15, 2019.
In a memo to employees, Licht wrote, “… too many people have lost trust in the news media. I think we can be a beacon in regaining that trust by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics of journalism: fearlessly speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo, questioning group-think, and educating viewers and readers with straightforward facts and insightful commentary, while always being respectful of differing viewpoints.” . . .
In April, the daily version of “Reliable Sources” was dropped by CNN after they pulled the plug on CNN+. . . .
Stelter has displayed his partisanship for years.

That’s putting it rather mildly. Stelter acted like Patient Zero of Trump Derangement Syndrome, begging Michael Avenatti to run for president. Ace of Spades desperately launches his #SaveTheTater campaign:

I’m tryna get some right wing pundits together to start feeding Tater quotes and tips on background.
Like, we can alert Tater when we’re about to say something that is potentially cancellable, so he can be first to try to cancel us. Anything to get him clicks.
We can’t let Tater just fade away. We have to keep this incompetent’s career going despite his utter lack of qualifications or skill at it.
Tater is the straw that stirs the drink of conservative media. What are we, without Tater?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to wake up in an “America” where there isn’t a grossly obese effeminate clown compulsively scanning rightwing Twitter feeds with his fat clumsy canoli-frigging fingers, just so he can issue stupid hot-takes and insipid snapbacks with that retard smile that says “Aren’t I clever” and also “I might have made in my pants again.”
We at least need to get him over on YouTube.

Too little, too late, I fear. We were insufficiently appreciative of Tater and, now that he’s about to get axed, we lament our impending loss. If it is indeed true that he will be fired from CNN — say it ain’t so, Tater! — I suppose he’ll go back to doing what he was doing before, but does anyone remember what that was? Because I had to Google it:

After graduating from college in May 2007, Stelter joined The New York Times as a media reporter in July of that year, aged 22.
In November 2013, he became the new host of CNN’s Reliable Sources and also chief media correspondent.

Wow, hired by the New York Times right out of college, and then grabbed up by CNN six years later. What a rapid ascent of the media hierarchy! It’s almost as if he were the beneficiary of some kind of favoritism in the media’s hiring practices. But how could that be? I have been assured that Our Journalism Overlords are exemplars of equity and fairness.

Could it be that I’ve been misled? Perish the thought!




 

Category: CNN
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