Who Is This ‘David Hookstead’ Person, and Why Does He Hate Success?

Posted on | September 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Who Is This ‘David Hookstead’ Person, and Why Does He Hate Success?

This afternoon, the University of Alabama begins its football season against Miami in Atlanta at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, and Friday night it just happened that I saw a Daily Caller headline:

AL.com Releases Chilling Alabama Hype Video

So I clicked and watched the video:

Awesome video, but I also read this in the Daily Caller article:

I’m not an Alabama fan at all, but I’ll be the first to admit that the hype video above might be the best one I’ve seen during week one.

WHAT? How can you not be an Alabama fan, unless you’re from Auburn? And I immediately wondered, “What scumbag wrote this?”

David Hookstead
Sports And Entertainment Editor
Freedom lover, king of Wisconsin Badgers athletics, college football expert, diagnosed as a Detroit Lions fan at birth and cold beer enthusiast.

Oh, a Wisconsin fan. Remember the 2015 season opener, boy?

ARLINGTON, Texas — Derrick Henry rushed for 147 yards with three touchdowns and No. 3 Alabama ran away with a 35-17 victory over No. 20 Wisconsin in the season opener for both teams Saturday night.
Jake Coker got the starting nod at quarterback for the Crimson Tide, and was 15 of 21 passing for 213 yards and a touchdown while playing until late in the third quarter.

That was a great season, although it included one of the most painful experiences of my life, when we lost to Ole Miss. We had the whole family watching, and it nearly killed me to watch ‘Bama lose that one. Of course, the Crimson Tide bounced back from that defeat, went on to win the SEC Championship, and eventually won the National Championship by defeating Clemson 45-40 in a thriller, where Kenyan Drake returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown and ‘Bama got an onside kick.

That was our fourth National Championship in seven years and, depending on who’s counting, the Crimson Tide has won somewhere between 13 and 18 national championships over its football history.

How can you not be an Alabama fan, unless you hate success?

Ignorant people (among whom David Hookstead must be categorized) may wonder why Alabama (and the South in general) is so crazy about college football, and the answer is, history. We need not go into a lengthy recap of the causes of “The Late Unpleasantness,” as polite 19th-century Southerners sometimes called what was otherwise called The War (there was no other war worth speaking of, in their memory), but the result was defeat — a shameful and humiliating defeat that wounded the pride of a martial people. And the aftermath of that defeat was two generations growing up amid near-universal poverty. It took more than 100 years after The War for the South to recover from the economic devastation wrought by invasion and conquest. America’s history books have generally ignored the vast economic gap between North and South during the decades after The War, as if the dire poverty of the rural South were a phenomenon requiring no explanation, or without historical significance.

When you talked to people of my parent’s generation — my father was born on a farm in Randolph County, Alabama, in 1923 — and asked about how poor they were, they’d laugh and say, “But we didn’t know we were poor — everybody was poor!” Sometimes I hear people talk about their impoverished immigrant ancestors from Poland or whatever, and I’m like, don’t tell me about how bad they had it in their shtetl, my folks grew up in Alabama during the Depression. Like the children of Jewish immigrants, my generation grew up with a heavy load of parent-inflicted guilt about how easy we had it, there in our middle-class suburban homes, compared to the hardships of Alabama farm life.

So the South was defeated in war, and plunged into decades of grim poverty, but then they discovered college football.

On New Year’s Day in 1926, Johnny Mack Brown caught two touchdown passes to lead the Crimson Tide to a stunning come-from-behind upset victory over the Washington Huskies in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

This was arguably the most important game in football history:

It was more than a football game. It was the chance to avenge the South, to reclaim the valor and honor of the Lost Cause. No longer would this land be known for its hookworm and illiteracy. It would be the home of the best damn football in the nation!
“The 1926 Rose Bowl was without a doubt the most important game before or since in Southern football history,” says Birmingham News sportswriter Clyde Bolton. . . .
Once in California, Alabama coach Wallace Wade feared that his team was being distracted by the photo opportunities that had been arranged by Hollywood press moguls. So he sequestered his players and put them through some of the toughest practices of the season.
Meanwhile, Champ Pickens, a tireless Alabama promoter, began predicting an upset and constantly reminded the players about their obligation to history.
“He wired all the presidents of the civic clubs in Tuscaloosa and told them to send telegrams out to the Alabama players that the honor of the Confederacy was on their shoulders. They had to avenge losing the Civil War by beating these Washington Yankees,” Bolton explained.
No matter that the Yankees in the state of Washington had nothing to do with the South’s defeat in 1865. Even Wade played on loyalty to the region when Alabama went into the locker room at the half trailing 12-0. “And they told me Southern boys would fight,” was all he told his team. . . .
“You can look at the 1926 Rose Bowl as the most significant event in Southern football history,” said Andrew Doyle, a history professor at Winthrop University who has written about the sport. “What had come before was almost like a buildup, a preparation for this grand coming out party. And it was a sublime tonic for Southerners who were buffeted by a legacy of defeat, military defeat, a legacy of poverty, and a legacy of isolation from the American political and cultural mainstream.”

“Remember the Rose Bowl we’ll win then” — it’s still in our fight song.

Looking back over the many decades since that first National Championship for the Crimson Tide, and considering everything that has transpired in the history of Alabama and the nation at large, it is remarkable what a role college football has played in uplifting the formerly downtrodden. What a stunning thing to consider how a boy who grew up as the 11th of 12 children in a farm family in Cleveland County, Arkansas, could go on to play for the finest football team in the whole country — undefeated Alabama won the 1935 Rose Bowl, beating Stanford 29-13 — and eventually become the head coach of the Crimson Tide. Yes, I’m talking about Paul “Bear” Bryant, who famously said of his legacy, “I ain’t never been nothing but a winner.”

Damn your eyes, David Hookstead, how can you not be an Alabama fan? Who can be a conservative, after all, and not love tradition?

Even as I write these words, Alabama girls are picking out their gameday wardrobe to include black-and-white houndstooth in memory of Coach Bryant, who died 20 years before they were born — tradition!

My parents met and married at Tuscaloosa where my Dad was Class of 1950, so I was raised up on that tradition. Many a childhood Saturday, we’d travel to Legion Field in Birmingham, where Alabama played most of its big home games in those days. I learned the kickoff ritual of that chant starting with a low rumbling, “Rollll” that crescendoed up to a mighty roar: “TIDE! ROLL!” The finest football team in the whole damned country, and my Dad was an alumni, thanks to the G.I. Bill. Every Saturday now in the fall, my brothers and I will call each other after Alabama scores a touchdown and shout, “Roll Tide!” My kids have continued the ritual of this traditional greeting.

You hate us ’cause you ain’t us, David Hookstead.

In more than 130 years of football, the University of Wisconsin has won exactly one National Championship, and 1942 was a long time ago.

Envy is an unworthy emotion — Wisconsin fans just hate Alabama because we win National Championships and you don’t. You’re scapegoating the Tide for the failure of your own sub-standard team.

Well, I’m an old man and this Hookstead character is an impudent young whippersnapper, but if God grants me another three years of life, I’ll be watching on Sept. 14, 2024, when the Wisconsin Badgers travel to Tuscaloosa to face the might, mighty Crimson Tide.

So we’ve got three years of trash-talking ahead of us, me and Hookstead, and there ain’t no trash-talking like SEC trash-talking.

Oh, hey, sorry to hear about your racist rock, Wisconsin. Y’all so “woke” up there, it’s no wonder you don’t know how to play football. Team probably spent halftime arguing about their pronouns, while they were getting beat by Northwestern last year, and then you played in the Mayonnaise Bowl — what a prestigious honor! — where you managed to beat a 4-4 Wake Forest team. I mean, c’mon, Wake Forest? They’re the Vanderbilt of the ACC. Not a real football team, even by ACC standards.

Wisconsin lost three games last year. Alabama hasn’t lost more than two games in a season since 2010. So who is this David Hookstead, to say that he’s “not an Alabama fan at all,” as if that’s a point of pride?

Well, we’ve got to wait three years to make that son of bitch regret it, but fortunately I married into a family of Ohio State fans, so I’ll get a chance to cheer for the Buckeyes to beat the Badgers if — and it’s a big “if” — Wisconsin can make it to the Big 10 title game. On the other hand, if God is an Alabama fan (and we’re pretty sure he is), then a curse will fall on the Badgers because of the way David Hookstead dissed the Tide, and Wisconsin will suffer a season of defeat and shame.

Drown ’em, Tide!
Every ’Bama man’s behind you, hit your stride!

But we take ’em one game at a time, and today we’ve got beat Miami. I told my brother Kirby, I’ve got a bad feeling about this game.

“What do you mean, a bad feeling?”
“I don’t know. Maybe a terrorist attack.”
“Terrorist attack? At a football game?”
“Well, I don’t want to say the L-word.”

If jihadis drive a suicide truck bomb into the stadium, that would be bad, but not as bad as . . . Well, can’t say the “L-word” on gameday.

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Category: Alabama, Football

In The Mailbox: 09.03.21

Posted on | September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.03.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Hat Trick
357 Magnum: COVID Can’t Get You If You’re Traveling To A Climate Summit
EBL: American Flag First Flies In Battle
Twitchy: Ted Cruz Slams Administration Over Reports Of Child Brides Among Afghan Refugees, also, Babylon Bee Has To Explain Its Ivermectin Joke About Democrats Refusing To Drink Water
Louder With Crowder: Women Dress As Boobs, Parade Outside Facebook In Protest Of Algorithm Only Showing Male Nipples
According To Hoyt: Goodbye, My Friend, also, We’re Living In The Stupidest Plot
Monster Hunter Nation: Where Have All The Biden Voters Gone? also, WriterDojo Episode 3 – The Basics Of Business

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Supreme Court’s Historical Forgetfulness
American Greatness: Jacob Chansley Pleads Guilty, Remains In Jail, also, Colorado High School Students Walk Out To Protest Mask Mandates
American Power: GOP Blames Pentagon Planner Colin Kahl For Bungled Afghanistan Strategy, also, “We Can Never Fight Another War Like Afghanistan Ever Again”
American Thinker: Biden’s Other Military Collapse, also, Why All The Fuss About Ivermectin?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Fossil Fuels Friday, Part 1
Babalu Blog: Another Beautiful Morning In Socialist Cuba, also, Over 5,000 Cubans Arrested For Protesting On July 11
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 3
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, The Problem Starship Poses To NASA & Congress
Cafe Hayek: A Simple Truth
Da Tech Guy: Reminder – They Don’t Believe This “Birthing Person” Stuff Either
Don Surber: What Do You Do With A Woken Military? also, Math Explains Why Vaccinated People Spread COVID
First Street Journal: I Completely Support This Minneapolis Measure, also, Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: Wisconsin To Begin Audit Of 2020 Election Results, also, President Trump – “The Only Reason You Have A Republican Party Is Because The Democrats Have Horrible Policies”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, The Bullet Cluster
Hollywood In Toto: Woke Cinderella Trashed By Progressive Critics, also, Even More Alarming Proof Of Hollywood’s Blacklist 2.0
The Lid: The Lid On The Schaftlein Report – Afghan Debacle Fallout Grows
Legal Insurrection: California Pro-Antifa Teacher To Be Fired By District, Valparaiso U. Closes Confucius Center As Attorney General Begins Investigation, and Why Parental Pushback Against CRT Scares Democrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Ashamed & Furious
Outkick: Dan Woke’n Thinks Climate Change Will Make Football Impossible In The Fall, also, Colts LB Leonard Not Getting Jab Until he Gets More Info
Power Line: Thanks, Kamala, also, Stranded (Not Stranded) Continued
Shark Tank: Rubio Ad Outlines Demings’ Support For Green New Deal, Progressive Voting Record
Shot In The Dark: Surprising Nobody, also, Immolation
The Political Hat: Pledging Allegiance To The Queers, also, Firing Line Friday – How The Vietnam War Was Lost
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Female Draft Added To Senate Defense Bill, and Another Fundraiser
Transterrestrial Musings:
Victory Girls: Occasional Cortex Explains War is Not A Cakewalk
Volokh Conspiracy: Four Things Opponents Of SB 8 Shouldn’t Say
Weasel Zippers: Biden On Horrible August Jobs Report – “The Biden Plan Is Working”, also, Biden Again Refuses To Answer Questions About Americans Abandoned In Afghanistan
The Federalist: Suddenly, The Left Remembers Men & Women Are Different, also, New Michelob Ad Campaign Says Women Should Be Seen Not Heard
Mark Steyn: We Have Met The Enemy Part XVIII, also, The Great Complacency

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Category: Linkagery

Why Do Democrats (and Rick Wilson) Want to Kill Texas Babies So Much?

Posted on | September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Why Do Democrats (and Rick Wilson) Want to Kill Texas Babies So Much?

In case you missed it this week, the Supreme Court refused to grant an injunction against a new so-called “heartbeat” law in Texas. The law prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detectable, basically six weeks into gestation — which is only about a month after a pregnant woman would have missed her period. Most abortions are performed later than this, and therefore this new law very nearly outlaws abortion. Democrats are having a complete meltdown over the Texas law, with Joe Biden promising a “whole-of-government effort” to ensure that . . .

Well, those Texas babies must die. It’s imperative, for some reason.

This takes us back to the original problem with Roe v. Wade. What had happened, in the few years before that 1973 Supreme Court decision, was that some states had liberalized their abortion laws, while other states hadn’t. Prior to the mid-1960s, it was very difficult to get an abortion in the United States not just because of state laws, but also because the Hippocratic Oath forbids it, and reputable doctors would have nothing to do with such an immoral and unethical practice. In 1970, New York legalized abortions in nearly all cases, up until 24 weeks (i.e., six months) of pregnancy. This created a situation in which pregnant women from other states seeking abortions flocked to New York, where abortionists were very busy for the next few years while the Roe v. Wade (and lesser-known Doe v. Bolton) cases made their way to the Supreme Court, which voted 7-2 to, in effect, apply the New York law nationwide.

As Ronald Reagan said, what the Supreme Court did in this case was to declare the laws of 49 states null and void — based on what? There was nothing at all in the Constitution about abortion, and the 10th Amendment certainly would protect the right of states to legislate in such matters, as in fact they had done for more than 150 years. In his dissent, Justice Byron White described the majority’s ruling in Roe v. Wade as “an exercise of raw judicial power”:

I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court’s judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right . . . and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes.

Why did this happen? Well, I could write a book on the subject, but such a book has already been written, Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America by Donald T. Critchlow. Basically, a bunch of wealthy proponents of eugenics (among them an heir to the Rockefeller fortune) were obsessed with what Lothrop Stoddard called The Rising Tide of Color. There were too many brown babies being born, and from this fear emerged the “population control” movement, which advocated “family planning” as the solution.

It was this billionaire-funded movement, with its alarmist rhetoric about the dangers of “overpopulation,” that was the real driving power behind the Roe v. Wade decision, and talk about “women’s rights” was just camouflage for the population control agenda. People let themselves be deceived about this not only because they bought into phony propaganda about the alleged constitutional “right” involved, but also because they didn’t want to deal with the uncomfortable truth.

So now, after nearly half-a-century of conservative promises to do something about the abortion issue, Texas Republicans have finally gone far enough to directly challenge Roe v. Wade, and guess what? The alleged Principled Conservatives™ are against it:

Political commentator Bill Kristol said Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the new Texas abortion law is “extreme” and “un-American.” . . .
Kristol said, “Well, it’s so extreme. Six-week limit, which is actually less than six weeks if you look at the details of the law, six weeks not from the inception of pregnancy, and then this kind of snitch, you know, snitch on your neighbors’ aspect, which seems pretty un-American.”
He added, “So I think it’s a foolish law from the pro-life point of view. It’s not going to advance the cause. I don’t think it’s going to save a lot of unborn babies honestly in Texas, and it’s going to cause a big backlash in Texas and elsewhere.”

Got that? Texans are “un-American,” according to Bill Kristol. He repeats the Left’s distortions about the law which, as Carrie Severino explains, “allows private citizens to file suit against any person who provides an abortion or aids or abets such an abortion.” How that gets twisted into an “un-American snitch-on-your-neighbors” scheme, I don’t know, but CNN isn’t going to ask Kristol any tough questions about it. The Court went out of its way to emphasize that its denial of an injunction against the Texas law was not “substantive,” but rather they ruled that the challenge to the law was procedurally flawed. This won’t stop the hair-on-fire liberals from running around waving coat hangers at protests. What the Texas legislature has done — and quite cleverly — is to set up a scenario in which abortion providers could go bankrupt trying to defend themselves against lawsuits. Awww, wouldn’t that be a shame, if Planned Parenthood were forced to spend money defending its gruesome business in Texas courts, instead of spending money to help elect Democrats?

You think Democrats are too stupid to see this threat for what it is?

No, Joe Biden and his friends aren’t concerned about the “rights” of Texas women, they’re concerned about the millions of dollars in campaign cash they get from Planned Parenthood. There is a symbiotic relationship between the abortion industry and the Democratic Party, and Texas has put itself in a position to destroy that lucrative nexus.

Meanwhile, Principled Conservative™ Rick Wilson and the Lincoln Project are demanding a business boycott of Texas.

Taking notice of this, RBPundit calls attention to how Rick Wilson used to claim to be against abortion, before Trump broke him.

Ace of Spades really hates these guys, and insists they were always secretly liberals, sabotaging the conservative movement from the inside. Because I’m a cynic, however, I think the correct explanation is that all of these guys were just careerists, in it for the money, and when Trump came along, they saw an opportunity to cash in. That, plus the desire to garner “Strange News Respect” from the liberal media. So by my way of thinking, these guys never really believed in anything but the advancement of their own narrow self-interest, and they don’t believe in anything now. They were, and still are, just political whores.

'What a fraud': Thread takes a look back at how Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson used to feel about abortion before he realized dead babies were better for business https://t.co/MSP88qdAKp

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 3, 2021

Category: Abortion, Supreme Court, Texas

Jews Died, Biden Lied — Synagogue Says He Never Visited After 2018 Massacre

Posted on | September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Jews Died, Biden Lied — Synagogue Says He Never Visited After 2018 Massacre

In October 2018, a 46-year-old truck driver named Robert Bowers opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, reportedly yelling, “All Jews must die!” He killed 11 people and wounded six others, using pistols and an AR-15 rifle. Now Joe Biden is lying about it:

The Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has disputed President Joe Biden’s claim of having visited with Jewish leaders following the horrific massacre in October 2018. . . .
On Thursday, during a virtual address ahead of the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, President Biden claimed he also visited the Tree of Life synagogue following the attack — a claim the synagogue now disputes.
“I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,” Biden said, as reported by the New York Post.
However, the synagogue’s executive director, Barb Feige, says that visit never happened.
“In a phone interview, Feige, executive director since July 2019, said firmly that ‘no’ Biden didn’t visit, even before taking office when he had a lower public profile as a former vice president and then-Democratic presidential candidate,” reported the New York Post.
The White House did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.

Guess who actually did visit the synagogue? President Trump, that’s who.

How many other things does Joe “remember” that aren’t true?

Category: Joe Biden

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | September 3, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

When Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana, everybody was impacted, but the demented and deranged were incapable of coping:

A 65-year-old Kenner resident who had been committed to the hospital more than a dozen times for mental health issues was identified Thursday as the woman shot to death by a Jefferson Parish deputy sheriff after she hurled racist slurs at a water main repair crew in Metairie and twice tried to run over another deputy with her car.
The death of Anne Schilly illustrates how the grueling conditions left behind by Hurricane Ida can strain those who are living with mental illness, said Jefferson’s coroner, Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich.
Jefferson was still saddled with widespread power and water outages on Thursday, four days after a fierce Hurricane Ida roared ashore, exacerbating the extreme temperatures that are typical this time of year. Gasoline was also in precariously short supply, keeping most businesses closed and government services such as garbage collection slow to come online.
“This place right now is not the place for” people with mental health issues, said Cvitanovich, whose office handles mental health commitments along with death examinations. “If you have the opportunity to get these people out, please do so. The resources here are not good for them. It is a dangerous situation.”
Exact details about why Schilly had been involuntarily committed weren’t available Thursday. But Cvitanovich estimated she had been committed 15 to 20 times.
The Sheriff’s Office was also familiar with her, though it wasn’t immediately clear how many times deputies had encountered her and what the outcomes of those interactions were.
A woman identifying herself as Schilly’s daugther said that in addition to mental illness, her mother had long struggled with alcohol addiction and the death of her husband.
Schilly drove up to parish workers repairing a damaged water main in the 6400 block of Park Manor Drive on Wednesday. She began yelling that they were “f—-g n—-s” who needed to go back to their countries, according to video recorded by an eyewitness and shared with The Times-Picayune.
The workers flagged down deputies and reported the harassment. The deputies spoke with Schilly while she was still in her BMW sport-utility vehicle. . . .

OK, stop right there! How the heck is this deranged woman driving a BMW? There is something deeply wrong in this world, when I’m driving a battered old Nissan while a dangerous lunatic who ought to be in a mental institution is driving a luxury SUV. But never mind that . . .

A video recorded by the witness showed Schilly pointing at the workers, again calling them racist names and demanding that deputies arrest them.
One of the deputies was wearing street clothes, while another wore a uniform. Both seemed to try to get her to calm down and leave, but she ultimately rolled her window up and sped off, hitting and dragging the plainclothes deputy down the street while he had a hand on her car.
The deputies chased her by car for almost a mile to Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Lisa Drive, where she encountered a traffic jam. She hit the same deputy a second time after he stepped in front of her vehicle. At that point, the other deputy fired his duty pistol several times, striking and killing her.
Sheriff Joe Lopinto said it’s always difficult when deputies must fire their weapons to protect their own lives. But he said his officer acted justifiably, and there was no excuse for Schilly to behave the way she did.

It’s probably wrong for me to say I’m glad they shot her, but it’s very important, from a “social justice” perspective, that cops kill white people when they do things that they’d get shot for if they were black. We can’t have “white privilege” protecting crazy people, especially the ones who try to run over cops while driving BMWs.