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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

This is a mugshot of Austin William Lanz, when he was arrested in April in Cobb County, Georgia, after breaking into a neighbor’s home. Lanz, who lived with his parents in Acworth, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, had spent months harassing the neighbor and the neighbor’s fiancée:

He was recorded on video by the security system roaming the house for 13 minutes and turned on all the lights, which police said indicated that he’d been “searching through the residence for something or someone.” He left without taking anything, according to arrest reports and court filings.
Lanz was arrested and booked on charges of burglary and trespassing charges. When informed he was being charged, Lanz objected, saying, “but I didn’t take anything,” the arrest report said. He then made statements to a police officer about how planes had been flying over the neighborhood and tracking his cellphone.

(What part of “crazy” do I need to explain here?)

While being processed at the county jail, Lanz . . . attacked two sheriff’s deputies in the intake area without provocation, including one who sustained a chipped bone and torn ligament in her knee. After he was restrained, Lanz reportedly accused the officers of being “gay” for teaming up on him and asked to be uncuffed so he could fight them one-on-one.
A judge reduced his bond in May to $30,000 and released him, imposing some conditions, including that he not take illegal drugs, that he undergo a mental health evaluation and that he not possess a firearm. . . .

(“Hey, this psycho attacked two deputies, but I’m going to turn him loose, on condition he get some help with his mental health.”)

The April break-in was the culmination of a lengthy harassment campaign that involved sexually explicit and “vaguely threatening” messages that Lanz was caught on surveillance camera slipping into the mailbox of the neighboring home where [Phillip] Brent and his then-fiancee lived, Brent said.
The harassment briefly stopped after the police, presented with the video footage, confronted Lanz with a warning, Brent said.
But it later resumed, including in the form of a massive cardboard sign that was duct-taped on Brent’s front door and said, cryptically, on one side: “I’m done wondering for real” and “Wut is the point of that” on the other.
By the time of the break-in, Brent said, he was so unnerved that he was sleeping at his sister’s house. On April 24, around 4 a.m., he was alerted that the alarm company had reported a break-in at his home. He pulled up the surveillance system video camera on his phone, “and I was like, oh, it’s Austin.”
He said Lanz broke in through the back door with a sledgehammer, opened all the blinds and rummaged through his bed. Though it is not mentioned in the police report, Lanz was also carrying a handgun, Brent said.
“It was terrifying,” he said.
Brent and his former fiancee, Eliza Wells, said they were frustrated with the criminal justice system, which they say failed to initially treat the harassment claims with appropriate seriousness and then permitted him to be out on bond.

Did you hear that? The victim of a crime is “frustrated with the criminal justice system,” and if you think Phillip Brent is frustrated, imagine the family of the Pentagon cop Lanz murdered this week:

The man who killed a Pentagon police officer at a nearby transit center Tuesday got off a bus, immediately stabbed the officer and then shot himself with the officer’s gun, the FBI says.
Officer George Gonzalez was killed in the line of duty after a burst of violence on a bus platform outside the headquarters of the U.S. military. The Pentagon was temporarily locked down.
The FBI said in new information Wednesday that Austin William Lanz, 27, of Georgia, is the suspect. Lanz died at the scene. A “civilian bystander” was wounded and had non-life-threatening injuries.
According to the FBI, Lanz got off a bus at the Pentagon Transit Center in Arlington at about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday and “immediately, without provocation, attacked Officer George Gonzalez with a knife, severely wounding him.”
A “struggle ensued” and Lanz mortally wounded Gonzalez.
Lanz then shot himself with Gonzalez’ gun.

When a psycho spends months harassing his neighbors, then commits a burglary, and attacks sheriff’s deputies at the jail maybe — just maybe — you should keep him behind bars? When he’s obviously delusional, and thinks planes flying over his house are tracking his cellphone?

How long have I been saying this? Crazy People Are Dangerous!




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.03.21

Posted on | August 3, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.03.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Operator-chan on temporary duty at the NSA. She’s watching you degenerates.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Security For Me, But Not For Thee
EBL: Creepy Groper Andrew Napolitano Out At Fox News
Twitchy: Phrasing! VP Harris Traveling To Vietnam To Announce “America Is Back”
Louder With Crowder: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Busted Drafting Excuses For Brother Andrew’s Sexual Harassment Allegations 
Vox Popoli: Flirting With Debt Default, also, They’re Whacking Fredo

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Bigots Must Become Extinct, Or Something
American Conservative: Money, Threats, & Military Power
American Greatness: Soros-Backed Virginia Prosecutors Facing Recall Trials, also, Another Partisan Stunt By The U.S. Capitol Police
American Thinker: It’s Republicans Who Are A Threat To Democracy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Dissident Right News
Babalu Blog: Heritage Foundation Has Grim Assessment Of Biden’s Cuba Policy – Obama Disaster Is Back
BattleSwarm: 2,702 Pages Of Pork, also, Austin Police Refunding Initiative Makes The November Ballot
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, SpaceX Installs 29 Raptor Engines On Superheavy #4
Cafe Hayek: Investment Changes The Utility Calculus
CDR Salamander: East Of Suez Gets Interesting Again
Da Tech Guy: With All The COVID Hype, You Probably Missed…, also, Quick Thoughts Under The Fedora – Mostly Olympics Edition
Don Surber: Don’t Misunderestimate BIden, also, Companies Notice Inflation
First Street Journal: LAUSD Plans On Physically Assaulting Every Student & Employee Every Week
The Geller Report: Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) Calls For Impeachment Of Biden & DHS Chief Over Border Crisis, also,  Texas “HCQ Doc” Sues CNN & Anderson Cooper For $100 Million
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Well, That Didn’t Age Well
Hollywood In Toto: Five Instant Takeaways From Venom 2 Trailer, also, Will Hollywood’s #MeToo Movement Finally Hold Gov. Cuomo Accountable?
The Lid: Dumb-Dumb DeBlasio Makes NYC First In The Nation To Require Proof Of Jab For Dining
Legal Insurrection: Court Issues TRO Halting Texas’ Illegal Migrant Transport Ban, also, NY Gov. Cuomo Denies Sexual Harassment Allegations, Refuses To Resign
Nebraska Energy Observer: Welcoming A Friend Back To Our World
Outkick: Olympic Gold Medalist Wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock – “I Love Representing The U.S.”, also, Texas State Legislators Grill UT During Hearings About Move To SEC
Power Line: It’s Not Just Little Girls, also, Why Were DOJ Warnings To Protect The Capitol Ignored?
Shark Tank: Sabatini – “Stephanie Murphy Is One Of The Dumbest Members Of Congress”
Shot In The Dark: Void
The Political Hat: Australia Vs. Online Anonymity
This Ain’t Hell: VA Finally Accepting Claims Related To SW Asia Burn Pits, also, Active Shooter At Pentagon, One Policeman Reportedly Killed
Transterrestrial Musings: Space Barons
Victory Girls: Fourth Capitol Police Officer’s Suicide Raises Questions
Volokh Conspiracy: The CDC’s New Eviction Moratorium Has Virtually All The Same Flaws As The Old One
Weasel Zippers: Fauxcahontas Claims “Abortion is About The Functioning Of Our Democracy”, also, Sharpton Tells Left To “Rise Up” Against “Racist Cowards” Who Oppose Critical Race Theory
The Federalist: Masks & CRT Are Just The Start – It’s Time To Break The Public Schools, also, A List Of All The Blue-Check Journos Who Lavished Praise On Andrew Cuomo Last Year
Mark Steyn: The Canyons Of His Mind, also, Who Ya Gonna Believe?

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CUOMO: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

Posted on | August 3, 2021 | Comments Off on CUOMO: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

The governor of New York is a criminal:

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) announced on Tuesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) sexually harassed current and former state employees, violating both federal and state law, as determined by the months-long investigation.
“The independent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James announced on Tuesday.
The investigation found that the governor specifically “sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women.”
The investigators, the attorney general continued, independently “corroborated and substantiated” the facts through interviews, evidence, including contemporaneous notes and communications, which will be made available to the public . . .
The probe included interviews with 179 people and over 74,000 pieces of evidence . . .
“These interviews and pieces of evidence revealed a deeply disturbing yet clear picture: Governor Cuomo sexually harassed current and former state employees, federal and state laws,” James continued. “The independent investigation found that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, many of whom were young women.”
The harassment included “unwanted groping, kisses, hugging, and by making inappropriate comments.”
The investigation determined that Cuomo and his senior team, on at least one occasion, actively worked to retaliate against a former employee after she stepped forward.
Cuomo’s administration, James said, “fostered a toxic workplace that enabled harassment and created a hostile work environment where staffers did not feel comfortable coming forward with complaints about sexual harassment due to a climate of fear.”

You want to talk about a “climate of fear”? He killed thousands of grannies! So while I feel sorry for the government employees Cuomo groped, they should be grateful that at least he didn’t send them to die alone in disease-infested nursing homes. Ed Driscoll reminds us that in March, President Biden said, if the accusations were proven true, Cuomo should resign and “I think he’ll probably end up being prosecuted, too.”

Well, who’s going to prosecute him, Joe? The state attorney general just declared that Cuomo violated federal law, so maybe the guy in charge of the federal government needs to make that prosecution happen.

(Click here if you didn’t get the headline reference from 1973.)

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Crime, Democrats, New York, Scandal, Sex

In The Mailbox: 08.02.21

Posted on | August 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.02.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

It was the beginning of the end.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: An Observation Or Two On Jab Mandates
357 Magnum: Shootapalooza In Chicago
EBL: COVID Cases Are Out Of Control!
Twitchy: “Imagine You’re A Normal Person”, also, WaPo Blames “Gun Obsessives’ Delusional Oversensitivity” For Worthless Meatbag Chipman’s Failure To be Confirmed As ATF Director
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) Gets Texas Fleebagger To Admit Voter IDs Aren’t Oppression
Vox Popoli: We All Won, also, That Should Go Over Well
Stoic Observations: The Strategic Air Command Parent
Gab News: An Alternative To Paypal Is Coming

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: In The Firing Line
American Conservative: General Milley’s Imaginary Coup
American Greatness: Incompetence + Arrogance = Woke, also, Woke Church Woes
American Power: Amy Chua At Yale
American Thinker: The Three Horsemen Of The Bidenocalypse
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Canadian Tourism To Cuba Helps Fund Communist Regime’s Violent Repression
BattleSwarm: Kentucky Minigunning, also, Chronicles Of The Crazy Years 1 – Gas Station Liability Lunacy
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Russia Offers Conflicting Causes For Nauka Engine Misfiring
Cafe Hayek: Indeed
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, American Generalship In The Long War
Da Tech Guy: The COVID Vaccine Logic Pretzels, also, Electronic Monitoring For Criminals In Chicago & Cook County Is A Failure
Don Surber: Occasional Cortex Discards Susan Sarandon Like A Used Condom, also, Global Cooling Is The Problem
First Street Journal: Who Knew So Many Black Americans Were Trump Supporters? also, Two More Capitol Kerflufflers Plead Guilty To Misdemeanors
Fred On Everything: How Taiwan Will Fall Into Beijing’s Lap Like An Overripe Mango
The Geller Report: What Was Pelosi Doing In Red China On 11/1/20? also, President Trump Raises More Money Than Any Ex-President In History – $82 Million
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, These Seem So…So Similar
Hollywood In Toto: Hitchcock’s Rear Window Is The Perfect Film For Our Paranoid Age, also, Et Tu, Kevin Smith?
The Lid: GOP COVID Origin Study Shows Virus Escaped From Wuhan Lab Long Before First Case Reported
Legal Insurrection: Idiot Kendi Compares Republicans Who Oppose COVID Lockdowns To Slave Owners, also, Palin For Senate In 2022?
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Wuhan Two-Step
Outkick: Clemson & Florida State Want In To The SEC, also, US Womens’ Soccer Team Falls To Canada, Won’t Compete For Gold
Power Line: The Decline Of The West, also, Ashli Babbitt & George Floyd, Compare & Contrast
Shark Tank: Scott Calls For Red China’s Removal From Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
Shot In The Dark: A Meused – Part One, also, Condolences
The Political Hat: Big Brother Is Watching What You Eat
This Ain’t Hell: Politifact Looking To Fill Position On Misinformation Team, also, Gov. Abbott Fires Back At Biden’s DOJ
Transterrestrial Musings: A New Comic Strip, also, The Space Resource
Victory Girls: Landlords Win, also, US Women’s Soccer Team Loses & Patriots Cheer
Volokh Conspiracy: No Qualified Immunity For University Of Iowa Officials Who Violated Christian Students’ First Amendment Rights
Weasel Zippers: Cops Bust Trans Internet Star For Allegedly Raping His 80 Year Old Mom, also, Hypocrite DC Democrat Mayor Breaks Own Mask Mandate
The Federalist: If You Don’t Suspect Government Provocation At The 1/6 Riot, Start Paying Attention, also, Biden & Harris Approval Ratings Plunge Across Several Polls
Mark Steyn: How To Handle A Woman (And A Melon), also, City Onscreen – Los Angeles Plays Itself

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Jodie Comer

Posted on | August 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Jodie Comer

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So at first I was going to do another Scarlett Johansson post, because she’s been in the news lately after suing the Evil Mouse for schlonging her over the Black Widow release and costing her a few million bucks, but then I decided otherwise.* See, there’s this Ryan Reynolds flick Free Guy coming out soon, in which there’s a character named Milly, who also exists within the game world where Reynolds’ character lives as a heroine called Molotov Girl. She looks pretty nice, as you can see from this promotional wallpaper, and from the trailer.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Jodie Comer. Ryan Reynolds. Much action. Very cool. Wow.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1428, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Vaccine Skeptics Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: Bacon – Come & Take It, Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney, Hannah Barron Catfish Noodling, Yellowstone – Revenge Will Be Worth The Wait, Fishing, and MAGA Jersey Shore Summer

A View From The Beach: Yvonne Strahovski, Election 2020: Insurrection Committee Fallout Continues,Fish Pic Friday – Camryn Hobbs, Go Team!, Truckin’ Into Thursday, SJWs Go After Fisheries Science, I Guess Nobody Told Her About the Birds and the Bees?, New Research on Striper Migrations, Tuesday Tattoos, Great Barrier Reef Doing Just Fine, Thanks!, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Ice Cream Sunday

Brian Noggle: The Two Danas of Tombstone

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

*I was also considering the R-rated version of Operator-chan, but too many good 2D things will only spoil you people.

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Category: Rule 5

Sopranos Kill Count

Posted on | August 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Sopranos Kill Count

Murder is wrong, and criminal gangs are bad, except when the murdering gangsters are popular entertainment. Over the course of six seasons, HBO’s series The Sopranos featured 62 murders, including nine committed by Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri. Tony Soprano personally committed eight on-screen murders. This YouTube video claims to have every murder from the entire series, in just nine minutes:

 

Why am I showing you this? Because I was working on something long and thoughtful, then laid down for a nap and lost my momentum. Rather than leave you with nothing, it’s the video murder fest.

You’re welcome.




 

Category: Crime

FMJRA 2.0: I’d Rather Die Than Give You Control

Posted on | July 31, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: I’d Rather Die Than Give You Control

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Seriously, keep the door closed. We’re not kidding.

SOTD
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Rule 5 Sunday: Bunny Girl Senpai
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Return of the Aspiring Rapper Update
Bacon Time
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Camouflage
A View From The Beach
EBL

Liberalism as Organized Ignorance
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘There’s Always a Reason’
EBL

The #1 Cause of Anti-Semitism
A View From The Beach
EBL

Forget ‘De-funding Police,’ AOC Now Wants to Abolish the Prison System
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 07.26.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

A ‘Surge’ of Media-Hyped Fear
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.27.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Bang Bang Fang Fang: Eric Swalwell’s China Spy Secrets Inspire Painful Puns
EBL
357 Magnum

Wisdom From a Whore
EBL

Georgia Democrats Admit They’re ‘F**ked’
Survival Tricks
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.28.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 07.29.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

37% of Criminals Released From Prison Get Re-Arrested Within ONE YEAR
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 07.30.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending July 30:

  1.  EBL (17)
  2.  357 Magnum (10)
  3.  (tied) A View From The Beach & Proof Positive (9)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Big Yellow Button Returns

Posted on | July 31, 2021 | Comments Off on The Big Yellow Button Returns

 

As every regular reader of this blog knows, the yellow “donate” button takes you to my PayPal account, where you can contribute dollars, pounds, Euros, shekels, rubles or whatever to support the blog.

PayPal has been very, very good to me over the years, and I was disturbed when I read that PayPal is teaming up with the ADL and SPLC to defund alleged “extremist” sites. We know very well how Big Tech has spent the past five years deplatforming anyone who dissents from the “social justice” narrative, and it’s frighten to think that PayPal would join forces with an organization as thoroughly disreputable as the SPLC.

David Sacks, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who was once chief operating officer (COO) of PayPal, shares his concerns about this issue:

I’m a Jewish American who has special appreciation for the ADL’s historical role as a watchdog against antisemitism. . . .
The point is that the ADL, like the SPLC, now weighs in on issues far beyond its original purview.
Just as there is no set definition of “hate speech” that everyone agrees upon, the definition of a “hate group” is nebulous and ripe for overuse by those with an agenda. So it should come as no surprise that the ever-increasing list of suspects has grown from unquestionable hate groups, like neo-nazis and the KKK, to organizations who espouse socially conservative views, like the Family Research Council, religious liberty advocates, and even groups concerned with election integrity.
The reclassification of political opponents as hate groups has been enabled by expansive redefinitions of terms like racism, segregation and white supremacy. . . .
I have no desire to defend genuinely hateful or extremist groups. Indeed, when I was COO at PayPal, we regularly worked with law enforcement to restrict illegal activity on our platform. But we are talking about something very different here: shutting down people and organizations that express views that are entirely lawful, even if they are unpopular in Silicon Valley. . . .
I implore my successors at PayPal and other Big Tech companies to stop throwing kindling on the fires of populism by locking people out of the online public square and the modern web-based economy. Silenced voices and empty stomachs are fuel for the very extremism you claim to oppose.

Read the whole thing. The problem with boycotting PayPal is that there is no comparable substitute. Right now, I’m trying to plan a reporting trip to Florida, perhaps in September, so I once again urge readers to recall the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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