In The Mailbox: 06.09.21

Posted on | June 9, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.09.21

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1378
357 Magnum: Keep Calm & Run For Your Life
EBL: MSNBC’s Mara Gay Freaks Out Over American Flags
Twitchy: Seattle Bureaucrat Sends Out All-Staff Email Accusing City Cops Of Serving “False Gods Of White Supremacy”
Louder With Crowder: Teacher Tells School Board Where To Stick Its Indoctrination With Powerful Message For Parents & Students
Vox Popoli: The Alpha Weakness, also, The Criminalization of Reality
Gab News: Why Isn’t Trump On Gab?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Rejection Of MGTOW
American Greatness: IG Says Trump Didn’t Order Park Cleared Of “Peaceful Protesters” With Tear Gas For Photo Op, also, Senate’s Report On January 6 Blames Federal Law Enforcement
American Power: What Comes Next For Portland?
American Thinker: Why Obama’s So Defensive Of Critical Race Theory, also, Was George Gascon Elected By Fraud?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: U.S. Senate Bill Calls For Massive Aid To Repressive Cuban Dictatorship, also, Life As An Enslaved Cuban Doctor In Venezuela
BattleSwarm: Gun Owners Of America Blast Sen. John Cornyn
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Senate Passes NASA Authorization That Calls For Second Lunar Lander Contract
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: How Far Will South Africa Be Pulled Into Mozambique?
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Your Best Self, also, Counting To 50 – Why The MSM’s Joe Manchin Noise Means Nothing
Don Surber: Minneapolis Citizens File Mostly Peaceful Lawsuit, also, Red China’s Incompetence Threatens The World
First Street Journal: Requeiscat In Pace, also, Pegging The Irony Meter At The NYT
The Geller Report: Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Scolds Jews For Daring To Defend Themselves, also, LA Teacher Resigns From Union Over BDS Motion – “I Feel Unsafe As A Jew”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Ganymede Closeup
Hollywood In Toto: Does Country Music Care About Country Music Fans Any More?
The Lid: Rep. Boebert Takes VP Harris To The Southern Border
Legal Insurrection: Yale Distances Itself From Shrink Who Fantasized About Killing White People, also, IDF – Hamas Was Using Tower That Housed AP To Jam Iron Dome
Michelle Malkin: The Illusion Of Inclusion
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Old Mill, Part 9
Outkick: Veteran Red Sox Pitcher Chris Sale Says He’s Feeling Good, also, Nationals Trying To Figure Out Who Should Go & Who Should Stay
Power Line: Business Owners Tell Baltimore – No Police Protection? No Tax Payments, also, Omar Around The Bend
Shark Tank: Rep. Waltz Demands West Point Stop Teaching Critical Race Theory
Shot In The Dark: I Think I Figured It Out
The Political Hat: Through The Filtered Lens Of Critical Race Theory, Equality Is Discrimination & Freedom Is Oppression
This Ain’t Hell: James Graziopene Busted From MGEN To 2LT, also, Marine Raider Heads To Trial For Murder Of Green Beret In Mali
Transterrestrial Musings: Our Demented President, also, The Depravity
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden’s Laptop Reveals Use Of N-Word, Media Silent
Volokh Conspiracy: SCOTUS Reins In The CFAA, also, “A Narrative We Thought We Knew Is Not The Reality”
Weasel Zippers: Acting OMB Director Stands By Absurd “Birthing People” Reference In Biden’s Budget, also, The Keystone XL Pipeline is Dead
The Federalist: Catholic League Slams Biden For 32 Direct Violations Of Core Church Teachings, also, Iowa Latest State To ban Critical Race Theory In Public Schools
Mark Steyn: Virtue Signaling By Mask, also, Wu Is Us

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Whose ‘Democracy’ Is This?

Posted on | June 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Whose ‘Democracy’ Is This?

Since January 6, every liberal on cable TV news has been declaring that “our democracy” is endangered by Trump voters who don’t believe Joe Biden won the election fairly. The latest outburst, by New York Times columnist Mara Gay, depicted the American flag as a racist symbol of this alleged threat to “our democracy.” Having spent some time studying this problem, I finally located the root of the error:

Our liberty as Americans did not begin with the Declaration to which John Hancock and others affixed their signatures in July 1776. Rather, our rights can be traced to England as far back as the reign of King John, whom the barons compelled to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Over the course of the ensuing four centuries, before the first permanent English colony in the present-day United States was established, the limitations of royal power and the rights of His Majesty’s subjects had been developed in English law. It is this history that explains why, when the American colonists began to assert their right to self-government in the 1760s, their rallying cry was “No taxation without representation.”
Have our schools stopped teaching this history? When I was a schoolboy, our teachers made this point clear to us: the Stamp Act of 1765 was the spark that lit the flame of American liberty because it was understood by the colonists as a violation of their rights as Englishmen. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.

Category: American Spectator, History

In The Mailbox: 06.08.21

Posted on | June 9, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.08.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

No escape from the madness

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring An Axe To A Gunfight
Red Pilled Jew In Exile: Why I Want To Catch COVID
EBL: Pulp Fiction‘s Gimp Revealed
Twitchy: Jonah Goldberg Tries To Dunk On Gov, Abbott Over Vaccine Passport Ban
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden Erases Women In His Budget
Vox Popoli: They Want You Weak, Small, & Stupid, also, More Evidence Of The Obvious
Gab News: The System Hates White People – What’s To Come

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Secular Month Of State-Sponsored Sodomy
American Conservative: Will A Woke Spring Give Way To Thermidorian Relief?
American Greatness: After Reading Poll Workers’ Affidavits, Georgia Judge Orders Audit Of 147,000 Fulton County Ballots, also, Kamala Harris Says “We’ve Been To The Border” When Grilled On Not Going To The Border
American Thinker: What If Proof Of 2020 Election Fraud Develops? also, The Depravity Of The Democrats, Media, & The Left
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Red Chinese Defector News
Babalu Blog: Like Coffee & Rum, Tobacco Disappears From Cuban Peso Stores, also, A Message From The Moon For Cuba’s Sock Puppet President
BattleSwarm: Gov. Abbott – Two Special Sessions Coming, also, A Big Chunk Of The Internet Went Down This Morning
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Investors Sue Virgin Galactic For Stock Fraud
Cafe Hayek: Some COVID Links
CDR Salamander: Three Card NGAD
Da Tech Guy: When Democrats Complain About Gerrymandering, Ask “What About Illinois?”, also, “Little Practical Impact”? Don’t Be So Sure, AP
Don Surber: Joe Manchin Saved The Republic, also, Biden Killed The Incentive To Work
First Street Journal: Journolism At Its Finest! also, The Urban Climate Change Activists Can’t See Outside Their Own Little Worlds
The Geller Report: Ashli Babbitt’s Family Sues To Find Identity Of Cop Who Murdered Her, also, Jew-Hating Bella Hadid Posts Picture Of Team From “Palestine” – But They’re All Jews
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s The Liz Wheeler Show‘s Secret Weapon, also, Media Ignore Tom McDonald’s Anti-Woke Smash “Snowflakes”
The Lid: The Disgusting Lincoln Project Compares Antifa To D-Day Heroes
Legal Insurrection: Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Virginia Teacher Who Objected To Proposed “Preferred Pronoun Policy”, also, Sen. Grassley – DOJ, Explain Discrepancy Between Treatment Of #BLM/Antifa & Capitol Rioters
Nebraska Energy Observer: “Bois De La Brigade Du Marne”, also, There But For The Grace Of God
Outkick: Gerrit Cole Spin Rate Drops After Josh Donaldson Callout – The Yankees Should Be Terrified, also, Study – LeBron James Most Hated Basketball Player On Earth
Power Line: Will Biden Prosecute This Leak? also, Never Been To Spain, Kamala Harris Edition
Shark Tank: Lauren Book Fights Online Child Predation
Shot In The Dark: Way Too Good To Fact-Check, also, Purity Test
The Political Hat: Hegel, Wokeness, & The Dialectical Faith Of Leftism
This Ain’t Hell: Antifa Won World War II, also, Last Surviving Soldier Who Liberated Auschwitz Passes
Transterrestrial Musings: Racial Inequality In America, also, My Woke Employees
Victory Girls: Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad – Who Saw It Coming?
Volokh Conspiracy: Law Prof Skipped Plessy v. Ferguson, Edited Dred Scott Down To Two Paragraphs
Weasel Zippers: Cori Bush Tells Joe Manchin “Get In Line Or Get Out”, also, Bad Orange Woman Can’t Explain Why Biden Failed To Acknowledge D-Day Anniversary
The Federalist: Anti-Cop Commiesymp LeBron James Most Hated Player In NBA, also, NYT Staffer – Seeing “Dozens Of American Flags” Over The Weekend Was “Disturbing”
Mark Steyn: Caving In, also, Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

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Obama: Still the Divider-in-Chief

Posted on | June 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Obama: Still the Divider-in-Chief

Because I’m watching CNN, so you don’t have to:

Former President Barack Obama said in a new interview that racial inequality, nationalization of politics and “siloing of the media” is contributing to the intense political divisions in the country.
In a special interview with Anderson Cooper that aired on CNN Monday, the former president bashed Republicans for not pushing back on accusations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — and questioned a growing debate on critical race theory.
Cooper asked Obama if he felt he had told “the story of race in America” during his eight years as president.
“Each and every time I tried to describe why it is that we are still not fully reconciled with our history,” Obama said. “But, the fact is, it is a hard thing to hear.”
“It’s hard for the majority of this country of white Americans to recognize that, look, you can be proud of this country and its traditions and its history and our forefathers — and yet it is also true that this terrible stuff happened,” he added.
“And that, you know, the vestiges of that linger and continue.” . . .
“But I also think there are certain right wing media venues for example that monetize and capitalize on stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing a changing America and seeing demographic changes,” he said.
“And do everything they can to give people a sense that their way of life is threatened and people are trying to take advantage of them.”

Here’s an idea for you, Barry: Since you’re paying so much attention to “certain right wing media,” maybe you’re reading my blog, and let me suggest that perhaps this “fear and resentment” is not entirely irrational, that maybe “their way of life” really is being threatened.

See, for all their talk about “critical theory,” a lot of liberals don’t seem to spend much time critically examining their own beliefs. At least once or twice a week, I switch my TV off Fox News and watch CNN or MSNBC instead, just so I can see what kind of media diet liberals are consuming. This morning, while watching CNN, I not only saw them endlessly replaying and discussing video clips from the Obama interview, but I also noticed what they aren’t covering: Not a single mention of Dr. Fauci and U.S. funding for “gain of function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Because the media narrative isn’t only about what they report, it’s also about which stories they downplay or ignore altogether.

Why do you think “certain right wing media” attract an audience, Mr. Obama? Isn’t it because the mainstream media deliberately ignore everything that doesn’t fit their partisan political narrative? Let me know after you read my blog, and we’ll have a “beer summit,” OK?

Category: Barack Obama

‘Start This War They Keep Asking For’

Posted on | June 8, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Start This War They Keep Asking For’

What is the goal of the Black Lives Matter movement? To make it impossible to arrest and prosecute criminals? Because that would seem a logical inference from recent events in Minneapolis:

Burning, rioting, and looting broke out in Minneapolis on Friday night after deputies shot and killed a wanted felon who fired on them. Deputies assigned to the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force attempted to take the man wanted for being a felon in possession of a firearm into custody.
Police officials in Minnesota say the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force attempted to arrest 32-year-old Winston Boogie Smith on June 3 for a warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, the Associated Press reported. As sheriff’s office deputies assigned to the task force approached Smith’s vehicle, he reportedly refused to comply with orders and pulled a handgun. Officials confirmed Smith fired at least one shot from inside his car.
A statement from the Marshal’s Service said Smith was in a parked vehicle and “produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject.” Smith died at the scene from wounds from two deputies’ shots.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension reported that state investigators found a gun in Smith’s car along with a spent cartridge indicating Smith fired from inside his vehicle, the AP article states.
Following the shooting on Thursday, rioters marched in the streets, set fires, and began vandalizing and looting businesses, the AP reported. Police arrested nine people on charges following the night of violent activity.

Do we want convicted felons on the street carrying firearms? No, and so an arrest warrant for Smith was issued and the officers sent to execute this warrant knew that Smith was in possession a pistol — does the phrase “armed and dangerous” ring a bell here? When cops go to arrest someone known to be armed and dangerous, what do we expect will happen if the suspect fails to cooperate with his arrest? Oh, wait:

In the aftermath of the shooting, Smith’s social media activity came under scrutiny after we found posts on his Facebook profile in which he bragged about shooting a police officer if he was shot at and would not surrender “like the rest.”
“Officer please don’t shoot at me cuz ima [I’m gonna] shoot back I ain’t so sucker like the rest I ain’t going with my hand up” Smith wrote in a Facebook post in September 2019.
In other posts, shared days after the death of George Floyd as the city of Minneapolis erupted in riots, Smith wrote about burning down police stations and starting a “war” against law enforcement. “justice is an eye for eye u kill one of mine we need one of yours that’s justice!,” he wrote in one of the posts.
Smith was sentenced to 48 months in prison in October 2018 for aggravated robbery in the first degree but the judge stayed his sentence and let him out on parole.

“We got guns and bullet proof vest too or should be able to get em … why not just rush these f–ks and start this war they keep asking for!” he raged on Facebook.
“F–k justice anyway b—h justice is an eye for eye u kill one of mine we need one of yours that’s justice! Right or wrong f–k being right cuz they keep doing us wrong.
“I’m down with the burn everything government not touch sh-t else I don’t even need to loot I’ll buy my sh-t just kill them dirty ass cops off we tired of being scared at the red light!” he wrote.

Yeah, buddy, you got the war you were asking for.

They ought to pin a medal on the cop who shot you.

Category: Crime, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 06.07.21

Posted on | June 7, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.07.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

This is a good wisdom.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Newspapers Want A Government Bailout
EBL: The Left & Media Lied, People Died
Twitchy: “Is Biden In Charge Of Anything Right Now?”
Louder With Crowder: Hero Flight Attendant Prevents Hijacking, Hogties Suspect Like A Rodeo Calf
Vox Popoli: The Imaginary Mr. X, also, JDA Defeats Worldcon
Stoic Observations: Fractional Ethnicity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Lazy & Incurious
American Conservative: Pentagon Papers Failed To Prevent Perpetual Media Kowtowing
American Greatness: A Serious Country Would Jail Anthony Fauci, also, The Lethal Wages Of Trump Derangement Madness
American Power: President Biden Snubs 77th Anniversary Of D-Day Invasion
American Thinker: The Time Of Romney/Ryan Republicanism Is Over
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Loses Ground In Battle To Control The Internet, also, Peru To Decide Today Whether To Fall Into The communist Abyss
BattleSwarm: California Assault Weapons Ban Struck Down, also, Republican Elected Mayor Of McAllen
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, SpaceX Launches Commercial Radio Satellite Aboard Reused Falcon 9
Cafe Hayek: A Day In The Life Under Lingering COVID Derangement Syndrome, also, Unfathomable, Unseen Complexity
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, More Patrol Craft, Not Fewer – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: Human Error My A**, also, The Tapper Media Trap
Don Surber: Suddenly Democrats Hate Bipartisanship, also, I Don’t Want Their Apology
First Street Journal: A Sad Tale Shows Why Gun Control Laws Don’t Work
The Geller Report: Guatemala Protesters Tell Kamala “Trump Won”, also, High-Ranking Chicom Defector Working With DIA Has “Direct Knowledge” Of Red China’s Biowar Program, And It’s Very Bad
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Reverse Virtue Signaling, Meanwhile On Teh Twitterz, also, Well That Didn’t Take Long
Hollywood In Toto: Do We Owe Tom Green’s Freddy Got Fingered An Apology? also, The Wrap’s Film Critic Confab Cheers On Cancel Culture
The Lid: SCOTUS Rules 9-0 Against Green Cards For Illegals
Legal Insurrection: DOJ Claims It Recovered Millions In Bitcoin Paid To Colonial Pipeline Hackers, also, Dixie State University Still At War With Itself Over Changing School Name
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Last Crusade
Outkick: Alleged Sports Reporter Jemele Hill Calls Sen. Manchin A “White Supremacist, White Dude”, also, People On Social Media Not Happy Over Logan Paul/Floyd Meriweather Fight
Power Line: Why The Science Points To A Lab Leak, also, Whatever Happened To Umbrella Man?
Shark Tank: Anthony Sabatini Announces Challenge To Rep. Stephanie Murphy In FL-07
Shot In The Dark: Deferred
The Political Hat: Woke Mysticism, also, Selective Anarchy
This Ain’t Hell: Reimagining The Military Uniform, also, Two More Accounted For
Transterrestrial Musings: Violent Anti-White Racism, also, Dark Skies
Victory Girls: Manchin Says No To S.1 And The Left Flips Out
Volokh Conspiracy: “Where Are We, In 1953 Moscow?”
Weasel Zippers: Cartels In Total Control Of US/Mexico Border, also, “Every One Of These [Hamas] Rockets Was A War Crime” – Dem Rep Brad Sherman
The Federalist: Guatemala’s President Blames Biden For Border Crisis, also, It’s Clear Now – Anthony Fauci Isn’t A Fool, He’s A Villain
Mark Steyn: Tosca & Butterfly, also, Mike Leigh & Career Girls – Time Heals Most Wounds

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Rule 5 Sunday: Samsung Sam

Posted on | June 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Samsung Sam

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I seldom explain jokes, but Friday evening’s meme does seem to need one. Last month Brazilian studio Lightfarms came up with an unofficial virtual assistant for Samsung phones, and people went nuts over her. I have to say, just based on the visuals alone, Sam would be a big improvement over Bixby, which I can’t be bothered to use. That having been said, here’s Russian cosplayer Lilya0o in a “is this real or is this Memorex?” pic. If you want to see other pics of her cosplaying Sam and other characters, her Instagram is here.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.