The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’

Posted on | February 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Corporate PR Coochie-for-Hire Exits Praising CNN’s ‘Journalistic Integrity’

Totally stolen from Ace, this statement by adulteress Allison Gollust just boggles my mind at so many levels I don’t know where to start. Insofar as “journalistic integrity” is concerned, is Gollust completely unaware of why she and her boyfriend Jeff Zucker got shitcanned at CNN? Like, she somehow missed the fact that they were acting as propaganda operatives for disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo? Or what about the problem — which Gollust, inside her bubble, apparently doesn’t recognize — that CNN torched its credibility by becoming a televised psych ward for Trump Delusion Syndrome patients? Or the related problem that, in the post-Trump era, CNN has lost 90% of its audience?

One would have to have spent the past few years inside a hermetically sealed vault not to understand how the intertwining of Gullust, Zucker and the Cuomo brothers was a formula for corruption, utterly contradicting the “journalistic integrity” that Gollust attributes to CNN, because everybody — and I do mean everybody — raised eyebrows about this cozy political media arrangement. Even liberals, who totally shared the Trump Derangement Syndrome fever that infected CNN, were astonished by the way the network had Chris Cuomo interviewing his brother the governor. Leaving all that aside, however, exactly what does Allison Gollust know about “integrity,” journalistic or otherwise? She has never been anything but a P.R. flack, and her primary qualification for her position at CNN was her willingness to service the sexual demands of Jeff Zucker. It was, as they say, an “open secret” for years.

Ace points out that Gollust’s claim that Warner Media is trying “to retaliate against me and change the media narrative” should be viewed as a veiled threat of litigation, but considering that her main responsibility at CNN was being Zucker’s girlfriend — a corporate-paid mistress — how does she imagine she can make a wrongful termination claim? Like, if your job was to provide fellatio to Zucker, and Zucker gets fired? We must assume that the new president of CNN doesn’t expect to get the same service from Gollust that she was providing Zucker, so exactly why should CNN keep paying her? Self-awareness doesn’t seem to be Allison Gollust’s strong suit, however, or she would have resigned as soon as Zucker got the boot. Instead she foolishly tried to hang on, and then claims Warner Media is at fault for its “disastrous handling” of a situation for which she herself was largely responsible: “Exit, lying.”

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: CNN

In The Mailbox: 02.15.22

Posted on | February 16, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.15.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too wiped to post after eight hectic hours in the tax mines yesterday. Not sure if I’ll have time to post Friday, either, since it looks like I’m driving home to Tonopah right after work.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Much like Joe Biden

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Everything You Learned Watching Cop Shows Was Wrong, also, The 37th America’s Cup
EBL: Valentines Day With Angie Dickinson, also, P.J. O’Rourke & Ivan Reitman, RIP
Twitchy: Twitter Suspends Defiant Ls, also, “The Definitive Happy Warrior”
Louder With Crowder: Family Of Cinematographer Slain By Adam Baldwin Suing Him For Reckless Conduct, also, Five Most Soviet Things PM Zoolander Said While Declaring Insane “Emergencies Act”
Vox Popoli: Empire’s End, The Benefits Of Imposed Protectionism, and The Hate Is Real

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Russia! Russia! Russia! also, Pushing Rubber Podcast Update
American Conservative: “Go Home, America”, also, The Nazis Globalist Liberals Prefer To Ignore
American Greatness: The January 6 Pipe Bombs Look Like Another FBI Hoax, also, “I Was Proven Right About The Spying And I Will Be Proven Right About 2020!”
American Power: The World’s Workers Have Arisen! also, Sarah Palin’s Libel Claim Against NYT Rejected By Jury
American Thinker: The Silent Coup, also, We Are All Truckers Now
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Cultural Relativity News
Babalu Blog: A Cuban-American Valentine, also, Why Hispanics Reject Leftist Policies
BattleSwarm: Audiences Know CNN Is Lying To Them And Joe Rogan Isn’t, also, Clinton’s Crimes Are Worse Than We Thought
Behind The Black: The Lie That Was COVID, LockMart Cancels Merger With Aerojet, and FAA Delays Boca Chica Approval Again
Cafe Hayek: Tyranny Isn’t Excused By Good Intentions, also, In Respectful Disagreement With Alex Salter
CDR Salamander: The Untold Story Of The CIA Mission To Avenge 9/11, also, Summary Thoughts On The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy
Da Tech Guy: Five Things The Left Would Have Gained If They Didn’t Steal The Last Election, She’s A Nun All Right, and Malice Toward Malice
Don Surber: Justin Castreau’s Approval Hits 16%, NYC Locks Up Toothpaste Not Thieves, and Biden Won’t Get A War To Save His Presidency
First Street Journal: The Neo-Cons Beat The Drum For War, also, A Prayer Vigil For Officer John Pawlowski
Gates Of Vienna: The Muslim Brotherhood In Sweden Part 11, The Year Of The Jackpot, and Austria Having Second Thoughts About The Mandatory Jab
The Geller Report: Ottawa Police Chief Resigns, also, “Multiple Indictments”
Hogewash: Breitbart Unmasked, Rust In Pieces, Nothing To See Here, Move Along, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Marry Me Won’t Bring Back Rom-Coms, Is Russell Brand The New Joe Rogan?, and You Better Buckle Up For The Cursed
The Lid: LBJ Turned U.S./Israel Casual Friendship Into Strong Alliance, also, SD Senate Bill Supporting Gun Industry Up For Hearing
Legal Insurrection: Jon Stewart Defends Joe Rogan, GWU Student Government Demands Firing Of Two Professors, and CBC Ties The Word “Freedom” To “Far-Right” Groups
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Sunday Miscellany
Outkick: ESPN Allows Hosts To Appear On Joy Reid’s Show, CTU Leader Insists On Masking Kids – Attends Super Bowl Maskless, and Alabama Football Completes Its Staff
Power Line: Inside The Bizarre Hellworld Of Minneapolis – Andy Brehm Brings The News, Who’s Wagging Whose Dog?, and The Dirtiest Trick Gets Dirtier
Shark Tank: FL Rep Smith Calls “Putting Parents First” A Political Attack, also, Rubio Leads Effort To Allocate More National Guard Funds
Shot In The Dark: “Captain Obvious? Your Promotion To Admiral Came Through,” also, Putin A La Poutine
STUMP: Homicide Trends 1968-2020
The Political Hat: Flannel Is Now Racist, also, Public Education – Another Day, Another Assault 
This Ain’t Hell: Another Accounted For, You Call That An Insult? and Sub Steel Test Falsifier Sentenced
Transterrestrial Musings: Our Greatest Domestic Threat, News For The Elite, and Rockets Vs. Airplanes
Victory Girls: Super Bowl? More Like Hypocrisy Bowl, also, Palin Libel Case Tossed During Jury Deliberations
Volokh Conspiracy: Why Efforts To Throw Rep. Cawthorn Off The Ballot Are Likely Unconstitutional
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Claims Nobody Is Better At Strategic Thinking Than Biden, also, 30th Democrat Congressman Says She’s Not Running For Reelection 
The Federalist: Why Abraham Lincoln Still Towers Over His Critics, Biden’s DHS Announces It Will Investigate Thought Crimes, and Press Calls Trump Fascist For Opposing Violent Riots, Meanwhile Trudeau…
Mark Steyn: For The Duration – The More The Merrier, As Time Goes By, and “Freedom” Is Just Another Word For, Er, “White Supremacism”

Amazon Warehouse Deals




Category: Linkagery

Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt

Posted on | February 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Jewish Candidate for Louisville Mayor Survives BLM Assassination Attempt

Less than a week ago, writing about a fringe black “liberation” group, I warned that “there is no guarantee that the next radical gesture will end so harmlessly,” and an intended target literally dodged a bullet this week:

Police have arrested a suspect they say was responsible for the attempted murder of Louisville Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenburg.
Quintez Brown, 21, was taken into custody Monday. He has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. . . .
His arraignment happened Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. where he pleaded not guilty. . . .
Brown is a well-known activist and organized youth protests during the social justice movements of the summer of 2020. He often wrote opinion columns about race relations in the Courier-Journal.
He was also the subject of a missing person investigation last June. Brown had gone missing in late June 2021, leading to a citywide search. He was eventually found, and his family had asked for privacy while they focused on his mental, physical and spiritual health.
Brown recently announced that he was planning to run for Metro Council’s District 5 seat. . . .
Greenberg said he and his staff were at a campaign office for a meeting when he said a man walked into the office. Upon greeting the man, later identified as Brown, that’s when Greenberg said he allegedly pulled out a gun, pointed it at him and fired.
A staff member, he said, was able to close the door on Brown and the team was able to barricade themselves inside until police arrived.
Police said Brown was stopped about a half-mile from the Story Avenue campaign office where they allege he was carrying a drawstring bag, containing a 9mm gun and additional magazines. . . .
Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields didn’t have immediate answers but said the department would investigate any possible motive.
“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that, we don’t know if it’s tied to the candidates or is political or if we are dealing with someone with mental issues or is venomous,” she said. “We are looking at this from all angles.”

“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that” — yeah, if the suspect in the shooting of a Jewish politician had been a white Trump supporter, it would be 24/7 on CNN, but instead it’s just local news in Kentucky, because it was a Black Lives Matter activist.

The Daily Beast actually has a good article about Brown’s descent into murderous madness. As of 8 p.m. ET, Brown’s Twitter account was still online, and you could see him quoting various black radicals, including Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. In other words, Brown traveled down a radical path similar to Augustus Romain Jr. (Gazi Kodzo”) of the Black Hammer Organization. There is a profound irony that, four years ago, Brown took part in a gun-control march in Washington, D.C., and was interviewed on MSNBC:

Speaking with Joy Reid’s AM Joy show during the march, Brown, issuing his remarks towards then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he said “we are here we want, we want common sense gun reform. And if you’re not going to give us that, then we’re going to get everyone out here to vote and we’re going to vote you out of office. So if you want to keep your job, then you know give us what we — not what we want but what we need, what humans need.”
“We need a common sense government reform, get rid of assault rifles,” said Brown at the time.

Trying to murder Jews — is that “common sense gun reform”?

Oh, I almost forgot this bonus: During Tuesday’s court hearing, Brown’s attorney told the judge he believes there are some “serious mental issues at play here.” Repeat after me: Crazy People Are Dangerous.




 

Category: Crime, Kentucky, Racism

Rams Win the ‘White Supremacy’ Bowl

Posted on | February 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Rams Win the ‘White Supremacy’ Bowl

Super Bowl LVI will go down in history as one of the great triumphs of systemic racism, in which the Los Angeles Rams — with white head coach Sean McVay and white quarterback Matt Stafford — defeated the Cincinnati Bengals, with white coach Zac Taylor and white quarterback Joe Burrow. This is almost certainly part of the NFL’s white supremacist conspiracy, according to a lawsuit by former Miami Dolphins head coach and (victim of racism) Brian Flores.

Former New England Patriot defensive end Jason Bequette comments:

If we want an NFL that proportionally “looks like America,” as Joe Biden is so fond of saying, then 3 or 4 of the 32 head coaches, general managers, and team owners would be black, but 75 percent of the players would be white or Hispanic. It’s doubtful that Flores is advocating for two-thirds of black players to be fired and replaced with whites. Is there any reason, other than “discrimination,” why NFL rosters are still 100 percent male? Why is neither team in the upcoming Super Bowl starting a transgender female at left tackle?

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Bequette regards the Flores lawsuit as without merit, and a consequence of the NFL’s so-called “Rooney Rule.” Once the league decided to establish a de facto quota system for hiring coaches and front-office personnel, it was inevitable that someone would eventually claim the system wasn’t working and demand more. This is true in every situation where “diversity” becomes an organizational goal, because no matter how much is done to ensure “equity,” there will always be someone with a grievance, who feels they’ve been cheated somehow, and who blames racism for their misfortunes.

And, just by the way, I hate that it’s Brian Flores doing this. Flores, who spent more than a decade as an assistant with the Patriots, is actually a good coach, who turned around the Dolphins, producing back-to-back winning seasons (10-6 in 2020 and 9-7 this past season), which was the first time in 20 years that Miami had consecutive winning seasons. I hate to see a good coach ruin his reputation by filing a lawsuit like this, and I also hate it because the Flores firing in Miami involves an Alabama alumni, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. It has been reported that the Dolphins owners and management are committed to Tagovailoa as the future of their franchise, while Flores wasn’t a big Tua fan, to put it mildly. There were other problems in Miami — Flores, a defensive specialist, kept firing offensive coordinators — but the fact that my guy Tua is at the center of this controversy is personally painful to me as an Alabama fan. I want all Crimson Tide players to succeed in the NFL, because pro success helps recruiting, so the fact that Flores’ doubts about Tua’s ability led directly to this ugly lawsuit is bad for ’Bama.

Beyond that, however, can we talk about The Black Quarterback Issue?

Rush Limbaugh got fired from ESPN for raising this issue, so we all know we’re not supposed to talk about it, but the enforced silence — at least in official sports coverage — is making things worse, because astute football fans can see what’s happening with their own eyes, and yet nobody is allowed to talk about it on TV, which can give rise to racial paranoia.

To boil it down into a nutshell: Three decades ago, there were almost no black quarterbacks in the NFL. Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins was the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, in 1988, which was rightly celebrated as repudiating the belief that black players didn’t have the “intangibles” (whatever that means) to play the most demanding position in the game. Since then, however, only six black quarterbacks (Steve McNair, Donovan McNabb, Colin Kaepernick, Russell Wilson, Cam Newton and Patrick Mahomes) have made it to the Super Bowl, and only two of those (Wilson in 2014 and Mahomes in 2020) have won the Super Bowl. So, of the past 34 Super Bowls, white quarterbacks won 30 of them, which is interpreted as proof of either (a) white supremacy or (b) white supremacy. By which I mean, some people think white success (in football or anything else) proves that white people actually are superior (i.e., white supremacy) while other people think such disproportionate outcomes are evidence that the system is rigged against minorities (i.e., white supremacy). The fact that both of these competing and mutually exclusive theories can be called “white supremacy” should tell us something about the complexity of the problem, but the real problem is that it’s hurting football.

If you watched Sunday’s pregame show, you know that the NFL, in an apparent effort to defend itself against absurd accusations of racism, rather bent over backward to appease their accusers, and the halftime show likewise seemed to be a sort of minstrel show of “wokeness,” evidently based on the idea that black people don’t actually like football, but must also have a hiphop halftime program. Am I exaggerating this, or did other people get the same vibe? It’s impossible to say, because nobody in the media is allow to discuss these things at risk of being “cancelled,” which in turn means that the NFL never gets any honest feedback about its ostentatious “diversity” efforts.

But somebody has to tell them: You’re trying too hard.

Every mature and reasonably observant person understands this about race relations, i.e., that the best thing to do is to mind your own business, and avoid turning everything into a racial issue. Whatever your opinions about race may be, in your day-to-day interactions, it is best to carry on as if you don’t even notice such things. Especially if you’re a white person, you’re not really helping matters by engaging in performative wokeness, and that’s the real problem with the NFL’s approach.

Once the sports media became obsessed with The Black Quarterback Issue, it gave rise to a sort of competition among teams: “Oh, the Eagles have a black quarterback, so probably we need to draft one, too.” This had a trickle-down effect because, if NFL teams were making an extra effort to find black quarterbacks, this demand-side imbalance encouraged college coaches to feed the supply side of that market. And this in turn gave rise to implicit suspicions of racism for any team that didn’t have a black quarterback. Suppose, for example, that the University of North Carolina had a black starting quarterback, while their ACC rival Clemson had a white starting quarterback. If having a black quarterback is a proxy for “equity” (as some in the sports media seemed to believe), then wouldn’t Clemson be suspected of racism? And isn’t it likely that, in the recruiting process, this suspicion would work to Clemson’s disadvantage? Of course it would, and therefore college coaches became even more desperate to recruit black quarterbacks, with the result that talented white quarterbacks were often underrated.

Take the case of Joe Burrow, for example. Burrow comes from an exceptional family of athletes, his father having played for Nebraska and the Green Bay Packers before coaching for more than three decades. As a high school quarterback in Athens, Ohio, Burrow led his team to three straight playoff appearances, and was recruited by Ohio State University. You might think Burrow would have been set for an outstanding career at OSU, except for this one fact: The Buckeyes haven’t had a white quarterback since 2011. The starting QBs at OSU over the past decade were Braxton Miller (2011-2013), J.T. Barrett (2014-2017), Dwayne Haskins (2018), Justin Fields (2019-2020) and C.J. Stroud (2021) — 100% black. NO WHITE QUARTERBACKS, PERIOD — that’s the rule at Ohio State, apparently, and after two seasons as backup to Barrett, Joe Burrow figured out the rule, and transferred to LSU, where he immediately became the starting QB. In 2018, Burrow led the Tigers to a 10-3 record. In 2019, Burrow led LSU to an undefeated season and beat Clemson 42-25 for the national championship. Burrow threw for 463 yards and five touchdowns against Clemson, finishing the season with 5,671 yards passing. But he never started at Ohio State.

What about the quarterback the Buckeyes chose ahead of Burrow? Dwayne Haskins had a great year in 2018, setting all kinds of school records as the Buckeyes finished 13-1 and Haskins was named MVP of the Rose Bowl. Drafted in the first round by the Washington Redskins in 2019, Haskins played two seasons there before being released. Justin Fields also had an excellent career as Ohio State’s starting quarterback, compiling a 20-2 record and two Big Ten Championships, before being drafted by the Chicago Bears in 2021. The one thing neither Haskins nor Fields did at Ohio State was win a national championship, like Burrow did at LSU. And as for their NFL careers, neither of them has made it to a Super Bowl yet, as Burrow did with the previously hopeless Bengals.

Look, I’m not saying Joe Burrow’s success is proof of racial superiority, but what I am saying is that discriminating against white quarterbacks — which is what Ohio State is obviously doing — isn’t smart football.

The NFL’s obsession with racial “equity” in coaching positions is similarly stupid. The absurdity of the “Rooney Rule,” says Jason Bequette, “can be illustrated by simply applying it to NFL roster vacancies”:

Imagine if every NFL team were forced to invite a white cornerback into training camp every season. No NFL team has started a white cornerback since Jason Sehorn in 2002. A white cornerback who fulfilled a team’s obligation under a “Sehorn Rule” would feel insecure and teammates would feel resentful, even if the player was qualified for the position and seriously considered for the job.

Far be it from me to say that no white guy will ever again play cornerback in the NFL, but I’m certainly not going to endorse some kind of quota system in order to ensure that white players get their “fair share” of cornerback positions. Currently, about 60% of NFL players are black, 25% are white and 15% are “other.” As long as NFL rosters are determined by ability and performance, I do not care if white players are “underrepresented” in the league, nor do I think anyone else should care. What I suspect, however, is that many coaches may be guilty of stereotypical thinking in such a way that some white players are overlooked. Consider, for example, the case of Cooper Kupp.

He was the Super Bowl MVP, with eight catches for 92 yards and 2 TDs.

In four seasons at Eastern Washington University, Kupp caught 428 passes for 6,464 yards and 73 touchdowns. Those are certainly impressive stats but . . . a white wide receiver?

To quote Joe Biden, “C’mon, man.” Everybody knows only black players can be wide receivers in the NFL. And so Kupp was not drafted until the third round, the 69th player overall in the 2017 NFL draft.

Six other wide receivers were drafted ahead of Kupp that year: Corey Davis (Western Michigan, Tennessee Titans, 1st round, 5th overall), Mike Williams (Clemson, LA Chargers, 1st round, 7th overall), John Ross (Washington, Cincinnati Bengals, 1st round, 9th overall), Zay Jones, East Carolina, 2nd round, 37th overall), Curtis Samuel (Ohio State, Carolina Panthers, 2nd round, 40th overall), and JuJu Smith-Schuster (USC, Pittsburgh Steelers, 2nd round, 62nd overall). A lot of different factors can affect the career of a wide receiver, so it is perhaps unfair to say that receiving statistics alone are the measure of a player’s talent, but here are the numbers (not including playoffs) for these wide receivers, Cooper Kupp and the six others drafted ahead of him in 2017:

John Ross: 62 catches, 957 yards, 11 TDs
Zay Jones, 124 catches, 1,338 yards, 10 TDs
Curtis Samuel, 185 catches, 2,087 yards, 14 TDs
Corey Davis, 241 catches, 3,343 yards, 15 TDs
Mike Williams, 218 catches, 3,543 yards, 25 TDs
JuJu Smith-Schuster, 323 catches, 3,855 yards, 26 TDs
Cooper Kupp, 443 catches, 5,517 yards, 40 TDs

Kupp has nearly 1,700 yards more (and 14 more TDs) than his nearest rival among wide receivers in the 2017 NFL draft class, yet he wasn’t picked until the third round. Is it possible that Kupp was underrated because of the stereotype that wide receiver is a position for black players? And if the Rams got a bargain in the NFL draft because of such perceptions, is it possible that other teams could similarly benefit by taking a chance on white players at wide receiver (or running back, or other positions typically dominated by black players)?

It’s usually a mistake to generalize on the basis of a singular exceptional case, but say, did you ever hear of a guy named Julian Edelman? You remember him, the MVP of Super Bowl LIII? Seventh-round draft pick in 2009, 232nd overall, finished his career with 738 catches for 8,264 yards and 41 TDs, and three Super Bowl rings. Not bad for a white guy who’s only 5-foot-10 and didn’t even play wide receiver in college.

Again, this doesn’t prove anything except that the NFL needs to stop focusing on racial “equity” and instead focus on football.

Otherwise, they’re gonna get woke and go broke.




 

Category: Football, Racism

Late Night With Rule 5 Apologies

Posted on | February 14, 2022 | Comments Off on Late Night With Rule 5 Apologies

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Sorry, but I’m absolutely whipped. I’ll double up on the links next Sunday, I promise. In the meantime, have a death goddess.
Silicon Valley delenda est.


Shishou chilling at the office.


Amazon Warehouse Deals

Visit Amazon’s Intimate Apparel Shop
Shop Sex & Sensuality Gifts




Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Whipping Post

Posted on | February 14, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Whipping Post

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, the Senators had a .400 week, splitting a two-game series against the San Francisco Seals before dropping two of three games against Da Tech Guy’s Seattle Pilots, who had recently acquired “Limp” Dick Allen partially out of frustration at our pitchers intentionally walking Pete Rose seven times in our first series. Allen was a non-factor in our three games; he didn’t even hit for extra bases, but they didn’t need him; all three games were close, but not close enough. To round off the weekend, we traded the worthless Dave Boswell to Minnesota for Jim Kaat, which will be a definite upgrade to our rotation since Boswell has been a terrible pitcher for us; future Hall of Famer Kaat could hardly be worse and has better stats in 1970 than Boswell anyway.

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

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!
EBL 

Have You Heard of ‘The CROWN Act’?
The Political Hat
EBL

‘The Dismantling of Race-Conscious Admissions Would Deal Another Blow to Equity in Science’
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Burning For You
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.07.22
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Man Killed in Philadelphia Carjacking
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 02.08.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Is the Irony Obvious Enough?
Living In Anglo-America
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 02.09.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

The Destructive Cult of Racial ‘Liberation’
EBL

President Crack-Pipe’s Very Bad Week
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.10.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Aspiring Rapper Update: Bloods Gangster Arrested for Shooting Atlanta Cop 6 Times
357 Magnum
EBL

How to Die in Philadelphia
EBL

Ukraine Freakout: Is This for Real?

In The Mailbox: 02.11.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending February 11:

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  357 Magnum & Proof Positive (tied) (9)
  3.  A View From The Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

Amazon Warehouse Deals




Category: Linkagery

Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?

Posted on | February 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?

Our Commander-in-Chief never served in the military. He was never the sharpest tool in the shed, and his cognitive capacity has visibly declined in recent years. His chief foreign-policy accomplishment is surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban, and he’s less popular than Jimmy Carter.

So, yeah, I’m sure Vladmir Putin is just scared to death:

President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday that an invasion of Ukraine would result in “swift and severe costs for Russia” during a high-stakes hourlong phone call that failed to ease rising tensions.
A senior Biden administration official described the call as “professional” but said the dialogue resulted in “no fundamental change in the dynamics that have been unfolding now for several weeks.”
The call, which lasted a little over an hour, ended shortly after noon ET. It came as the White House says a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, perhaps before the conclusion of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which end Feb. 20.
Biden told Putin that “if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia,” according to the White House.
“President Biden reiterated that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine would produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing,” the White House said, adding that Biden was also clear the U.S., while committed to diplomacy, is “equally prepared for other scenarios.”
The talks came after the State Department late Friday directed most staff who remain in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave Ukraine immediately. The Pentagon also ordered the withdrawal of 160 National Guard troops from Ukraine.
Biden is in Camp David in Maryland for the weekend.
During a phone call earlier Saturday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, that if Russia invades Ukraine, it would result in a “resolute, massive, and united Transatlantic response.”
This image provided by The White House via Twitter shows President Joe Biden at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. Biden on Saturday again called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if Russia invades, according to the White House.
Putin also spoke on Saturday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who has tried to serve as a chief European interlocutor in the crisis.
Macron told Putin that “sincere dialogue” is not compatible with military escalation, during a phone call that lasted more than an hour, according to French media.
Putin, meanwhile, suggested the United States was engaging in “provocative speculations” about a possible Russian investigation of Ukraine, according to a statement from the Kremlin on the Russian leader’s conversation with Macron. Putin also raised concerns about the “massive supplies of modern weaponry” the West is sending to Ukraine and suggested that would create conditions for a Ukrainian military assault in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine where Russian-backed separatists have been operating.

If there’s anyone who scares Putin less than Joe Biden, it’s Emmanuel Macron. Even if France had the will to fight — which, of course, it doesn’t — it lacks the ability. The French army is a complete joke. France could not deploy so much as one infantry battalion to defend Urkraine, let alone armored units, and Putin knows this as well as Macron.

This, even more than the brain-addled ineptitude of Biden, is America’s basic strategic problem: Our so-called “allies” are useless. While the British still have some military capability, the rest of Western Europe is a collection of weak sisters, from a military standpoint. Even if we had a competent Commander-in-Chief (which we don’t), our European “allies” are unable to do anything that might cause Putin to pause before sending his troops marching toward Kiev. And considering that Biden has demonstrated an unwillingness to defend U.S. strategic interests in Afghanistan (or anywhere else, for that matter), would Putin be wrong to guess that this talk of “swift and severe costs” is just a lot of bluster?

Of course, I don’t actually believe a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “imminent.” As previously explained, I don’t think Russia would launch an invasion in mid-February, when it makes more sense to wait until May. Were I asked to wager on this proposition, I’d bet that what we’re watching now is just a lot of “wag the dog” propaganda from the Biden administration, seeking to distract voters from the unmitigated disaster of Biden’s domestic policy: Free crackpipes!




 

Category: Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine

Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley

Posted on | February 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley

Readers should remember the relevant definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

There was something truly weird about what happened this week:

New York’s Mayor, Eric Adams, paid an emotional tribute to the latest victim of the city’s gun violence, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper, Jayquan McKenley.
McKenley who went by the name Chii Wvttz, was shot dead outside a recording studio in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on Sunday.
Adams struggled to hold back tears as he blamed the shooting on a ‘broken system that ‘continually fails black and brown New Yorkers.’
The mayor detailed [Jayquan’s] life explaining how the city ‘betrayed’ him including being unable to secure stable housing from officials failing to intervene after he missed 250 days of high school.
‘I didn’t know Jayquan, but his death hit me hard because the more I found out about Jayquan’s story, the more I saw how many times he had been failed by a system that is supposed to help boys like him,’ Adams said.
McKenley grew up in the South Bronx, a neighborhood with high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Adams explained that by the time he was five, Jayquan’s family was living in a homeless shelter.
Adams told how McKenley was placed in a program for children with severe cognitive disabilities. After then moving into a mainstream program just a couple of years later, he was behind.
He was already at risk and though his mom begged for help, McKenley never got any, Adams said.
McKenley went to five different high schools and as a teenager missed hundreds of days of school.
‘Now, right there, our city should have done more,’ Adams said. ‘Over the next four years, Jayquan’s family lived in seven different shelters without stability or security.
‘To Jayquan’s mother and father, I want to say I’m sorry,’ Adams said with tears in his eyes. He had previously spoken with Jayquans’ grieving parents earlier in the week.
‘The story of Jayquan breaks my heart,’ Adams said. ‘His story tests my spirit, and we must do better for young people like him.
‘I’m sorry we betrayed him and so many others like him, but you have my word as your mayor that I will be looking out for the thousands of other Jayquans in our city because I was once a Jayquan, too.
‘I knew what it was like to worry about losing your apartment, your stability, what it’s like to live with a learning disorder, what it’s like to get on the wrong side of the law,’ he said. ‘I’ve been on that path of pain, and I know there’s a way out,’ Adams said.
‘He was a Drill rapper, part of a scene which involves using music as a challenge for social media posts — posts that bled out into violent real-world confrontations,’ he said. ‘It was right there, for all to see. Our city should have done more.’
Drill is a subgenre of rap which is dominated by themes of death and violence.
He had been arrested several times since 2017 including once for attempted murder, last year.
‘We had all the signs you can ever have that a young man’s life was in crisis, and with social media acting as an accelerant, that crisis was escalated,’ Adam’s said noting that red flags were ignored.
‘He was not just a victim now, but a perpetrator. But he was young, there was still time for him to turn the path of violence and move away from that,’ Adams said. ‘Our system and justice system should have done more, more to help him, rehabilitate him.’

He was a hoodlum, a gang-banger. Live by the gun, die by the gun.

All this woe-is-me stuff about how the “system failed him” — who failed? Isn’t this rhetoric just a way to exonerate Jayquan for his own deadly choices, by saying “society” in general was somehow at fault? Jayquan “had been arrested several times,” so why wasn’t he in jail or prison? Isn’t this because of the turn-’em-loose liberal bail policies in New York?

Leave enough gang-bangers out on the streets, don’t be surprised when they shoot each other. Hoodlums have a tendency to become dead hoodlums that way, and if the “system should have done more,” well, more what? More time behind bars for young hoodlums?

The death of “Chii Wvttz” is perhaps symbolic of what’s wrong with New York City, but probably not in the way the mayor imagines.

PREVIOUSLY:




 

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, New York
« go back — keep looking »