In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Afternoon Edition)

I’m giving serious thought to having a special post (or maybe just additional section for this post) in honor of “Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day”. If you have a post on the topic, send me the link and I’ll hook you up.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Neil Young gets an answer from Spotify.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1609
357 Magnum: New Music Sucks – That Seems To Be The Consensus
EBL: Civilisation – Romance & Reality
Twitchy: Virginia Rep Nick Freitas Torches Democrats Whose Kneejerk Reaction To Disagreement Is To Cry “Racist” Or “Sexist”
Louder With Crowder: Kid Rock Unleashes New Anti-Fauci Anti-Biden Banger “We The People” With “Let’s Go Brandon” Chorus
Vox Popoli: Diversifying Ukraine, also, And Here…We…Go

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Gamma Strike, also, We’re Not For Sale
American Conservative: Our Sinking Ship In Europe, also, Joe Biden’s Low-Energy Blunder
American Greatness: Donald Trump & The Future Of MAGA, also, Gov. Youngkin (R-Va.) Opens Tip Line For Parents To Report Teachers Teaching Critical Race Theory
American Power: Media Got Its NPC Update – Biden Wasn’t Snapping At Doocy
American Thinker: I Regret Getting The COVID Vaccine
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Peso In Free Fall Against US$ While Inflation In Cuba Hits 300-500%, also, The History Of Spanish-Language Radio In Miami & The Democrats’ Attempt To Shut It Down
Baldilocks: Fewer Bugs, More Features
BattleSwarm: Is The Bloom Off The Bush?
Behind The Black: Pushback – Class Action Suit Against NY’s Racially Discriminatory COVID Policy, Today’s Blacklisted American, and Planetary Scientists Fight Back – “Pluto Is A Planet!”
Cafe Hayek: What Of The Photo Of The Space-Helmeted Woman? also, Bill Walton Talks With George Will & Some Other Guests
CDR Salamander: What Can Get A Vice-Admiral Fired? also, 28-Year Crisis In The Making
Da Tech Guy: P-5 Days And Counting – Conditional Blogging Note, also, No Heart For You!
Don Surber: Government Of The Government, For The Government, By The Government, also, A Mass Shooting Every Day This Year So Far
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch Is Horrified That Some Democrats Actually Want To Fight Crime
Gates Of Vienna: The Grounds For Nuremberg II, “We Are All Hostages To The State”, and Serious Threat To National Security
The Geller Report: Canadian Truckers Revolt Against Jab Mandate, Biden’s Mass Release Of Single Adult Male Illegals Across The U.S., and Administration Withdraws OSHA Jab Requirement After SCOTUS Defeat
Hogewash: BREAKING – Biden Administration To Obey The Law, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, and Eta Carinae
Hollywood In Toto: Meet The Artists Against Free Speech, also, Jimmy Kimmel Fangirls Over “Narcissist” Fauci (Again)
The Lid: Fight America’s Century-Long Slide Toward Socialism
Legal Insurrection: “There Are Only Nine Meals Between Mankind & Anarchy”, Intersectionality On College Campuses Is Making America’s Political Divide Worse, and AG Jason Miyares (R-Va.) Continues Cleaning House, Fires University Lawyer Serving As J6 Investigator
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosus – Chapter 18, also, Run For The Hills – Heee’s Back!
Outkick: MMA Fighter Quits Her Stripper Job Weeks Before Winning Biggest Fight Of Her Career At UFC 270, David Ortiz Elected To Cooperstown – Bonds & Clemens Strike Out, and ESPN’s Mark Jones Likes Tweets Connecting Aaron Rodgers To QAnon & Trump After Packers’ Loss
Power Line: Hall of Fame Excludes Curt Schilling Because Of His Politics, Vaccine Risk? What Vaccine Risk? and Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
Shark Tank: Annette Taddeo Fights DeSantis’ Redistricting
Shot In The Dark: I Wanna See Some History, Science Evolves, and “Common Sense”
The Political Hat: California Agrees Not To Teach Students To Worship Aztec Gods After Lawsuit
This Ain’t Hell: Blast From The Past – Jarrett Gimbl, DOJ Says Guardsmen On State Orders Can Unionize, and It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Transterrestrial Musings: Chrome, Masks In School, and Biden’s SCOTUS Pick
Victory Girls: Nancy Pelosi Will Run Again To Save Us From Stuff & Things, also, Superman Going From Super Woke To Super Broke
Volokh Conspiracy: NBC News Reports Justice Breyer Will Retire
Weasel Zippers: Florida Man Does Something Not Meth-Related For Once, Biden Polling Hits New Record Low, and White House Unleashes Hashtags Against Putin
The Federalist: Mitt Romney To Fundraise For Liz Cheney At Vax-Mandated Event, Capitol Police Are Spying On Congressmen & The Constituents They Meet, and Nearly Half Of Democrats Support Putting Unvaxxed Americans In Camps
Mark Steyn: Public Enemy Number Ten, Making A Wasteland In The Name Of Compassion, and Vlad, Dick, & Trans

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to 24-year-old Zachary Lucas Olivar of Snellville, Georgia, who (a) has a “history of mental illness,” and (b) shot a sheriff’s deputy in Jones County. Before we go any further with this story, permit to ask this question: Why is it that we never hear about the mental health of such people until after they shoot a cop? Or get shot by the cops, as the case may be. In Philadelphia, for example, they had a full-scale race riot in October 2020 after Walter Wallace Jr., who had “mental health problems,” and was brandishing a large butcher knife when he charged a police officer and got shot. Wallace’s “mental health problems” weren’t front-page news until after he got shot (and everybody started looting because “social justice”). You might think there’d be some kind of early-warning system in place, so that all the locals would know who the crazy people were, and then when they got shot by cops, everybody would be like, “Oh, it was that one. Had to happen sooner or later.”

Olivar’s family had been dealing with his craziness for weeks in Snellville, which is a suburb of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. What is not explained in any of the news articles I’ve read is why Olivar was in rural Jones County, about 70 miles south of Snellville, down near Macon. Perhaps he was a rhythm-and-blues fan, hoping to visit the Otis Redding “Big O” Ranch just south of Round Oak. Olivar was in that vicinity, on State Route 11 between Round Oak and Wayside, when he was spotted driving erratically by Deputy John Kile:

Olivar puts his hands out of the driver’s side window, as if surrendering. However, he refuses repeated requests to exit the car.
“This is my home, sir. This is my home,” Olivar says repeatedly.
It’s around the 4-minute mark that something appears in Olivar’s hand, prompting the deputy to ask: “What you got?”
Seconds later, a gun wrapped in a towel is thrust out the window and a flash point is seen.
Kile grunts from the impact of a bullet, but doesn’t fall. Instead, the camera shows his feet running to his patrol car, as he screams “Shots fired, shots fired” into his radio.
Video recorded from the perspective of the patrol car shows Kile was standing just a few feet from the gun, and he is seen grabbing his chest as he runs back to his vehicle.
The video concludes with Olivar captured six minutes later, after his vehicle is forced off the road. Kile was among the pursuing officers, despite his injuries, officials said.
Olivar, who lives in Snellville, is being held without bond at the Jones County Sheriff’s Office “facing aggravated assault charges,” officials said.
Jones County Sheriff R.N. “Butch” Reece says investigators have learned Olivar has a “history of mental illness,” which is why he decided to release the video.
“We have received reports that he has been having issues for the past week, with several attempts made by his family to get him help,” Reece wrote on Facebook.
“Families are struggling to get help for loved ones with mental health issues; however, it seems all too often that these individuals fall through the cracks. Unfortunately it sometimes takes an incident like this one to show how important accessibility to mental health care really is. Our jails are not designed to be mental health treatment facilities.”
Reece concluded his post by saying he hopes the incident helps bring “a much needed change in the mental health system” with the help of state legislative action.

Before I post the video, perhaps I should warn you that Deputy Kile is apparently a fan of country music classics, and was actually listening to “Wildwood Flower” on his radio when he blue-lighted Olivar:

Deputy Kile was wearing a bulletproof vest, which saved his life, and Sheriff Reece praised the restraint shown by his deputies in arresting Olivar because, let’s face, he was this close to being a “suicide by cop.”

As far as I’m concerned, you shoot a cop, you should die in a hail of gunfire, and I don’t want to hear about your “mental health problems.” There’s a big difference between regular crazy and shoot-a-cop crazy.

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 26, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.26.22 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Neil Young says what?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Trust The Science? There’s Too Much Fraud
EBL: Civilization: The Great Thaw
Twitchy: Target Toothbrush Guy David Leavitt Wants To Know Why It’s Easier To Buy A Gun Than Vote
Louder With Crowder: Jordan Peterson Tells Neil Young Where To Stick His Open Letter About Joe Rogan
Vox Popoli: Two Cities At War, also, Ivermectin Vs. The Jab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Science Vs. God, also, Do Doctors Pray?
American Conservative: Drone Swarms In Ethiopia
American Greatness: Journalists Need To Learn How To Lay Bricks, also, Virginia Shuts Down Plans For Race-Based Math Curriculum
American Power: For Putin, It’s Not Just About Ukraine, also, Bodies Stacking Up As Progressive Pols Blame Everything But Themselves
American Thinker: Never Forgive Or Forget The Enablers Of The Destructive COVID Panic
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily They Call It Science News
Babalu Blog: Russia & Cuba Begin Talks On “Strategic Partnership”, also, After Over 200 Protesters Disappeared, UN Wants An Accounting From Cuba
Baldilocks: The Miseducation Of The American Christian Negro
BattleSwarm: The Time Of The Turning? also, Texas AG Paxton Sues Google (Again)
Behind The Black: NM Legislators Propose Tax On Virgin Galactic Tourist Flights, Strong Opposition To Proposed New Regulation By Federal Safety Board, and Axiom Awards Contract For Building Houston Space Station Factory
Cafe Hayek: Errant Assessments Of “Income Inequality”, also, Can’t Be Too Safe From The COVID Monster
CDR Salamander: The Indispensable Nation – A Return Of Forces To Europe
Da Tech Guy: Five Quick Russia Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Cops Are Taking A Hike
Don Surber: Nice Is Just A Town In France, also, Democrats Dump BLM
First Street Journal: The Incomparable Genius Of Larry Krasner! also, “I Can’t See How Anyone Would Feel Good About This”
Gates Of Vienna: Spain Ends COVID Restrictions Because Almost Everyone’s Vaxxed, The Muslim Brotherhood In Sweden, Part 10, and No Green Pass!
The Geller Report: NY State Supremes Strike Down Governor’s Mask Mandate, also, “Americans Are Safer In Kyiv Than In LA”
Hogewash: Not Found On Spotify, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, and A Galaxy On Edge
Hollywood In Toto: Russell Brand Calls Out Australia’s Insane COVID Police State, also, The Time I Almost Worked With Meat Loaf
The Lid: General Eisenhower Guaranteed The World Would Never Forget
Legal Insurrection: UT Austin Students Fret Over Defunded Police Not Monitoring Sex Offenders, CUNY Profs Sue – Claim Union Is “Anti-Semitic & Anti-Israel”, and Washington U In St. Louis Holding Event On “Professionalism As A Racist Construct”
Michelle Malkin: #FreeMartyG – Exposing America’s Secret Prisons
Nebraska Energy Observer: In The Whirlpool Of Chaos
Outkick: James Harden Reportedly Wants Out Of Brooklyn, Rice Swim Coach Speaks Out Against Trans Lia Thomas Situation, and Ronda Rousey Expected Back In WWE
Power Line: Woke Ballet At Princeton, Part 1, Planes Trains & Automobiles For Thee, and The Media Narrative On Crime & Policing Is Changing
Shark Tank: “We Are The Rock Of Freedom In The United States”
Shot In The Dark: The Entropic Life, also, Imitation
The Political Hat: The Metastasizing Cancer That Is Critical Social Justice
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesdays With The Libs Of TikTok, Tuesday FGS, and New Mexico’s Governor Militarizes Schools
Transterrestrial Musings: School Choice, A Large-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine, and Our Democracy Oligarchy
Victory Girls: Biden Limits Use Of Monoclonal Antibodies, also, Woman In CDC Monkey Crash Falls Ill – We’ve Seen This Movie
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Disability Law May Require Schools To Mandate Masks
Weasel Zippers: State Dept Spox – “We Do Not Have A Count” Of Americans In Ukraine, also, Bad Orange Woman Admits Defunding Police Is Partially Responsible For Soaring Crime Rate
The Federalist: CNN Outdoes Itself With Cringe Propaganda Segment On “Suburban Women” Who Don’t Mind School Closures, Finnish Government Puts Christianity On Trial, and G4 Host Complains Gamers Don’t Like Her Because She’s Not As “Bangable” As Olivia Munn
Mark Steyn: “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?”, Steyn Live Every Weeknight, and A Battle For The Soul

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‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism

Posted on | January 25, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ and the Censorship of COVID-19 Criticism

In December, Dr. Robert W. Malone was banned from Twitter: “The account referenced (@RWMaloneMD) was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy.” Using the vague concept of “misinformation” to justify silencing critics of COVID-19 policy is part of a totalitarian project that Malone described on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. And guess what happened next?

A group of 270 scientists and doctors are pressuring Spotify to crack down on content from Joe Rogan, the most popular podcaster in the U.S. One of the group’s complaints? His interview with doctor and scientist, Dr. Robert Malone.
Rogan isn’t merely the most popular podcaster in the country — he is, by some metrics, the most popular figure across the entire media.
It was recently reported that Rogan gets an average of 11 million views per podcast episode. The podcast’s closest competitor is Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, which gets an average of 3.21 million views.
Like Rogan, Tucker Carlson is also frequently the target of censorship efforts, but these have not dented his dominating position in cable news.
The group of experts who wrote to Spotify asking them to censor their most valuable personality objected to Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone, a doctor and scientist who conducted some of the earliest research on mRNA technology, which is used in Pfizer and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines.
Dr. Malone, who objects to the use of mRNA in COVID-19 vaccines, was permanently blacklisted from Twitter.
Malone’s interview with Rogan, which was released just a few days after his ban from Twitter, was one of the podcaster’s more viral episodes.
The doctor’s contention that western societies are suffering from “mass formation psychosis,” a kind of collective hysteria brought about by shared feelings of fear and manipulation from outside authorities, proved particularly viral, with clips of Malone’s discussion of the concept viewed millions of times on social media.

It should be obvious, at this stage, that vaccines have failed to “shut down the virus,” as Joe Biden promised during the 2020 presidential campaign. If the vaccines are not effective against variants of the COVID-19 virus, what is the motive for the administration’s continued efforts to make vaccination mandatory? Good luck getting straight answers to that question. My cynical suspicion is that the attempt to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory is just a payoff for the gigantic pharmaceutical companies that are manufacturing the vaccine.

What the censors obviously fear about Dr. Malone is not “misinformation” (because anyone can look at the number of so-called “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated patients and see the problem with these vaccines), but rather that his discussion of “mass formation psychosis” is giving people a clue about how powerful institutions have been manipulating public opinion. Those engaged in that manipulation — including the executives at Twitter — don’t want the public to become aware of the propaganda techniques being used by the elites to promote their preferred narratives. And this is why this Thursday is “Everybody Blog About Mass Formation Psychosis Day.”

Simply put: They can’t de-platform everybody.

Category: Media Bias, Science

In The Mailbox: 01.24.22

Posted on | January 25, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.24.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

A friendly reminder.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Happy Belated Birthday To John Moses Browning
EBL: Civilization – The Skin Of Our Teeth, also, Joe Biden’s Economy – How Are The Markets Doing?
Twitchy: “CNN Has Received The Talking Points”, also, Neil Young Tells Spotify To Choose – Neil Or Joe Rogan
Louder With Crowder: Whoopi Goldberg Lashes Out At Bill Maher for Mask Jokes, Defends Living In Fear
Vox Popoli: Stay Out Of The Skies, Only Fools Trust Science, and Bumbling Toward War
Stoic Observations: Fingers & Toes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ripples Of Heroism, also, We Reject Their Science
American Conservative: The Confucian Model
American Greatness: Wokeism – A Cruel & Dangerous Cult, also, The Coming Dethronement Of Joe Biden
American Power: The Case For Ukraine, also, The Case Against Ukraine
American Thinker: Lockdowns, Masks, & Vaccines Have all Been Complete Failures, But That’s Not The Real Problem
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Biden Refuses To Confront Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship, also, Disguising Pigs In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: The Babylon Bee Interviews Elon Musk, also, “For The Greater Good”
Behind The Black: Astra Completes First Static Fire Dress Rehearsal, Another Study Says No Water Under Mars’ South Pole, and Today’s Blacklisted Americans
Cafe Hayek: A Gruesome Anniversary, also, The Irresponsibility Of Intellectuals
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Big Navy Vs. Recon & Strike-Capable Drones – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: No Dough For You!, Five Quick Thoughts Under The Fedora, and Report From Louisiana – A Book Roundup
Don Surber: Reporter Whines Republican Won’t Talk To Him, Clarence Thomas Set To Kill Affirmative Action, and They Want Our Distrust
First Street Journal: The Wealthy Love Them Some Fossil Fuels! also, To Our Credentialed Media, Truth Is Racist
Gates Of Vienna: Aftermath In Afghanistan, Three More Cultural Enrichment Tales From Germany, and ISIS Recruiter Deported From Sweden
The Geller Report: DoD Vax Whistleblowers Report 500% Increase In Miscarriages, 300% Increase In Cancer, 1000% Increase In Neurological Damage
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Stuff We Don’t Know, and Ring Shepherds
Hollywood In Toto: J6 Is Hollywood’s Attempt To Stop Trump 2.0, also, Fargo Part 2 – Franchise Offers Something Tarantino Never Could
The Lid: Staggering Majority Says U.S. Headed In Wrong Direction
Legal Insurrection: Syracuse Student From Cuba Works To “Dismantle The Socialist Deception”, Politifact Rushes To Joe Biden’s Aid After “Bull Connor” Smear Backfires, and Mind-Numbed Virtue Signaling
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations – The Nick Edition, also, Third Sunday After The Epiphany
Outkick: Gritty Performances Lead To Vols Revenge Against LSU, 49ers Edge Packers 13-10, Ending Rodgers MVP Campaign, and Bengals KO Titans For First AFC Championship Since 1988
Power Line: Harvard’s Discrimination Against Asian-Americans In A Nutshell, Biden Has A Moment Of Lucidity, and Notes On The Real Economy
Shark Tank: Economic Boom In Key West Despite Lack Of Cruise Ships
Shot In The Dark: #Resist, Birthday Wishes, and Maybe He’ll Give Up Umbrella Man!
STUMP: Top Causes Of Death By Age Group, 2020 – Death Rates
The Political Hat: Canada Outlaws Telling Someone They Might Not Be Queer
This Ain’t Hell: Man Sentenced For Stealing Veteran & Social Security Benefits, Derek Hamm – The Rest of The Story, and Bonhomme Richard Arson Suspect Promotes Himself For His Article 32
Transterrestrial Musings: Gavin Newsom, Giving Up On Canada, and No, NTSB
Victory Girls: Are You Listening, Mr. Bragg? Do You Care? also, State Department Tells American Citizens To Leave Ukraine
Volokh Conspiracy: Trigger Warning For 1984 At University Of Northampton
Weasel Zippers: NBC’s Chuck Todd Says Biden “No Longer Viewed As Competent & Effective”, also, Massive Group Of 400 Illegals Seen Crossing Texas Border
The Federalist: Some Big Cities Regaining Their Senses On Law & Order, Failing At Home, Biden Prepares To Wag The Dog, and After Brutalizing Trump For Doubting Elections, Biden & Psaki Tell Americans To Doubt Elections
Mark Steyn: What Becomes A Legend Most? Finding Buffalo Bill, also, Conspiracy Or Groupthink?

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Jimmy Baseball’s Third Ex-Wife

Posted on | January 24, 2022 | Comments Off on Jimmy Baseball’s Third Ex-Wife

Jim Edmonds spent 18 seasons in the major leagues, won four Golden Glove awards, made the All-Star roster four times and helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series championship in 2006. Edmonds, known to fans as “Jimmy Baseball,” was already twice divorced and the father of four children and had been out of the game for four years when, in 2014 at the age of 43, he made the mistake of marrying 29-year-old Meghan King. Despite her comparative youth, she already had a track record of marital failure, having divorced her first husband in 2011.

When a middle-aged millionaire marries a 20-something blonde, a bad outcome is nearly guaranteed, but a year after the Edmonds-King nuptials, Meghan joined the cast of Real Housewives of Orange County, and I must ask: Has any marriage ever survived the “Real Housewives” treatment? Of course, I’ve never watched any of those stupid shows, which air on the gay cable channel Bravo. Oh, c’mon, everybody knows Bravo is a gay channel, right? And the whole point of “Real Housewives” seems to be depicting heterosexual marriage as a farce whereby ditzy women are indulged by their wealthy clueless husbands. The indulgent cluelessness of the husbands is more or less the punchline of the joke, and I am unable to comprehend why any man would put up with this.

Perhaps someone should give Jim Edmonds a copy of Rollo Tomassi’s The Rational Male. Given what Edmonds accomplished in his baseball career — a career .284 batting average, with nearly 400 home runs and almost 1,200 RBIs — one might think he would be sufficiently concerned for his reputation that he would refuse to let his young bride involve him in this “Real Housewives” series, which is not only a near-guaranteed path to divorce, but which is also antithetical to the personal dignity of the cast members. Everyone involved in “Real Housewives” is more or less a clown, parading their expensive follies for the entertainment of a cable-TV audience. Might as well date a Kardashian.

The Wikipedia synopsis of the Edmonds-King marriage:

Edmonds married Meghan O’Toole King on October 24, 2014. … Meghan joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County in 2015. Edmonds himself also appears on the show. On Thanksgiving Day 2016, they had a daughter. On November 27, 2017, it was announced that the couple were expecting twins boys together due June 2018. The twin boys were born on June 5, 2018. On October 25, 2019, Edmonds filed for divorce from Meghan, the day after their fifth wedding anniversary.

Details from a contemporary news account:

After attempting to reconcile following a very public cheating scandal, Meghan King Edmonds, 35, and Jim Edmonds, 49, are calling it quits.
Jim Edmonds, a former MLB star, officially filed paperwork to end the marriage Friday, Us Weekly reports. The filing came one day after their fifth wedding anniversary following a blow-up fight with Meghan.
“Meghan and Jim have been fighting,” a source told the publication. “The latest fight began when he went to a recent hockey game and she began interrogating him about who he went with.”
She reportedly also accused the former St. Louis Cardinals player of “having an affair” with their nanny.
Meghan’s distrust likely stems from Jim admittedly sending lewd text messages and photos to a woman while the reality star was pregnant.

Far be it from me to defend a philanderer, if indeed these accusations were true, but am I the only one who sees how the intrusion of a TV reality-show gig played a role in this disaster? Jim Edmonds is a Somebody, famous for his own accomplishments, whereas Megan — what had she ever accomplished, except marrying Jim Edmonds? Parlaying that connection into a “career” (if three seasons on “Real Housewives” can be considered a career) allowed her to become a Somebody, but in an entirely parasitical way. And now, having married again (and divorced again) she’s trying to extend her 15 minutes of fame:

Meghan King is taking the ultimate walk down memory lane.
The former reality star, 37, announced on Monday that she will be recapping her old episodes of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” on her recently launched YouTube channel — and Page Six has an exclusive first look.
In our clip, King reflects on her marriage to ex-husband Jim Edmonds, calling it “embarrassing.”
During a scene that aired in the Season 10 premiere, the retired baseball player appeared to ignore his then-wife as she tried to engage in a conversation.
“So rude. So embarrassing,” King says in her YouTube series, pressing her hand to her forehead.
In the episode, she also gushed over Edmonds in a confessional, “He completely respects me.”
“Denial,” she states. “I was in denial.”
Elsewhere, the mom of three — who shares daughter Aspen, 4, and twin sons Hart and Hayes, 3, with Edmonds — reacts to a younger version of herself admitting, “Oh yeah, I forgot my name is Meghan Edmonds.”
Today, King — who starred on “Orange County” as a full-time ‘wife for three consecutive seasons from 2015 to 2017 — couldn’t be happier to have reclaimed her original surname.
“Thank God it’s not [Edmonds] anymore, ugh,” she says, shaking her head.
Edmonds and King’s relationship dissolved as cheating allegations came to light. The couple finally called it quits in November 2019, after police were called over a heated argument during a custody exchange.
Their bitter divorce was finalized in May — just months before King wed President Joe Biden’s nephew, Cuffe Biden Owens, in October. (Meanwhile, Edmonds got engaged to former Playboy model Kortnie O’Conner in August, after a year and a half together.)
After splitting from Owens, 43, in December, though, King’s “RHOC” rewatch comes as she settles into another chapter as a single woman.
Discussing more than just her marital miseries with Edmonds, the lifestyle blogger says she will be spilling behind-the-scenes tea about “all of those hilarious, dramatic and sometimes cringe-inducing moments” from her time on “RHOC.”

Doesn’t that take the cake? Recycling your failed marriage — and badmouthing your ex-husband — for clicks on YouTube.

There is a word for this, and that word is trashy.

Like I said, might as well date a Kardashian . . .

Category: Celebrities

Good News From New York

Posted on | January 24, 2022 | Comments Off on Good News From New York

Important, because most of the news from there is bad nowadays:

The “distorted” career criminal accused of shooting two Manhattan cops, killing one and leaving the other clinging to life, died of his wounds Monday, officials said.
Lashawn McNeil, 47, had been in critical condition since being shot by a third officer after fatally gunning down Finest Jason Rivera, 22, and critically wounding NYPD cop Wilbert Mora, 27, during a domestic disturbance inside his brother’s Harlem apartment Friday.
“I hope he burns in hell,” a veteran cop said of McNeil.
Mayor Eric Adams confirmed McNeil’s death at a press conference on gun violence.
Meanwhile, Officer Mora is still clinging to life, police said.
Asked about Mora, the grim-faced mayor, a former city transit cop, called for “prayers.
“Prayers for the family, prayers for our city that we move in the right direction,” he said.
McNeil, who was hit in the head and arm by rookie Officer Sumit Sulan, had been declared brain dead after the incident, a source said.
McNeil’s mother has told The Post that her son, who grew up in Far Rockaway, was mentally ill.
“His mental state is very distorted, and that’s all I can say,” Shirley Sourzes said over the weekend
Sources added Monday that her son lived in Baltimore but that she brought him back to New York to care for his older brother, who has a brain tumor.
She spoke to The Post hours before her son died.
She said she regretted ever dialing 911 on Friday when she got into a beef with him and said she blamed herself for the tragedy that followed.
“If I knew, I never would have made the phone call,” she said. “I would never have called!
“I would like to say to Mr. and Mrs. [Rivera] that I am deeply sorry,” she added. “I know that there is not words that I can express.”
Police said the deranged gunman ambushed the cops by opening fire with an illegally modified Glock .45-caliber handgun during the incident.
The convicted felon was on probation for a 2003 drug conviction when he shot the cops, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a press conference Saturday.
McNeil also had several busts outside of the five boroughs, including a 1998 arrest for gun possession — which was later dismissed — and a 2002 Pennsylvania arrest for assaulting a police officer.
He had two other busts in Pennsylvania the following year for felony and misdemeanor drug charges, records show.
The gun used to shoot the two NYPD cops, which was stolen from Baltimore in 2017, was illegally equipped with a high-capacity magazine that holds an additional 40 rounds.

Convicted felon, on probation, with a stolen gun, killed a cop.

He’s dead now, and that’s the only good news from New York lately. Permit me to point out, in case anyone doesn’t understand, what “career criminal” means. McNeil was in his early 20s when he was busted for illegal gun possession. Four years later, he assaulted a cop, and he was convicted in 2003 for a serious enough drug charge that he was still on probation 19 years later. Despite this fact, which would have prohibited him from possessing firearms, he was armed — with a stolen gun — and why? Who needs a pistol with a 40-round magazine? A serious drug dealer, that’s who. So it would appear that McNeil has been dealing drugs his entire adult life. Is there any evidence that he ever worked an actual job, earning a living by honest means? Not that we know of.

His mother says he was mentally ill — a “very distorted” mental state — but was there any clinical diagnosis of this condition? Had he sought treatment? Or was it rather the case, as we may suspect, that he was collecting disability payments for this phantom “illness” to augment his drug-dealing revenue? Whatever the case may be, the existence of a category of “career criminals” like Lashawn McNeil is a reality that liberal politicians and media commentators refuse to acknowledge when such habitual perpetrators get killed by cops. Anyone who researches George Floyd’s criminal history realizes that he hadn’t spent any time earning an honest living; in Texas, he was engaged in more than one violent robbery, and in Minneapolis, he was attempting to pass counterfeit currency when he was arrested and died of a fentanyl overdose (which had little or nothing to do with how the cops treated him). More than a few others hailed as martyrs by the Black Lives Matter movement had similar criminal histories. It’s not “systemic racism” that’s getting these people killed; it’s their habitual involvement in criminal behavior.

Probably the mob won’t loot any stores or topple any statues to protest the death of Lashawn McNeil — shoot two cops in an ambush, and not even Ben Crump can depict you as a victim of racism — but he is in many ways typical of the category of criminals that BLM has tried to turn into civil-rights icons. Perhaps others are willing to play along with that charade, but I am too street-wise to be played for a chump.

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Yvette Mimieux, RIP

Posted on | January 23, 2022 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As if Sidney Poitier, Betty White, and Meat Loaf weren’t enough, the Grim Reaper also came for Yvette Mimieux, best known for her role as Weena in George Pal’s The Time Machine, but who I first encountered in the movie Dark of the Sun, a brutal movie set during the horrific Simba Rebellion in the Congo during the mid-1960s. Here she is with co-star Rod Taylor in a still from that movie.
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