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Joe Manchin Wrecks ‘Build Back Better,’ Ruins Christmas for Democrats

Posted on | December 21, 2021 | Comments Off on Joe Manchin Wrecks ‘Build Back Better,’ Ruins Christmas for Democrats

Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth in impotent fury at the West Virginia senator who refused to let them join in any reindeer games:

The White House accused Sen. Joe Manchin III of a double-cross on President Biden’s mammoth social welfare and climate change legislation.
In a fiery statement, White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki rebuked the West Virginia Democrat for making an “inexplicable reversal” days after pledging support for the $1.75 trillion social welfare bill.
“On Tuesday of this week, Senator Manchin came to the White House and submitted — to the president, in person, directly — a written outline for a Build Back Better bill that was the same size and scope as the President’s framework, and covered many of the same priorities,” Ms. Psaki said. “While that framework was missing key priorities, we believed it could lead to a compromise acceptable to all.”
The statement was released to the public shortly after Mr. Manchin told “Fox News Sunday” he had struggled for months over whether to support the bill but ultimately could not.
“I’ve always said this, but if I can’t go home and explain to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for it,” said Mr. Manchin. “And I cannot vote to continue this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there … This is a no.” . . .
“Senator Manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate on finalizing that framework ‘in good faith,’” Ms. Psaki said. “If his comments on Fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate.”

Oh, he breached his “commitments,” did he? What about Joe Biden’s “commitments”? Wasn’t the basic thrust of his election campaign that he was a moderate? And yet Biden has (or rather, his handlers have) spent most of the past year attempting to ram through a radical policy agenda dictated by the AOC/Bernie Sanders wing of the party.

Like spoiled children denied a treat, Democrats are now stomping their feet and screeching uncontrollably as they vent their rage at Manchin.

AOC is as ignorant of geography and demographics as is she is of everything else, and it apparently has not occurred to her that whatever the relative size of their constituencies, she and Joe Manchin represent very different kinds of people with very different interests. Like, how many bisexual cat ladies are there in West Virginia, compared to NY-14? And I’m pretty sure there are very few coal miners in the Bronx.

And then there was this pleasant celebrity emission:

Unlike AOC, at least Bette Midler got some facts right: The population of Brooklyn (2.6 million) is larger than West Virginia, but does anyone really believe there is less illiteracy, poverty and drug addiction in Brooklyn than in West Virginia? Last time I checked, Bette Midler had sold her $50 million Fifth Avenue penthouse and was living in bucolic Dutchess County, so I don’t why she’s choosing Brooklyn as her reference point, except that a lot of liberals live there. She later apologized for insulting West Virginians, but not for hating Manchin, who has become a Trump-like scapegoat figure in the minds of liberals who can’t seem to understand why they couldn’t ram their $2 trillion scam through the Senate. Political failure always leads to this kind of hunt for scapegoats; whenever Republicans lose an election, the party establishment starts lashing out at “evangelicals” and other right-wing “extremists” whom they blame for the defeat. Democrats never blame their own “extremists,” however, because that would be racist. So instead Democrats now explain their failure by turning Manchin into a demonized representative of all those STUPID REDNECK HILLBILLIES they hate so much.

Merry Freaking Christmas, losers.




 

Category: Democrats, West Virginia

In The Mailbox: 12.20.21

Posted on | December 21, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.20.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today, Senator Joe Manchin dances the dance of victory.

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Not quite how the Christmas events in Fate/Grand Order work…*

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Illinois CCW Holder Stops Rottweiler Attack
EBL: 50 Cognitive Biases In The Modern World, also, Station Eleven
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Drops Marc Elias For Smearing GOP & Trying To Make It Easier For Democrats To Cheat, also, Kurt Schlichter Has A Hallmark Christmas Movie Pitch That MUST Be Made
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Hammers Critics With How Much He’s Paying In Taxes This Year (Hint: More Than Fauxcahontas)
Vox Popoli: Conversating About Conversations, The Supply Chain Crisis, and A Message For The American People
Gab News: Against The Modern Judaizers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Good Excrement & Bad Excrement
American Conservative: Democrats’ Democracy Delusions, also, The Astonishing Late Bloom Of The Weak Joe Biden
American Greatness: Why Would Hispanics Drop The Left? also, Adam Schiff’s Delusion
American Power: NFL Grapples With COVID Outbreaks & Postponed Games, also, “Dark Winter” At The White House
American Thinker: Judging Fauci, also, How Did The FBI End Up In This Mess?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship Runs Out Of Paper, Can’t Print New Ration Books For 2022, also, Leftist Gabriel Boric Elected President Of Chile
Baldilocks: Remembering Philip Ochieng
BattleSwarm: Texas & Florida Added Over Half The Nation’s New Jobs In November, also, No Exit
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, SLS Likely Facing Another Launch Delay, and SpaceX Completes Second Launch In Less Than Sixteen Hours
Cafe Hayek: A Christmas Carol
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Here’s Your Worrisome Military Culture
Da Tech Guy: Kyrie Gets The Last Laugh, Ask Yourself These Questions, and Report From Louisiana – The Pre-Christmas Roundup
Don Surber: COVID Is Boring, Target Stops Cops From Buying Toys For Poor Kids, and Defund Police – And Watch Hispanics Vote Republican
First Street Journal: What Could Have Happened If The School District Did Otherwise? also, He Feels Like A Woman
Fred On Everything: Stop Lawlessness & Looting Before It’s Too Late…For Blacks
Gates Of Vienna: The Party Is Always Right, Different Rules For Different Fools, and Fudging The Numbers
The Geller Report: CNN Host Puzzled By Biden’s Unpopularity, also, El Salvador’s President Accuses Biden Administration Of Corruption – And Has The Texts To Prove It
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, A View From The Moon, and Cosmic Cavities
Hollywood In Toto: How Eric Roberts Became The Lou Gehrig Of Independent Films, also, Louis C.K. Takes Cancel Culture Baton From Dave Chappelle In Sorry
The Lid: Joe Biden’s Top 10 Lies Of 2021
Legal Insurrection: 2000 Rabbis Call For Suspension Of DEI Programs, SDSU Spent $250,000 On A “Healing Garden” Nobody Uses, and Left Flips Out After George Will Assails 1619 Project As “Historical Illiteracy” and “Not Innocent Ignorance”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The Fourth Sunday Of Advent
Outkick: Jags Don’t Want To Pay Urban Meyer The Rest Of His Contract, Red Wings GM Yzerman Wants To Know Why We’re Testing Nonsymptomatic Athletes, and Tom Brady Whined Like Baby During Saints’ 9-0 Dismantling Of Bucs
Power Line: Anthony Fauci, Political Thug, Deep Meaning Of “Expodentially”, and The Manchin Manifestation
Shark Tank: Stephanie Murphy Won’t Run For Re-Election
Shot In The Dark: Lit,  The Older Joe Biden Gets, and How Can You Tell The Democrats Are Polling Really Badly?
The Political Hat: Twelve Posts Of Christmas, Day 6, Day 7, and Day 8
This Ain’t Hell: Antifa Goes To Federal Prison, Another Four Are Known, and Proposed NJ Bill To Toughen Stolen Valor Penalties
Transterrestrial Musings: “No Evidence”, also, Another Blue Origin Employee Jumping Ship
Victory Girls: Jake Sullivan Is Pleased With The Afghan Bugout, also, Manchin Tells White House – This Is Your Fault
Volokh Conspiracy: Thoughts On Sixth Circuit’s OSHA Mandate Stay Decision & What Comes Next
Weasel Zippers: Occasional Cortex Calls Senate “Fundamentally Undemocratic”, U.S. Now Facing Candy Cane Shortage One Week Before Christmas, and Joe Manchin Officially Kills Build Back Better
The Federalist: Damning Emails Prove Fauci & Collins Colluded To Nuke Herd Immunity Strategies, Yellowstone Origin Story 1883 Is The Western We Need Right Now, and New Tax Returns Further Reveal How Zuckbucks Swayed 2020 Election
Mark Steyn: John Wayne Must Die, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, and Always Winter, Never Christmas

*In case this is too obscure, during the parody Carnival Phantasm, various characters complain to Sehai-kun, the personification of the Grail, about one thing or another. Sehai-kun’s reply is invariably “Oh, $character, you’re so useless. What you need is a $tool!” after which he drops a butcher knife in front of the character.

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‘No Stranger to Law Enforcement’

Posted on | December 20, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘No Stranger to Law Enforcement’

Say hello to 32-year-old Davis Howard Jr., who was behind the wheel of a speeding Maserati in Bunnell, Florida, when a Flagler County deputy blue-lighted him and Howard took off — because, really, what’s the point of driving a Maserati if you can’t try to outrun cops once in a while?

The high-speed chase ended only after “stop sticks” were deployed:

During that high-speed chase, Howard called his mother and she was the one who eventually got him to stop the car, according to deputies.
A woman in the car with him also tried to get him to stop, she told deputies.

So nice of him to call his mom. More from the sheriff’s office:

It was determined that Howard had a suspended license since 4/4/2016.
A probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted and multiple illegal drugs were found. Deputies recovered 44 white pills, identified as Oxycodone, in the driver’s door compartment, along with 12g of marijuana. In the center cup holder, deputies recovered 8.2g marijuana and on the rear right passenger seat was a small black bag containing two small baggies with an additional 200 Oxycodone pills. A total of 44g of Oxycodone was recovered and $5,651 was seized.
Howard is no stranger to law enforcement and has been charged 43 times in Florida, with nine felony convictions. He’s previously been charged for Grand Theft of a Motor Vehicle, Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Tampering with Physical Evidence, Destroying Evidence, Flee and Elude Law Enforcement, Use or Display of Firearm During Felony, Possession of Weapon/Ammo by Convicted Felon, Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Sell, Possession of Cocaine, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Synthetic Cannabinoids, Possession of a Controlled Substance without Prescription, Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Sell, Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Sell, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Aggravated Battery on Law Enforcement Officer with Motor Vehicle, Use Under 18 Years Old to Sell/Deliver Meth, Trafficking Opium, Trafficking Controlled Substances, and Trafficking Phenethylamines. He’s also been charged in Illinois on multiple felony drug charges.

Evidently, he’s been a full-time criminal his entire life, but for some reason was not behind bars, and was instead driving around Florida in a Maserati. Here’s video of the pursuit and arrest:

 

Some of my libertarian friends are against “The War on Drugs,” but if drugs were legal, how would someone like Davis Howard Jr. be able to afford a Maserati? Making drugs illegal creates lucrative opportunities for, uh . . . Well, people who wouldn’t be obeying the laws no matter what the laws were. I mean, it’s not illegal to own a Maserati, but it is illegal to drive with a suspended license. Criminals don’t obey traffic laws the same way they don’t obey drug laws or gun laws or just about any other law you’d care to name. What’s the point of having any laws at all, if you think it’s social injustice to put criminals in jail? Because that’s what really inspires the notion that we shouldn’t be locking up drug dealers, i.e., the “disparate impact” argument. When I think back on my own youthful career in freelance pharmaceutical distribution, the fact that I was a suburban white boy didn’t make me exempt from law-enforcement scrutiny. I didn’t have “white privilege,” but I also wasn’t driving around in a Maserati — a spectacularly stupid thing to do, when you’re hauling contraband. While I don’t want to turn this blog into a how-to guide for drug dealers, permit me to observe that a used Volkswagen is a lot less conspicuous than a late-model sports car. Just sayin’ . . .

There are two kinds of drug dealers:

  1. Smart guys who keep a low profile;
    and
  2. Idiots who drive around in flashy cars and go to prison.

We know which category Davis Howard Jr. belongs to:

Howard was arrested for Trafficking Oxycodone 25g or More, Fleeing with Disregard of Safety to Persons/Property, Driving While License Suspended with Knowledge, Selling of Oxycodone, and Possession of Marijuana 20g or more. He was transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and is being held on $160,500 bond.

On the advice of my attorney, Bert the Samoan Lawyer, I’ll note that anything written here about my own youthful behavior is fiction, as far as you know. But I damned sure wasn’t driving a Maserati.




 

Category: Crime, Florida

Rule Five Sunday: Nadezhda Zhukova

Posted on | December 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: Nadezhda Zhukova

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Remember that Russian nurse who showed up for work at the mens’ ward of a hospital in Tula wearing almost nothing under her transparent PPE? The New York Post remembered, God bless them, and followed up with a story about how she not only kept her nursing job (despite angry noises from her bosses) but picked up a modeling gig with Zasport, a Russian sportswear company whose gear is worn by Russian Olympians. Here’s a shot of her demonstrating some of their gear.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Miss Zhukova doing the modeling thing (h/t EBL)

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1568, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Populism Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: Banned By YouTube, NYC Covid Explosion (featuring our gal Zhukova), The Deep Dark Woods, Barbara Eden, Swan Song, Westworld Season 4 Preview, Miracle On 34th Street, Christmas Holiday, Inger Støjberg, Julie Michaels, Mazzy Star, Blast Of Silence, Rie Sinclair, Janice Dean, and Julie London.

A View From The Beach: Hanna Montazami, Fish Pic Friday – Renee Waddick, Warp Nine, Scotty!, It’s Tattoo Thursday, Some Wednesday Wetness, Do It Like, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Sunday Sunrise, and Just Shake It Off, Taylor.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

Colts Beat Patriots 27-17; Taylor Rushes for 170 Yards; Playoff Race Tightens

Posted on | December 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Colts Beat Patriots 27-17; Taylor Rushes for 170 Yards; Playoff Race Tightens

What happened Saturday night to the Patriots in Indianapolis was a brutal reminder that every winning streak must ultimately end. Not only did the Colts break New England’s seven-game winning streak, but it was the first time Indianpolis had beaten the Patriots since 2009, when Peyton Manning was the Colts’ quarterback — a game remembered by every New England fan as the 4th-and-2. Indianapolis running back Jonathan Taylor looked very much like the league MVP Saturday, rushing for 170 yards on 29 carries, including the 67-yard TD run in the fourth quarter that capped the 27-17 victory for the Colts.

Andrew Callahan of the Boston Herald:

Patriots rookie quarterback Mac Jones overcame a pair of interceptions to lead three straight scoring drives in the fourth quarter. He went 26-of-45 for 299 yards, two touchdowns and the two picks. Tight end Hunter Henry caught both scores.
The Pats’ special teams proved disastrous all night, starting with a blocked punt returned for a touchdown in the first quarter. All together, they gifted 10 points to the Colts, who produced just 105 yards of offense outside of Taylor.

The blocked punt near the end of the first quarter followed a perfect third-down pass from Jones to Jakobi Meyers that would have been a first down if Meyers hadn’t dropped it. People who didn’t follow Mac Jones as closely as I did during his championship season with Alabama can’t imagine how frustrating it is for Crimson Tide fans to see dropped passes like that. I mean, Devonta Smith never dropped a ball that I can remember, and he certainly never had a drop that hurt the Tide as bad as Meyers’ drop Saturday hurt the Patriots. After the blocked punt (the third time that’s happened to New England this season), the Colts had a 14-0 lead, and the Indianapolis game plan — shut down the Patriots’ running game and force Jones to throw — was already a success, but that one dropped pass made all the difference. Catch the damned ball.

Excuse me if I seem to be over-emphasizing this, but my dad played end in high school — earning All-Valley honors — and he couldn’t stand to see a dropped pass. The idea of a professional wide receiver dropping a perfectly thrown ball the way Jakobi Meyers did? Man, I hate to imagine what the old man would have said about that play. On the other hand, because I was watching the game with my brother Kirby (it was on NFL Network, so we went to a restaurant and had dinner while watching it on the big screen), I didn’t really have to imagine it. Anyway . . .

Mistakes cost the Patriots the game, pure and simple. For example, with less than five minutes left in the first half, the Patriots went driving down the field — Jones hit Kendrick Bourne for 15 yards, Rhamondre Stevenson ran for 13 yards, and then Jones hit Hunter Henry for 25 yards to give New England a first down at the Indianapolis 22. On first down, Meyer gains nine yards on an end-around, so it’s second-and-1 at the Colts’ 13 at the two-minute warning. Everybody watching the game had to figure that, at a minimum, the Patriots would get a field goal out of it, and go into the locker room trailing 14-3, but the way they were moving the ball, it seemed likely the drive would end in a touchdown. So, we return from the two-minute warning and tight end Jonnu Smith jumps before the snap, a five-yard penalty that turned it into second-and-6. One play later, on 3rd-and-3, Jones tries to throw to Hunter Henry in the middle of coverage — picked off. Mac took the blame for that:

“I just threw it right to him. It was a good play, but unacceptable. You can’t win until you stop from losing. I mean, I handed the ball to the guy. I did that twice, and that hurt us. I thought the defense played pretty well, and I just shot them in the foot myself by giving them the short field and giving them the ball. That’s just my fault and I’ll learn from it, but I’m not going to be gun-shy or anything. (I’ll) just learn from it and move on.”

Well, yeah, but that false start penalty hurt. How the hell do you get all the way to the NFL and you can’t remember the snap count? The QB can’t say that in a press conference, of course, but from 2nd-and-1, you almost always get the first down, and that five-yard penalty was crucial to why that drive ended in failure. But as bad as it was — and there are no “moral victories” in the NFL — there were a few bright lights in the darkness.

This Jones pass to N’Keal Harry, for example:

Third-and-6 from his own 42-yard line, Jones drops back all the way to the 31 and then launches a rocket, with Harry making a leaping grab at the Indianapolis 15. A deep pass like that is the perfect rebuttal to the various analysts who keep saying Mac has a “weak arm.”

Also, the critics say, Jones is “not athletic,” but look at him scramble for 12 yards and a first down early in the game:

OK, so that’s not a Lamar Jackson-level run, but the way critics talk about Mac’s alleged lack of “mobility” (translation: he’s white), you wouldn’t think he was capable of running that far or even escaping pressure in the pocket. But now look at this third-down pass to Meyers:

That is an excellent example of football IQ. Jones displayed that eyes-in-the-back-off-his-head sense of the pressure that great quarterbacks have, stepping up away from the pressure and making a tough throw into the middle of the field. As much as Meyers hurt the team with his later drop, he’s usually an excellent receiver — Mac’s favorite target, in fact.

Because Jones is a rookie, and stepping into the gigantic shoes of the GOAT, Tom Brady — “Saint Thomas of Foxboro,” in the eyes of New England fans — the aftermath of Saturday’s loss is going to involve a lot of criticism focused on Mac. This is a week where it will be painful to watch any of the ESPN/Fox News panel shows, as they endlessly discuss whether or not Jones is an “elite quarterback” (a phrase overused by NFL analysts the way “suburban swing voter” is overused by political pundits).

Football is a team sport, and the media obsession with star players — especially quarterbacks — is annoying to me. Whatever anybody says on ESPN, the simple fact is, Mac Jones didn’t lose that game.

Yeah, he threw two interceptions, and his QBR was just 54, but there was plenty of blame to go around. Penalties — dear God, the penalties! The first-quarter drive on which Jones hit that third-down pass to Meyers might have gone all the way, but on 2nd-and-nine, when Jones hit Jonnu Smith for 14 yards, which should have given New England a first down at the Indianapolis 33, Patriots tackle Shaq Mason was called for ineligible receiver downfield. That made it 2nd-and-14, then there was a delay-of-game penalty (Mac’s fault, ultimately), so instead of first-and-10 in Colts’ territory, now the Patriots have it 2nd-and-19 at their own 43. Then on third down, Jones got sacked for a 15-yard loss, so the once-promising drive turned to crap because of mistakes by the offensive line, first Mason’s penalty, and then tackle Isaiah Wynn missing the block that allowed the sack. New England finished the night with eight penalties for 50 yards, which is just unacceptable for a team in the playoff hunt this late in the season. You can’t play sloppy football like that in a crucial game against a team like Indianapolis, which was hungry for a win to keep their own playoff hopes alive. Nevertheless, at 9-5, the Patriots are still very much a contender, leading the AFC East as they get ready for next week’s home game against the second-place Buffalo Bills. Win that game, and the shame of losing to the Colts will be forgotten.

Remember, the only reason I’ve become obsessed with New England this season is because they drafted Mac Jones in the first round, so I now refer to the Patriots with first-person plural pronouns — “we,” “us,” “ours” — the same as I do the Crimson Tide. Jones could become the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to make it to the Super Bowl, and I don’t care what any ESPN “experts” say, I think the kid has what it takes to do it. Oh, he’s not athletic, he’s not mobile, he’s got a weak arm, all the experts say, but look at this clutch pass to Hunter Henry:

Late in the third quarter, trailing 20-0, third-and-four, under pressure and — BOOM! — he makes an incredible throw across the field for a first down. That drive ended in a touchdown, and the Patriots very nearly came back to win. But OK, it’s football, and sometimes you lose. The test of character is whether you can shake it off and bounce back.

Super Bowl LXVI, baby — I still believe in the dream.




 

Category: Football

FMJRA 2.0: Thousand Dollar Car

Posted on | December 19, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Thousand Dollar Car

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was a better week for the Senators, as they went on the road to Cincinnati and split two with the Reds and then went to Seattle and split two with the Pilots. Teddy Baseball is taking the weekend off to go fishing in Lake Washington, so things are quieter around the clubhouse.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Our manager in his happy place.

Rule 5 Sunday: Polyana Viana
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
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Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny


Waking Up From Wokeness
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But They Told Me This ‘Elite Pedophile’ Stuff Was a Conspiracy Theory 
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FMJRA 2.0: Sedan Delivery
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A Blast From the Past
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Mystery Surrounds Perpetrator of ‘Deplorable Acts of Anti-Black Hatred’ 
The Pirate’s Cove
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In The Mailbox: 12.14.21 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 12.14.21 (Evening Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 12.15.21
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Speaker Pelosi Denounces ‘Outrageous Lawlessness’ of Her Own Constituents
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Never Text Your Ex
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In The Mailbox: 12.16.21
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Killer Lesbians: British Couple Sentenced to Prison in Death of Toddler Daughter
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Kick the Damned Field Goal! (Or, How ‘Analytics’ Is Ruining Football)
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In The Mailbox: 12.17.21
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Top linkers for the week ending December 17:

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Merry Christmas, Florida Man!

Posted on | December 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Merry Christmas, Florida Man!

Say hello to Florida resident Steven Stillwell. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the 42-year-old Stillwell “has an extensive criminal arrest history of 14 felonies, 5 misdemeanors, and 11 re-arrest charges . . . including: multiple burglaries and larcenies, DUI, multiple violations of probation, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a weapon/ammunition by a convicted felon, dealing in stolen property, and fraud.” Stillwell’s lengthy criminal history nearly ended this week, thanks to an armed homeowner:

Detectives with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to the shooting of a man who they said broke into a Lakeland home Tuesday afternoon.
The homeowner told deputies that the man, later identified as 42-year-old Steven Stillwell, forced his way into the residence by throwing a flower pot through a glass door at around 12:50 p.m., according to a news release.
Deputies said Stillwell was shot three times by the homeowner. Stillwell was later taken to a hospital where he was last reported in critical, stable condition, according to the release.
Detectives said they found a shotgun belonging to Stillwell in the backyard of the home, as well as video evidence showing Stillwell approaching the home through the backyard.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the evidence in the case indicated that Stillwell illegally entered the home, and that the homeowner did the right thing by shooting him.
“The castle doctrine is very clear in Florida law. A person’s home is his refuge,” Judd said in a statement. “The homeowner did exactly what he had a right to do. I commend him for protecting himself and defending his home.”

We presume that, if Stillwell survives his wounds, he will spend a long time in Florida’s prison system. Who says there’s no good news anymore? Merry Christmas!




 

Category: Crime, Florida

‘Shopping Cart Killer’ Caught, Police Say

Posted on | December 18, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Shopping Cart Killer’ Caught, Police Say

He did “unspeakable things with his victims”:

Law enforcement in Fairfax, Virginia on Friday announced they have a suspected serial killer in custody, two days after officials discovered human remains in a container left in a wooded area.
The suspect was identified as Anthony Robinson, 35.
Authorities also named Cheyenne Brown, a 29-year-old Washington, D.C., woman who has been missing since September, as one of at least four of his victims.
“He’s killed four already, and we suspect that he has more victims. He’s a predator, as all serial killers are,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said during a news conference Friday, adding that the so-called “Shopping Cart Killer” does “unspeakable things with his victims.”
Fairfax homicide detectives on Wednesday discovered the shopping cart in a wooded area off of Route 1 near the Moon Inn. A container beside the shopping cart had two sets of human remains that were so “decomposed” that “it’s going to take a little time” for authorities to complete an autopsy, according to Fairfax Police Chief Kevin Davis.
Based on a preliminary analysis, officials were able to identify Brown. A second set of remains discovered in the container has yet to be identified. Authorities will conduct further testing, including a DNA analysis.
Brown’s family told WRC-TV, a local NBC affiliate, that she had a 7-year-old son and was pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
Robinson is also suspected of killing two women, ages 54 and 34, whose remains were discovered in Harrisonburg in November. Officials also discovered the other two victims’ remains in shopping carts, Davis said.
The alleged killer’s M.O. included meeting his victims online, luring them to motels, killing them and transporting their remains in shopping carts, according to Davis. . . .
Robinson allegedly met his victims, including Brown, on a dating website.
The two were in contact with each other on the night of Sept. 30 at a metro stop in D.C. before she went missing, according to O’Connell. Robinson may have contacts between New York and Harrisonburg, Virginia, if not elsewhere beyond those places.
The suspect is currently being held at Rockingham County Jail in Virginia.

How many times have I warned y’all about online dating? Swipe right, and next thing you know, a serial killer’s doing “unspeakable things” to you, then dumping your corpse in some remote location where your badly decomposed remains are found months later. All because you didn’t listen to me when I told you: Online dating is for losers.

And serial killers. But mainly just losers.




 

Category: Crime, Virginia
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