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GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Chicago Jury Convicts Jussie Smollett in Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

Posted on | December 10, 2021 | Comments Off on GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Chicago Jury Convicts Jussie Smollett in Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

It was “The Dumbest ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax Ever.” Because no intelligent person ever believed Jussie Smollett’s tale of being assaulted by MAGA-hat-wearing white men — in Chicago, at 2 o’clock in the morning, when the temperature was below freezing — his decision to go to trial meant that he was attempting jury nullification. Fortunately, he has failed:

A jury found disgraced actor and former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six charges in a case where he is accused of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.
The verdict came after a roughly one-week trial in which two brothers testified that Smollett recruited them to fake an attack on him near his home in downtown Chicago in January 2019. Smollett repeatedly denied the claims. The brothers said Smollett orchestrated the hoax, telling them to put a noose around his neck and rough him up in view of a surveillance camera, and that he said he wanted video of the hoax made public via social media.
Smollett called the brothers “liars” and said their account was “100% false. He testified over two days about being the victim of what he said was a hate crime, telling the jury ”there was no hoax.”
Abimbola Osundairo, who worked with Smollett on the Chicago set of “Empire,” and his brother, Olabingo Osundairo, also testified that Smollett paid them $3,500 for faking the attack. Smollett said the money was for meal and workout plans that Abimbola Osundairo was providing so the actor could be more toned for upcoming performances.
The Jan. 29 assault was reported to police, prompting a massive investigation that a lead detective said included some two dozen officers and 3,000 staff hours. The investigation — which included video from surveillance cameras, GPS and taxi and rideshare records — led police to the Osundairo brothers, who told detectives Smollett had staged the alleged hate crime.
Smollett’s defense attorneys argued that the brothers attacked the actor — who is gay and Black — because they were homophobic and didn’t like “who he was.” They also alleged the brothers made up the story about the attack being staged to get money from Smollett, and that they told him they wouldn’t testify against him if he paid them each $1 million.
The class 4 felony carries a prison sentence of up to three years, but experts have said Smollett would likely be placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.

We have the receipts of Democrats who promoted this hoax:

Will there be any consequences for Biden, Harris, AOC and the other Democrats who pretended to believe this hoax? Because I don’t believe they ever really did believe it. As I say, every intelligent person recognized this as a hoax from the very moment it was first reported, and I do not think any of these people — not even AOC — is so stupid as to have thought this was really “an attempted modern day lynching.” No, they knew it was a lie, and deliberately amplified it, as a dishonest slander against every Republican (and every white person) in America.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Democrats routinely violate the Ninth Commandment.




 

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 12.09.21

Posted on | December 10, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.09.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Better late than never.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: …And Christmas For All
EBL: SHUT UP WHEATON – Nobody Likes A Poser
Twitchy: The Atlantic Debunks The Moral Panic Around The “Nonexistent” Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Shuts Down Haters For Attacking Him Over Funny Omicron Variant Meme
Vox Popoli: They’re Getting Desperate, How To Build A Town, and 1,000 Videos On UATV

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Make Grim Examples of Them All
American Conservative: The End Of Mass Tourism, also, A Conservative Vision For Albania
American Greatness: Devin Nunes Isn’t Done Saving Our Republic, also, 1/6 Police Beating Victim Speaks – “I Could Have Died”
American Power: Abigail Schrier, also, Schools Confront Wave Of Student Misbehavior
American Thinker: A Callout To Physicians, also, The Concentration Camp Olympics
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nuclear News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Independent Journalist Beaten In Her Home, also, As The Omicron Virus Hits Cuba, The Dictatorship Opens The Door To Apartheid Tourists
BattleSwarm: Faster, Blue Cities! Kill! Kill!
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Issues Vague Update On Lucy’s Solar Panel Deployment Issue, and India Issues New Schedule For Lunar & Manned Missions
Cafe Hayek: What Free Trade Really Does
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Cuomo Discarded But Harris Isn’t Going Anywhere Under The Fedora, Report From Louisiana – A Cantankerous Mood, and Is The Global COVID Tyranny Based On A Heap of Lies?
Don Surber: Democrat Policies Set New Highs For Murder, Voting With Their Feet, and Biden Calls For Unity While Shunning His VP
First Street Journal: The Powers That Be In Philadelphia Continue To Lie And Blame Each Other For Crime Problem
Gates Of Vienna: Ho! Ho! Ho!, also, An Outcast’s Christmas
The Geller Report: Mark Meadows Sues Pelosi’s 1/6 Committee Over Subpoena, Senate Votes 52-48 To Reject Biden’s Jab Mandate For Business, and Trump Says McConnell Holds All The Cards But Doesn’t Have The Guts To Play Them
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, A Surprising Exoplanet, and Ipse Dixit
Hollywood In Toto: Don’t Look Up – Insert Your Favorite Disaster Insult Here
The Lid: Violent Crime Hits Record Highs In Democrat-Run Cities
Legal Insurrection: College-Aged Democrats More Likely To “Despise” Republicans, 38% Of Americans Polled Have Positive View Of Socialism, and Jussie Smollett Found Guilty On Five Of Six Charges
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: Drives Me Wild!
Outkick: No, Simone Biles Was Not “Athlete Of The Year”, Trans Penn Swimmer’s Teammate Speaks Out As “Lia” Thomas Smashes More Records, and COVID Data Shows Infections Dropped Amid Booming SEC Season, Packed Stadiums
Power Line: Record Homicides In City After City, Now He Tells Us!, and Russia Hoax Whitewash Era Begins (4)
Shark Tank: DeSantis Takes Victory Lap – “Florida Democrats Are All In Favor Of People Losing Their Jobs”
Shot In The Dark: Imagine If You Will, Coffee, and This Is “Privilege” In Action
The Political Hat: Normalization Of Wokeness – Dispensation For Whites, Doubleplusungood Words & Phrases, And The Whiteness Of “Anti-Racism”
This Ain’t Hell: Mikey Strikes Again!, Thirty Purple Hearts Approved, and SFC Alwyn Cashe Finally To Receive Medal Of Honor
Victory Girls: Biden Team – Why Not Let Putin Control Part Of Ukraine? 
Volokh Conspiracy: California Stops Requiring Academic Prerequisites For Horseshoeing School
Weasel Zippers: Jussie Smollett Found Guilty, Rep. Tlaib (D-Jihad) Whines That Taxpayers Aren’t Paying Her Student Loans, and CAIR Puts Jewish Groups & Synagogues On Enemies List
The Federalist: As Students Struggle To Recover, Portland Teachers Demand Four-Day Work Weeks, Sheldon Whitehouse Squirms When Pressed On Hunter Biden, and D.A. Makes Excuses For Low Bail Freeing Man Accused In Parade Massacre 
Mark Steyn: Perpetual Boosters

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Category: Linkagery

Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

Posted on | December 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

How much money does the failed ex-NFL quarterback have? Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers should first (a) research Kaepernick’s net worth, then (b) sue him for that amount, and (c) take all his money.

People are going to have be schooled about libel, and it seems appropriate that Colin Kaepernick should be front of the class.

Although I’m not a lawyer, permit me to explain the “public figure” loophole in U.S. libel law, i.e., the Sullivan precedent. This is important to know — if someone is a “public figure,” a category that includes politicians and pro athletes, you can write damned near anything about them and have little risk of losing a libel suit, because the plaintiff in such a case must prove “actual malice.” People who are ignorant of libel law (a category that apparently includes a lot of blue-check Twitter types like Kaepernick) are prone to think they have license to say anything about anybody. But you can’t lie about an ordinary citizen the way the media lied about Donald Trump, which is why Nicholas Sandmann (a high school kid, not a public figure) ended up winning settlements from the Washington Post and CNN. Anyone who thinks it’s fair game to accuse Kyle Rittenhouse, an innocent teenager who was acquitted at trial, of being a “white supremacist” engaged in “terroristic acts” needs an education, and forcing Colin Kaepernick to defend those libelous claims in court would be a splendid educational opportunity.

Whatever else the flaws of “our current system” may be, it ought to function well enough to bankrupt Colin Kaepernick.

Good luck with that jury in Kenosha, Mr. Kaepernick.




 

Category: Celebrities, Crime

In The Mailbox: 12.08.21

Posted on | December 9, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.08.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1560
357 Magnum: Building Firearms Is Not Rocket Science
EBL: What Happened With Waukesha? also, Finnish Exceptionalism
Twitchy: Wil Wheaton Loses His Shit Over Dave Chappelle, also, “Is Math Education Racist?”
Louder With Crowder: Ted Nugent Rips Biden Administration – “You Soulless Pricks”, also, Enjoy Your Schadenfreude Over Hillary Getting Choked Up Over Her 2016 Victory Speech
Vox Popoli: The City Of The Devil, I Really Don’t Miss It, and The Mark Of The Midwit
Stoic Observations: She’s So Heavy 
Gab News: Christians, December 6th Was Your Wakeup Call

 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Washington’s Kurdish Client Collapses, also, Destroying Notre Dame
American Greatness: White House Reportedly Meeting With Media To “Reshape” Negative Coverage Of Biden
American Power: Gordon Prange, At Dawn We Slept
American Thinker: Multiple Fallacies Elevate COVID Vaxes Over COVID Treatments, also, The Opposite Of Tyranny Is Not Democracy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: More Than 800 New Political Prisoners In Communist Cuba Over The Last Year, also, Canadians! Stop Vacationing In Cuba & Propping Up The Repressive Communist Dictatorship!
Baldilocks: That Such Men Lived
BattleSwarm: Just Who Is Bankrolling The Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Russia Launches Two Tourists To ISS, and Strange Eroded Glacier Flows In Unnamed Mars Crater
Cafe Hayek: Regime Uncertainty
CDR Salamander: Hot, Buggy, & The Stuff Wars Are Won Of
Da Tech Guy: Paying In Cash Vs. Paying In Blood, Stacy Abrams Channels Monty Python, and A Blast From The Past – Why Neither Liz Cheney Nor “Latinx” Are Selling
Don Surber: Democrats Sour On Mask Mandates, Privilege 2021, and Trump Showed Republicans How To Win Hispanic Votes
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, The Left Have Internalized The “New Normal”
Gates Of Vienna: Vaclav Klaus Proposes COVID Blue Book, Merry Vaxmas (Round 2), and Eric Zemmour – The Reconquest Of France
The Geller Report: Pamela Geller On Joe Hoft Show – Biden Regime Is “Cacophony Of Chaos”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, I’m Not Making This Up You Know, and How Are These Cities Alike?
Hollywood In Toto: Shock – Critics Savage Progressive Climate Change Satire Don’t Look Up, also, Undeniable Proof The Left Wants To Take Down Joe Rogan
The Lid: Judge Refuses To Reveal Info About FBI Raid On Project Veritas
Legal Insurrection: Iowa U. To Pay Nearly $2 Million In Settlement With Christian Student Groups, Ohio Valley U. In West Virginia To Close Its Doors, and Calif. Mom Says School Bribed Her Son With Pizza To Get The Jab
Michelle Malkin: Inside The Vaccine Passport Racket
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sometimes They Get It Right, also, The Epistle Of Ignatius Of Antioch To Polycarp, Bishop Of Smyrna
Outkick: LSU May Not Have A Scholarship QB For The Texas Bowl, NBA Begged Enes Freedom To Take Off Shoes That Criticized Red China, and Bob Costas Rips LeBron, Kaepernick, & Red China
Power Line: The Geek In Pictures – Delta-Omicron Edition, Good News On The Latino Vote, and Mr. Socialist Confesses
Shark Tank: Florida Democrats Spell Out Spending Priorities
Shot In The Dark: Vibrant, They Can’t Handle The Truth, and Everything’s A Wedge
STUMP: COVID Data Follies
The Political Hat: Newspeak In Action
This Ain’t Hell: Jose Carlos Montanez – YAPS, Blog Of Shame
Transterrestrial Musings: The Democrats, Techno-Optimism, and The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being An Academic
Victory Girls: Putin Zooms Biden On Ukraine – Why You Should Care
Volokh Conspiracy: Showing “20 Things You Didn’t Know About China” Video Leads To Firing Of MN Teacher
Weasel Zippers: Leftist Actor Blames “White Supremacists” After Woke Christmas Series Bombs, Biden Says Americans Have To Pay Their Fair Share – For Gas, and Ted Cruz – Biden Surrendered To Russia On Nordstream 2 Pipeline
The Federalist: Tucker Carlson Rails Against Neocon Push for War In Ukraine, Jeff Zucker Failed To Address Serial Sexual Misconduct At CNN & Should Be Fired Immediately, and Democrats & Planned Parenthood Working To Turn California Into Baby-Killing Dystopia
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, By Jingo If We Do

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

Posted on | December 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

Happy holidays from New York’s “catch-and-release” courts:

A 49-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested for allegedly setting a huge Christmas tree outside the FOX News building in midtown Manhattan ablaze early Wednesday, causing a wild scene and endangering passersby, police said.
Craig Tamanaha was taken into custody at the West 48th Street and Sixth Avenue scene just after midnight and charged hours later with a bevy of crimes, including arson, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and trespassing, the NYPD said.
Police officials said the fire, which was deemed international by fire marshals, caused an estimated $500,000 in property damage in addition to unnecessarily frightening anyone who happened to walk by as the stunning scene developed.
No injuries were reported, but FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott blasted the incident as a “malicious arson attack” in a company-wide email sent Wednesday.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the fire was set, though authorities say Tamanaha allegedly had a lighter at the time he was taken into custody. . . .
It’s also not clear why Tamanaha allegedly set the blaze in the first place, but police say the fire didn’t appear to be premeditated or politically motivated. They believe he acted alone.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Wednesday that Tamanaha is known to the department and has a series of low-level out-of-state arrests, possibly from cases stemming out of Texas, and drug-related offenses.
“He was issued earlier this year some appearance tickets and didn’t come back to court, which is something we see all too often,” Shea said. “I think it’s one where he’s working alone. It’s all very fresh. It’s probably a little preliminary to say what the motivation was. Was mental illness a factor? We’re looking at all of that.”

While the suspect has a Brooklyn address, police say he is known to “loiter” in the Manhattan district near Fox HQ:

Crime is soaring all over the city with violent attacks on subways and random assaults in the street happening far more frequently than in the past two years.
Outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio has been largely blamed for the surge in violence, after softening bail reform to let criminals out of jail early then moving homeless people out of shelters and onto the streets or into hotels during the height of the pandemic.
His term ends on December 31.

Worst mayor ever — worse even than David Dinkins. But it’s not as if New Yorkers are innocent victims — this pro-criminal/anti-cop policy is what they voted for when they elected Bill de Blasio. And of course, 78% of Manhattan residents voted for Biden, so that he could wreck America the way Democrats have already wrecked New York. The city is almost entirely populated by malicious, hateful people, because no decent or honest person would live there. New Yorkers certainly deserve whatever evil fate befalls them, and psychos burning down Christmas trees are the least of their problems. After all, we are talking about people so wicked that they have elected and re-elected Sen. Chuck Schumer.




 

Category: Christmas, Crime, New York

In The Mailbox: 12.07.21

Posted on | December 8, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.07.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Arizona, we remember you.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

USS Arizona after the attack

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: LA’s Liberal Elite Is Getting Mugged
EBL: RIP Marcus Tullius Cicero
Twitchy: “Sir, Do You Even Remember What My Question Was?”, also, Bye Bye, Comrade
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Sounds Off On What The “Let’s Go Brandon” Chant Means, also, Kyle Rittenhouse Has Two Words For LeBron James
Vox Popoli: In Which Scott Adams Is Ripped A New One, A Shocking Failure To Roll Over & Die, and The Fifth Communism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Practice Saying No To The Beast
American Conservative: America Must Stop Enabling The Saudi War In Yemen, also, Goodbye Gotham
American Greatness: A Typology Of Trumpism, also, Congressional Report Details Inhumane Treatment Of 1/6 Inmates
American Power: Democrats Plot Escape From Biden’s Poll Woes, also, Melting Away The Symbols Of The CSA’s Capitol – And Our History
American Thinker: You Heard It Here First – The Old CNN Is Dead, also, The Left-Wing Legacy Of The Mainstream Media
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lockdown News
Babalu Blog: After A Massive Wave Of Arrests, The Cuban Dictatorship Hires More Prison Guards, also, The Paris Club Must Stop Funding The Repressive Cuban Regime
BattleSwarm: Crime Is Rising In America Because That’s What George Soros Wants, also, DeBlasio Imposes New Jab Mandate And New Yorkers Scream “Enough!”
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, ULA & Red China Complete Launches, and Five Things You Don’t Know About Pearl Harbor
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part XCI, also, “A Day Which Will Live In Infamy”
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Stop The Panic!, Why Glenn Reynolds Has Credibility & The MSM Doesn’t, and  A Weird Turn Of Events Concerning The Old Blog
Don Surber: Omicron May Cure COVID, Why Cuomo’s Ratings Didn’t Save Him, and CNN Can’t Even Fire A Guy Right
First Street Journal: For The NYT, Some News Just Isn’t Fit To Print! also, Some (Mostly) Good News
Gates Of Vienna: The Iron Fist Discards The Velvet Glove, Another One Rides The Bus, and Avast Ye Swabs!
The Geller Report: Sen. Cotton – The Only Good Soros Prosecutor Is A Defeated Soros Prosecutor, also, Did CNN’s Don Lemon Obstruct Justice In The Smollett Case?
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Is This Why Democrats Hate Ron DeSantis? and More Dust Biting
Hollywood In Toto: How Hollywood’s Glaring Blind Spot Doomed King Richard, also, Sex & The City Reboot – It’s A Trap!
The Lid: Polling Shows Abysmal Democrat Support For Biden Reelection
Legal Insurrection: Environmental Studies Prof Refutes Students’ Protest For Green New Deal,  College Bars Anti-CRT Speaker While Holding Segregated Events, and Biden Commission Punts On Supreme Court Packing
Nebraska Energy Observer: Counterattack Of Personal Responsibility
Outkick: Marshawn Lynch Gets Two FCC Complaints For Cussing On MNF, Kyle Rittenhouse – “F*** You, LeBron”, and ‘Bama On Verge Of Historic First Heisman For QB
Power Line: Our Underincarceration Problem, Beverly Hills Edition, Desperately Seeking White Supremacists, and The Gins Testimonial
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says He’ll Sign Open Carry Bill
Shot In The Dark: “Gosh, Why Do People Distrust Our Public Health Messaging?”, also, To The Shiny Happies
The Political Hat: The Rise Of The New Communist Menace, also, Social-Emotional Learning
This Ain’t Hell: WaPo Says Intel Agencies Think Russia Will Invade Ukraine With 175,000 Troops, December 7, 1941 – 80 Years Ago Today, and Red China’s Pressure On Taiwan’s Airspace Could Be A Rehearsal
Transterrestrial Musings: Humanity’s Second Parting
Victory Girls: Bad Orange Woman Ignores Science, Snarks About Home Tests, also, Pearl Harbor Remembered
Volokh Conspiracy: What Do Hispanics Prefer To Be Called? Not “Latinx”
Weasel Zippers: Woman Who Dragged Kyle Rittenhouse’s Parents Murdered By Own Son, Bad Orange Woman Doubles Down On Blaming COVID For Organized Smash & Grabs, and Chris Cuomo Prepares To Sue CNN
The Federalist: Fairfax County Residents Oppose Renaming Lee Highway But Bureaucrats Are Doing It Anyway, also, We Need A More Forceful Pushback To A Hostile Media
Mark Steyn: Learn To Uncode, also, Bring On The Next War!

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Patriots Win Smash-Mouth Football

Posted on | December 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Patriots Win Smash-Mouth Football

Damien Harris tramples the Buffalo Bills.

Let’s not mince words about what we witnessed Monday night. What the New England Patriots inflicted on the Buffalo Bills was not merely a defeat, but soul-destroying humiliation. The Bills were emasculated on prime time TV, as the Patriots ran the ball straight down their throats.

It was a brutal spectacle to behold. Over the weekend, I’d published a column at The American Spectator hyping up the game with the expectation that this key AFC game would be the occasion when New England’s rookie quarterback Mac Jones finally silenced the skeptics and haters who have underestimated him. Sure, I’d seen the forecasts for a blustery night in Buffalo, but I had no idea how bad it would actually be — flurries of snow blowing sideways with gusts up to 45 mph.

The goal posts were waggling in the wind like they were made of cheap plastic, and it was obvious that there would be difficulty attempting to pass the ball in such conditions. But the Greatest NFL Coach of the Century, the man with six Super Bowl rings, had a plan — run the ball, then run it some more, followed by run,run, run, ad infinitum.

In the end, New England ran the ball 46 times for 222 and only threw three passes — the fewest passes in a game by an NFL team in more than 40 years. As someone who loves the running game, and often shouts “run the damn ball” at the TV whenever my team is passing too much for my taste, this was like being force-fed a diet of my favorite food.

“No more, please,” I found myself begging, collateral damage in Belichick’s sadistic plot to psychologically destroy the Bills.

So here’s how it went: New England won the coin toss and chose field position that would put the wind at their backs in the second and fourth quarters. That meant they would be playing into the wind — almost impossible to pass, or even to kick a short field goal — during the first and third quarters. The Patriots took the kick off, then run, run, run, punt — three and out. Buffalo ran twice, then tried a third-down pass that fell incomplete, and punted. Then the Patriots — run, run, run, punt — another three and out, except the wind blew the punt sideways and it only went 15 yards, so that Buffalo took over at the New England 40. This looked like trouble, but the Patriots’ defense backed the Bills up to a third-and-nine before disaster struck: New England’s star outside linebacker Matthew Judon jumped offside, giving Buffalo a first down at the Patriot 29 with seven minutes left in the first quarter.

Buffalo’s threat was short-lived, however, as Bills quarterback Josh Allen’s handoff to running back Matt Breida was fumbled, and recovered for the Patriots by defensive end Lawrence Guy. And guess what New England did then? If you guessed “run, run, run,” you’re correct, but on third-and-five, Damien Harris broke through for a 64-yard touchdown.

It was the longest rushing touchdown for the Patriots since 1997, and it seemed to prove something I’ve always felt about the running game. If you keep pounding away — three yards here, five yards there, run, run, run — the defense will start “packing the box” at the line of scrimmage, so that when you finally break through, there’s nobody in the secondary to stop you. Once Harris found an opening, he was gone.

Because the wind made a point-after kick a doubtful proposition, New England went for the two-point conversion, and succeeded with a run by Brandon Bolden, taking an 8-0 lead. On the next Buffalo possession, the Bills got a first down but then stalled — a holding penalty on third down backed them up to fourth-and-17 — before disaster struck again for the Patriots. At no previous time in the season had tight end N’Keal Harry been used to return punts, and no one has yet explained why he was back deep for New England, when he let the ball bounce off his helmet, a fumble that was recovered by Buffalo at the Patriot 14.

On the very next play, Bills QB Josh Allen threw a TD, and with the extra point, the score was New England 8, Buffalo 7. The Patriots immediately answered, driving down to the Buffalo 23 where Nick Folk kicked a field goal to make it 11-7. It was during this drive that Mac Jones attempted his first pass of the game, a short flare to tight end Jonnu Smith which, under normal conditions, would have been a “gimme.” But these were not normal conditions, and the wind caused the pass to sail high so that Smith only caught it with a tremendous one-handed effort.

After that one pass, New England’s next 32 plays were runs. It wasn’t until the fourth quarter that Jones threw the ball again, ultimately finishing 2-for-3 for 19 yards. In the third quarter, Buffalo drove down to the New England 20 before stalling and settling for a field goal that cut the Patriots’ lead down to a single point. But on their next possession, the Patriots ran the ball 14 times, chewing up more than eight minutes on the clock before stalling at the Buffalo 16, where Nick Folks’ second field goal made it Patriots 14, Bills 10, with 13 minutes left to play.

Josh Allen and the Bills weren’t ready to quit, though. They drove all the way down to get first-and-goal at the New England 6, but then Judon sacked Allen on second down, Allen’s third down pass fell incomplete, and Buffalo went for a field goal. Hey, did I mention the wind was a factor in this game? The 33-yarder should have been a chip shot for Buffalo’s Tyler Bass, but a gust blew it wide right, and New England took over with a little more than seven minutes left to play. Three plays later, they punted, and Allen brought the Bills back driving down the field. On third-and-14 at the Patriot 18, Allen aimed for the end zone, but what would have been a touchdown pass was broken up by veteran safety Adrian Phillips. Then on fourth down, Allen’s final attempt at a touchdown pass was batted away by cornerback Myles Bryant.

A hard-fought and memorable game, and one that left Buffalo feeling bitter and embarrassed. There is something about getting pounded in the running game — when you’re stacking up eight, nine, even 10 guys at the line trying to stop it, and you can’t — that is just about the most demoralizing thing in the world. The Patriots imposed their will on the Bills, dominated and humiliated them on national television.

The Patriots were laughing when it was over.

ZING! You know you’re winning when you’re ragging on your quarterback like that. Having won seven in a row to run their record to 9-4, first in the AFC, the Patriots now have an 11-day bye week before their Dec. 18 game at Indianapolis. The Titans, Ravens and Chiefs are all 8-4, but even if all three of them win next weekend, New England would still be the top seed in the AFC by virtue of their 7-1 record against conference opponents. As for Buffalo, well, they’ve got to play Tom Brady and the Buccaneers at Tampa next, and it’s unlikely the Bills will be recovered by then from the psychological damage they suffered Monday.

Buffalo is done, finished, broken, and I doubt anyone now would bet against the Patriots taking the AFC East title.




 

Category: Football

California School District: ‘Write Your Own Hex Poem, Cursing That Person’

Posted on | December 7, 2021 | Comments Off on California School District: ‘Write Your Own Hex Poem, Cursing That Person’

In the name of “social justice,” California students are now studying witchcraft. Spencer Lindquist of the Federalist explores the “equity” resource page for Campbell Union High School District in San Jose:

One section titled “Hex” tells the reader, “Hexing people is an important way to get out anger and frustration.” It becomes increasingly deranged, suggesting that those who say “all lives matter” or commit “microaggressions,” should be targeted. “Write your own hex poem, cursing that person,” it instructs.
When asked her thoughts on the document that instructed K-12 students to use witchcraft on political opponents, Branham [High School] teacher Meredith Allen told The Federalist she hasn’t read the documents her district recommends, so she “can’t comment,” but that she is generally “opposed to the ‘all lives matter’ message.”

Now go do that voodoo that you do so well . . .

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)




 

Category: California, Education
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