Obama: Still the Divider-in-Chief

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

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

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

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

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

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

Category: Barack Obama

‘Start This War They Keep Asking For’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Category: Crime, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 06.07.21

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

This is a good wisdom.

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

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

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Sunday: Samsung Sam

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

They’re both 3d, how am I supposed to choose? 😉

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, followed by The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1373, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal magnetism brings us Rule Five Street Violence Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s herd this week includes Parler, The Kominsky Method, June Is Busting Out All Over, La Fille Du Regiment, The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Carmen, Julie London, Samson et Dalila, Turandot, Akhnaten With Bonus Nefertiti, Coconut Monkey Slave Labor, Holly Williams, Macbeth, Annie Lennox, Porgy & Bess, and MAGA – F*ck Facebook.

A View From The Beach hauls in Katrina Law, Fish Pic Friday – Katie, Are Nutria Headed Our Way Again?, Truckin’ Into Thursday, Some Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Fire, Election 2020 – And Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

Brian Noggle wraps up this week’s post with Kathy Ireland from National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0 The Longest Day

Posted on | June 6, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0 The Longest Day

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Rule 5 Sunday: Potato Godzilla Gets Out Of The Robot
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Crazy People Are Dangerous
Proof Positive
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: It’s A Laugh
A View From The Beach
EBL

Creepy Joe Gets Even Creepier
The Pirate’s Cove
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.01.21 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 06.01.21 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

If You’re Worried About That Creepy Old Guy, It’s WHITE SUPREMACY!
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Google ‘Diversity Strategist’ Accused Jews of ‘Insatiable Appetite for War’
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

What ‘Settler Colonialism’ Is About
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.04.21 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In the Mailbox: 06.04.21 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Pics or It Didn’t Happen, Sophie

Posted on | June 6, 2021 | Comments Off on Pics or It Didn’t Happen, Sophie

What is the point of “coming out” as bisexual? For a long time I’ve been asking this question because, on closer examination, the word “bisexual” turns out to be endlessly elastic and is nowadays claimed by many young women who just want to be trendy by showing LGBTQ solidarity. Sort of the way young Democrats call themselves “progressive” or “socialist” rather than merely liberal — it’s about branding and image, really.

So the latest example of this trend is British actress Sophie Turner, who rose to stardom playing Sansa Stark on HBO’s series Game of Thrones. Two years ago, she married singer Joe Jonas and last year gave birth to their first child, a daughter. Thus, as far as any actual proof of her sexual preference exists, Turner is . . . heterosexual. But that would be too ordinary. too boring, insufficiently progressive for a 21st-century starlet:

Did Sophie Turner just come out as bisexual? That’s what many of her fans online seem to think, at least! . . .
[S]he posted a message on her Story earlier this week celebrating the start of Pride Month. . . .
[Her Instagram post] included a heart with the words “bi pride” on it that featured the colors of the bisexual flag!
She also included a GIF that says the phrase “time isn’t straight and neither am I,” and because of that, many [Gamer of Thrones] fans are freaking out at the prospect of Turner possibly coming out of the closet publicly.
This isn’t the first time Sophie has opened up about her sexuality, though.
In a 2019 cover story for Rolling Stone (an honor she shared with fellow Game of Thrones cast member Maisie Williams), the Dark Phoenix star talked about how she knew she was ready to marry her husband, Jonas Brothers heartthrob Joe Jonas, and she had this to say:
“I was fully preparing myself to be single for the rest of my life. I think once you’ve found the right person, you just know. I feel like I’m much older a soul than I am in age. I feel like I’ve lived enough life to know. I’ve met enough guys to know — I’ve met enough girls to know.”
And when asked further about the girls she’s met in her life, Turner then said:
“Everyone experiments. It’s part of growing up. I love a soul, not a gender.”

“Everyone experiments” — I’ve always been amused by this use of the word “experiment” to describe behaviors as if they’re being conducted in a scientific laboratory. In the 1970s, I was “experimenting” with drugs, like Oppenheimer building the first atomic bomb or whatever.

Never do psilocybin mushroom tea and Bolivian flake cocaine together — such is my immortal contribution to pharmacological science, so that spending a month in the psych ward at age 19 wasn’t a complete waste of time, I guess. Having earned my credentials as an expert on crazy (just ask around), it would perhaps be too much to claim scientific expertise in the field of sexuality, but I know a little and, baby, I can guess the rest.

Let me throw some logic at you, Sophie Turner. If we stipulate it is true, as you say, that “everyone experiments,” then what exactly distinguishes the self-declared “bisexual” from . . . well, everyone?

Gotcha.

This whole rainbow-flag alphabet-soup 21st-century trend where practically everyone can claim to be part of the acronym has the effect of making it impossible to know what is meant by the word “bisexual,” when a woman with a husband and a baby, who has never been publicly involved in a homosexual relationship, decides to celebrate her “bi pride.”

On the one hand, I could see Sophie Turner’s statements — “Everyone experiments. It’s part of growing up.” — as intended to reassure young people experiencing confusion: “Hey, don’t sweat it. Look at me — I’m kind of a weirdo, too, but everything turned out all right.”

On the other hand, however, it’s kind of like my psilocybin “experiment” back in 1979: “Hey, kids, don’t even think about it. Just say no.”

That is to say, if the end result of your experimentation with “bisexuality” is to discover that you’re straight — ordinary, boring, vanilla — then what’s the point? Instead of wandering through the marketplace of “sexualities,” you can just skip all that and be normal.

To quote a legendary philosopher: “There is no bisexual. You either [perform fellatio], or you do not [perform fellatio].”

Let’s assume that we know where Sophie Turner stands on that issue. What we need to know (and I mention this only because she herself has made it a matter of public knowledge) is the extent of her own “bisexual” experimentation. How old was she? Who were her partners? Exactly what did they do? Was it her and Maisie Williams? Because I think I speak for millions of guys who could imagine that scenario in cinematic detail.

However vivid our imaginations may be (and trust me, I’ve got the whole gauzy, soft-focus Guccione-photographed scene in my mind), it’s really unfair for Sophie Turner to hint vaguely about her “bisexual” experimentation without offering details. And pictures, preferably. It might be too much to expect “SOPHIE TURNER GAY SEX TAPE” headlines from TMZ, but don’t tell me she didn’t at least get some pictures of her sapphic episodes. “Kids these days,” eh?

How many teenage boys have gone to jail because they decided to record cellphone video of their gang-bang? This use of cellphone images as sexual souvenirs, so to speak, is now commonplace, yet you expect me to believe Sophie Turner has no pictures to prove she’s “bisexual”?

No way. Give us details and photos, or we don’t believe you.

Pics or it didn’t happen, Sophie.

Category: Celebrities, Gays

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | June 5, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Everton Brown, a man from Baltimore, Maryland, seen here in a YouTube video from 2010, protesting at the White House, claiming that he was being targeted for harassment by the FBI.

Brown was not targeted by the FBI. He was crazy.

And what do we know about crazy people, boys and girls? We can leave it to professionals to provide a clinical diagnosis — paranoid schizophrenia, most likely — but when someone organizes their entire life around the delusional belief that they are a victim of persecution, nothing prevents citizens from concluding this person is crazy:

Everton Brown believed that drones were following him. He thought the FBI was breaking into his house to feed his dog and worried the authorities were tampering with his computer.
That’s according to records kept by Baltimore County police, whom Brown called more than 100 times over the past 24 years. Neighbors, too, called police to the Woodlawn neighborhood. They say Brown harassed them and yelled from his porch through a bullhorn.
Despite decades of encounters with local authorities, Brown’s actions continued until they had tragic consequences. Last Saturday morning, police say, Brown, 56, set fire to his home, then shot and killed three neighbors. . . .
Authorities say Brown killed three people: Ismael Quintanilla, 41, Sara Alacote, 37, and Sagar Ghimire, 24. County police officers shot and killed Brown.
Little is publicly known about Brown. He was licensed as a commercial driver in Maryland until 2019 and had owned his home in the Parkview Crossing town house community since 1996, public records show.
County police say Brown had “numerous” contacts with law enforcement, including with the department’s crisis team. Three peace orders had been filed against him since 2008, they said.
The police department did not answer questions from The Baltimore Sun about whether the officers ever took Brown to a hospital for an emergency psychiatric evaluation or how many times he interacted with the crisis team, citing state laws about the confidentiality of health records.

See how this works? The law apparently does nothing to protect you from crazy people, but “the confidentiality of health records” does prevent you from finding out how many times this kook got turned loose.

Would you be surprised to learn that the Maryland legislature this year rejected a bill that would have established clear guidelines for determining if a crazy person is actually dangerous?

Critics of the current law say it often stops people who don’t recognize they are ill from getting timely treatment. Others say making involuntary treatment easier could lead to unnecessary and traumatizing hospitalizations and infringe on patients’ autonomy.
Maryland Del. Nic Kipke, an Anne Arundel County Republican, introduced the unsuccessful 2021 bill. He said current state law offers no guidance on what “danger” means, so it is often interpreted to require overt threats or acts of violence or self-harm.
Under his bill, Kipke said, if Brown’s actions before the shooting showed he was deteriorating mentally, that could have provided a basis for hospitalization.
The bill followed a recommendation from the mental health commission chaired by Rutherford, the lieutenant governor. In a 2020 report, the group said Maryland should “develop a clear and unambiguous standard for determining when individuals in crisis pose a danger to themselves and others.”

See? Making it easier to lock up these kooks would infringe on their autonomy — as if the autonomy of crazy people is a “civil right.”

Video of the May 8 incident where Brown died in a gun battle with cops:

This is the price you pay for the “autonomy” of crazy people — three innocent people killed after years of neighbors complaining about the disturbing behavior of this dangerous kook. Think about the cost, not only in terms of the lives of the people Everton Brown killed, but in the time and money expended to send police out to encounter him, and to dispatch the fire department to extinguish the fire Brown set. Think about all the paperwork that had to be filled out afterwards — a complete waste of time and money that could have been saved by locking up this dangerous kook, the way we locked up kooks back in the Good Old Days.

“When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren’t the kind of institutions I had in mind.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 20, 2012

That blast from the past came to mind this morning when Instapundit called attention to the latest symptom of Ivy League insanity:

‘The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind:’
A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale’s Child Study Center
spoke about ‘unloading a revolver into the head
of any white person that got in my way.’

This story involves a psychiatrist who is a danger to herself and others. Imagine if a white person had publicly fantasized about “unloading a revolver into the head” of black people — they’d be raided by the FBI and an ATF task force quicker than you can say “hate crime.” Gosh, if only Yale University had hired Everton Brown as a lecturer . . .