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In The Mailbox: 10.30.23

Posted on | October 31, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.30.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hamas et Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Average Bubba: Gen Z’s Falling Into The Abyss
357 Magnum: Your Tax Dollars At Work – Or Not, As The Case May Be
EBL: Hamas leader Isamil Haniyeh called for Palestinian civilians to die in Gaza (from the comfort of his home in Qatar), Matthew Perry Beat The Crap Out Of Justin Trudeau? Music From The Lutheran Reformation, Painkiller, and Trucks: Electric vs. Hybrid? How about just plain old diesel or gasoline ICE?
Twitchy: Hockey World Shaken As Calls Increase For Arrest Of Matt Petgrave, Young Palestinian-Canadian Supports Hamas Unlike White Supremacist Idiots, and Peoples’ Jobs Are Reportedly Being Targeted For Their Support Of Hamas
Louder With Crowder: Gina Carano goes BEAST MODE on Disney’s Kathleen Kennedy after South Park destroys the animated version in the Panderverse, UFC champion tests limits of Bud Light sponsorship with “anti-trans” comments, Goldie Hawn Says An Alien With Triangle-Shaped Head Touched Her And It Was, Quote, ‘Like The Finger Of God’, and He’s sorry about sucker-punching people for social media clout, but wishes you would leave him alone about it
Vox Popoli: A Warning for Americans, Clowns in Congress, RIP Chandler Bing, Lonesome October, A Review of PLUTARCH’S LIVES, If At First You Don’t Succeed, and That Will Show China
Draw & Talk: Artist Asks, “When Do You Throw In The Towel & Quit?”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: From ‘Never Again’ to ‘Now and Again’, also, When College Presidents Were America’s Conscience 
American Greatness: COVID ‘Vaccine’ Destroys WHAT Part of Your Body?, 100 Syrians, 50 Iranians Among Illegal Border Crossers in October, and Son of Former WEF Honcho Calls For the Arrests of Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and Other Globalist Leaders
American Thinker: ‘Queers For Palestine’ March in Solidarity with Hamas, Johnson as Speaker Changes Everything, The Death of Democrat Jewish Innocence, The Dead End Of Victimhood Benefits Only Its Promoters, and How to Defeat Hamas Fast, Cheap and Easy
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty I
Babalu Blog: Cubans living under constant threat of building collapses warn ‘Old Havana is rotting’, Cuba sends more slave doctors to Mexico, Nicaraguan dictator to bring in Cuban military for ‘humanitarian assistance’, Colombia’s socialist president rejected in regional elections, and Mexico’s Lopez-Obrador is stuck in the mud
BattleSwarm: The Palestine Myth, French Suburb Thrives After Ditching Ugly Commie Architecture, and California Democrats Disarm Synagogues
Behind The Black: Intuitive Machines delays launch of its Nova-C lunar lander two months, An infrared view of the Crab Nebula by Webb, SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites, Two mouse embryos successfully grown on ISS, Chandra X-rays a giant hand in space, and Don’t forget: The protesters supporting the Hamas mass murderers are all Democrats
Cafe Hayek: Emoting Is Easier Than Thinking
CDR Salamander: Rickover Uncensored with Claude Berube, also, 33 and 10
Chicago Boyz: Zoom versus In-Person
Da Tech Guy: Stay at home babies? Not so fast, Hamas Ghastly Dead Jew Math & a Suggestion to Israel, Why I Was Not Surprised at the Pro Hamas, Death to Israel Crowd Today , The longer the delay in Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the more likely the Democrat Party will lose Jewish members, and Under the Fedora: UN Talk vs Shot, The Just Murdering Kids High Ground, Pam and Robert Being Right Sometimes Sucks, Self Inflicted Wounds, Schlichter and Wayne on Barbarians
Don Surber: Fight the war already, Israel
First Street Journal: The left only care about gun control when white people get killed, and heterosexual white men are the killers, How does The Philadelphia Inquirer not even cover the World Series?, and How many crimes are connected to the killing of Josh Kruger?
Gates Of Vienna: Report From Sderot: Day 18, Jihad Comes to Sweden, Predators and Prey, Our Brothers in Palestine, The Muslim Underground Surfaces, Part I, and They Just Keep Coming
The Geller Report: California University Offers Extra Credit for Joining Death March Against the Jews, LONDON: Massive Genocidal Death March Against the Jews: Chanting “O Jews, The Armies of Muhammad are Coming!”, Biden Has Blown Up the World, Islamic Atrocities: Baby Was Found in an Oven, Baked to Death by Hamas Terrorists, Czech Defense Minister Jana ?ernochová calls to leave the UN for supporting terrorism, and The Head of Shani Louk, the German Festival Attendee, Found in Gaza
Glenn Reynolds: Welcome To The Party, Pal!
Hogewash: Don’t Know Much About…, Land for Peace? An Eiffel Tower Solar Prominence, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Why Pumpkinhead Perfectly Nails Generational Evil, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Revived Sleeping Saga, After Death Already Year’s Second Biggest Documentary, and When Outrageous Satire Gets Trumped by Hamas Terror
The Lid: Pogromists Posing For Photos, Rashida’s ‘Extensive Fundraising Ties’ To Hamas Activists — Here’s The 411, and Magneto And Other Supporters Of Anti-Israel Terrorism
Legal Insurrection: Israel Widens Efforts in Gaza, as Hamas Hoards Food and Fuel From Civilians, Texas Granted Temp Restraining Order Against Biden Admin Preventing Removal Of Razor Wire At Border, Lincoln Project Co-Founder Infuriates Democrats and NeverTrumpers By Advising Long-Shot Biden Challenger Dean Phillips, Pro-Life Groups Condemn Democrat AGs Letter Supporting ‘Misinformation’ About Pregnancy Centers, Over 100 Colleges and Universities (But No Ivy League Schools) Form Coalition to Stand With Israel Against Hamas, Judge Chutkan Reinstates Trump Gag Order in D.C. Case, and Toxic Atmosphere At Cornell For Jewish Students Is Getting Worse
Nebraska Energy Observer: What is America for mummy? Reformation Sunday, and Here I Stand
Outkick: Women Quit Jiu-Jitsu Tournament After Being Forced To Fight Men, Prompting Association To Change Its Rules, Pat McAfee: ‘We Might Be Looking At Jim Harbaugh’s Last Year As Michigan Head Coach’, WNBA, Las Vegas Aces Silent After Clay Travis Issues Boys High School Challenge, Nike Can’t Help Itself, Releases A New Colin Kaepernick Collection That No One Will Buy, Kansas Upsets #6 Oklahoma In Thriller, Led By Backup Quarterback. Goal Posts Carried Out Of Stadium, YouTube TV Is Lagging And Ruining Everyone’s NFL Sunday, and Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS Is The Official Underwear Of The NBA
Power Line: “Why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?”, Hopeless on Gaza, and The Issue Is Not the Issue
Shark Tank: Donalds – Biden & His Foreign Policy Could Be Compromised
Shot In The Dark: Mitch’s Journalism School 101 Part II, also, No
The Political Hat: Human Trials For Artificial Wombs Begin. Can Lab-Grown Catgirls Be Far Behind?
This Ain’t Hell: Newest mass shooting checks all the lib boxes, Air Force and Space Force raise entry age limit to 42, National Guard delinquent with paying enlistment bonuses, The end is nigh! and Highest military court overturns convictions related to inappropriate messages
Transterrestrial Musings: Aliens, K-12, The Latest On The Trial, and Democrat Jewish Innocence
Victory Girls: Media: Speaker Mike Johnson’s Ancestor Was Also An Election Denier! Kamala Harris On 60 Minutes: Media Still Trying To Make Fetch Happen, and Dagestan Pogrom: The Russian Mob Hunts Down Jews
Volokh Conspiracy: Far-Left Support for Hamas is not an Aberration, Jewish Professors Should Place A Mezuzah On Their Office Doors, and Chemerinsky – “Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now”
Watts Up With That: Permanent California Drought Update, Siemens Energy’s Green Dream Meets Reality: Renewables in Distress, The *cough* evidence *cough* that shows climate change is already impacting our lives, Electric Vehicles: Unveiling the Hidden Costs, and Wrong, Amnesty International, “Climate Change in Mexico” is Not Displacing People
The Federalist: Georgia DA Offers ‘Nothingburger’ Plea Deals To Build Parade Of Witnesses For Later Show Trials, Joe Biden Isn’t ‘Managing’ Or Confronting Problems. Joe Biden Is The Problem, Eventbrite Nuked ‘Protecting Women’s Sports’ Event While Platforming Pro-Hamas Rallies, Antisemitic Attacks Against Jews Are The Media’s New ‘Mostly Peaceful Protests’, If Red States Don’t Want Federal Meddling, They Should Reject Federal Funding, Liberal Jews Have No Reason To Be Surprised By Progressive Antisemitism, and David Weiss’s Office Ignored Thoroughly Vetted Evidence Of Biden Corruption
Mark Steyn: Unreal Estate: Robert Wise and the Tasteful Fright of The Haunting, L-O-V-E, and For Want of a Judge

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While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?

Posted on | October 30, 2023 | Comments Off on While Hamas Supporters Terrorize Jews, Can You Guess What Noah Berlatsky Considers a More Important Menace?

America must beware of “Christofascism,” Berlatsky practically screams. The “white evangelical Christian nationalist tradition” of new House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, must be stopped:

Based on his stated supposedly biblical positions, the Bible in Johnson’s head is a silly, vicious farrago of ignorance and bigotry, and a blueprint for Christofascist tyranny. . . .
[T]he right loves to say we live in a republic not a democracy. And what they mean by that is that authoritarian disenfranchisement is awesome as long as it benefits the party of white biblical Christofascism. . . .

Do you want to read the whole thing? Probably not, but I felt obligated to throw the link in there, just so you could see that I’m not making this up. Does anyone really believe that “Christofascist tyranny” and “authoritarian disenfranchisement” (whatever that means) are eminent dangers to our country, or that Mike Johnson aspires to achieve this?

Readers will recall that we last paid attention to Mr. Berlatsky two weeks ago (“Noah Berlatsky, Who Seems to Be OK With Pedophiles, Sure Does Hate Republicans,” Oct. 9), when Berlatsky sought to persuade his readers that what was really newsworthy was not that Hamas terrorists had slaughtered hundreds of Israelis civilians, but rather the Republican reaction to this massacre. Notice the pattern: No matter what the actual news may be, every day is Attack Republicans Day for Noah Berlatsky.

Why do you think that is? Do you suppose that Berlasky’s monomaniacal fixation on The Right-Wing Christofascist Republican Menace might be related to something that several people have pointed out, namely that Noah Belatsky seems to be OK with pedophiles?

Perhaps this is all just a coincidence. Maybe there could be an innocent explanation for Noah Berlatsky’s enthusiastic defense of “MAPs” (minor-attracted persons), but the problem is he’s never provided such an explanation. No one has ever been able to get Berlatsky to reply to critics who suggest that Berlatsky’s interest in this issue is not coincidental.

Whatever you do, however, don’t ask Noah Berlatsky any questions about this directly, because he doesn’t like it when that happens.



 

Category: Journalism

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Treats

Posted on | October 30, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Treats

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As those of you in the commentariat are well aware by now, last week’s appetizer wasn’t Jewel Staite but SPC Lujan, legendary Army psyops thirst trap. It’s probably just coincidence, but this week KnowYourMeme.com noticed that a lot of dudes (and who knows, probably some gals too) were feasting their eyes on SPC Lujan, those scrumptious IDF ladies, and various other cute military females, and put out an Instagram reel about it. Me, I decided to post some civilian underboob instead, courtesy of @kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Irrational Fear Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Pain Hustlers, Old Dads, The Fall of the House of Usher, MAGA Meadows Flips On Trump, “Bastille”, It Feels Good To Be Gross Together, Eiffel, Slotherhouse, and The Range Rover Iceland Spillway Ad

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Tawny Jordan, Fish Pic Friday – Larissa Rogers, Johnson Elected Speaker, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Mayores, Speaker Race, With Three Out, Nine to Go, The Monday Morning Stimulus, The Men Who Would be Speaker and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for October 27

AVERAGE BUBBA: Rule Five Friday America Edition

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales

Posted on | October 30, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales

— compiled by Wombat-socho

a good week for the Senators, as we took two out of three from Montreal at home and then went to the Mistake By The Lake to take another two out of three from the Tribe. Despite this, we’re 10.5 games behind the A’s, but still holding on to the fourth wild-card slot.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Fly the Curly W flag!

Rule 5 Sunday: Best Wrench Wench And Gun Bunny Too?
Animal Magnetism
Average Bubba
The DaleyGator
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

The Biden Crime Family
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum 

A Death in Detroit
The DaleyGator
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Don’t Lean On Me, Man, Because You Can’t Afford The Ticket
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.23.23
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Detroit Police Say Anti-Semitism Not Motive in Synagogue Leader’s Murder
First Street Journal
EBL
357 Magnum

Remembering St. Crispin’s Day: ‘We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers…’
The Pirate’s Cove
Flappr
EBL
357 Magnum

‘The Powers That Be’: Mike Johnson Elected 56th Speaker of the House
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL

Mass Murder in Maine: At Least 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded, Suspect at Large
The DaleyGator
EBL

Biggest Story of the Week: DOJ Subpoenaed Senate GOP Staff Phones
Okrahead
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.26.23 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.26.23 (Evening Edition)
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

Everybody Ready for Armageddon?
First Street Journal
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.27.23
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending October 28:

  1.  EBL (16)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (9)
  4.  The DaleyGator (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Doom-Scrolling a New Holocaust: TikTok’s Pro-Hamas Propaganda

Posted on | October 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Doom-Scrolling a New Holocaust: TikTok’s Pro-Hamas Propaganda

Have you ever wondered why the Left hates LibsOfTikTok so much? Why did Taylor Lorenz think it was necessary to dox Chaya Raichik? All she does — the whole function of LibsOfTikTok — is reposting left-wing TikTok content to Twitter. How did that make Chaya Raichik a target of such vindictive wrath? Hold that thought for a minute, while I delve into something seemingly unrelated: Julia Steinberg’s recent column at Free Press, “Why My Generation Hates Jews.” Steinberg notes a recent poll in which 48% of 18-to-24-year-olds side with Hamas in the current Middle East conflict. Recounting various incidents on her college campus (she is a student intern at Free Press), Steinberg explains that, in her generation, “the vast majority of us were raised on Instagram and Twitter — our ideas are tweet-length and infographic-sized. And the oppressor/oppressed framework was made for us.” Then she tells us this:

After seeing a thread on X [Twitter] about how TikTok — the preferred search engine for just over half of Gen Z — is an echo chamber for virulently anti-Israel posts and how its algorithm promotes pro-Palestine content, I re-downloaded the app for the first time since Covid to see how bad it really was.
In my foray back into TikTok, I was reminded of how my friends and I would doomscroll on the app. By osmosis, we mindlessly bleated the same talking points served up to us in thirty-second videos. The same critical theory books we read championing “decolonization” and “resistance” had been distilled into the perfect format: the explainer video.
Dipping my toes back in was a wake-up call as to how sinister this information flow has become. (It’s worth noting that TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.)
Within the first minute of scrolling under a search for “Zionism” on TikTok, I saw a “Zionism Explained” video with over 125,000 views. It said that Jews are forbidden by God to have their own state, completely ignoring the fact that the State of Israel is secular. “How did this start? Let’s go back to 1897,” the video instructs. But Jewish history in Israel started thousands of years ago, not in 1897.
When I searched “history” on TikTok, a woman with the “cute freckles and lashes” filter told me and over 80,000 viewers that, in “the biggest plot twist of the century,” Jews are using their ancestors’ “tragedy to justify and inflict another Holocaust.”

Got that? Jews are perpetrating “another Holocaust” — that’s what college kids believe, because TikTok told them so. Everybody knows that TikTok (like YouTube) operates on an algorithm that suggests content based on your previous viewing history. This is why YouTube keeps suggesting that I watch videos about police pursuits, the New England Patriots and classic rock (among my other favorite topics).

Unlike the average 18-to-24-year-old, however, I possess a body of knowledge acquired long before TikTok existed. From an early age, I was an avid reader. After my parents bought us The World Book Encyclopedia as a Christmas gift when I was 8, I read more or less the whole encyclopedia by the time I was 12. As for the history of Israel, I watched the Yom Kippur War as it happened on TV news and read about it in the newspaper when I was 14. So anybody trying to sell me on the idea that the Palestinians (so-called) are victims of “oppression” by Israel is wasting their time — I know better. And, in general, my predisposition toward the written word (as opposed to video content) makes it more difficult for anyone to propagandize me. My body of knowledge is quite broad. I’ve read more Marx than most Marxists have.

Knowledgeable adults use the Internet differently than do uninformed youth, and online content affects the young differently than it does older people. Here’s the Wikipedia definition of “doomscrolling”:

Doomscrolling . . . is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of negative news online. In 2019, a study by the National Academy of Sciences found that doomscrolling can be linked to a decline in mental and physical health. . . .
The term gained popularity in the early 2020s through events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd protests, the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022, all of which have been noted to have exacerbated the practice of doomscrolling. Doomscrolling became widespread among Twitter users during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has also been discussed in relation to the climate crisis.

If you’re an adult, with a job and other grown-up responsibilities, your interaction with online media is unlikely to turn into “doomscrolling” for the simple reason that you don’t have time to wallow in depressing content. But many teenagers have nothing else to do with their time than to stare into the social-media abyss, and guess what? The abyss contains a lot of Jew-haters. Some are “right-wing” neo-Nazi types, but more common nowadays are “progressive” types who have imbibed the radical anti-Israeli worldview of Hamas (and Hezbollah, etc.) and therefore condemn Israel as an “apartheid regime” of “settler colonialism.”

Because of the way the TikTok algorithm works, if you watch one anti-Israel video, it’s going to show you more anti-Israel videos, and so it’s easy for a use to get locked into an online echo chamber, with the algorithm feeding them related content from the same point of view. How was it, after all, that so many teenage girls decided a few years ago that they were “non-binary,” a gender category that strikes most adults as a bad joke? If the “doomscrolling” habit can cause tens of thousands of teenagers to suddenly become transgender, it’s not difficult to figure out why so many college kids nowadays vehemently support the “Palestinian resistance” (i.e., beheading Israeli babies).

Now, think back to those questions I asked about the left wing’s rage against LibsOfTikTok. Why do they hate Chaya Raichik so much? Because she exposed to the larger (adult) world what is being fed into the minds of young TikTok users. Very few people over 40 use the TikTok app, and even if you did download the app, unless you’re in one of those left-wing echo chambers, you’re unlikely to encounter the kind of content featured on LibsOfTikTok. So when Chaya Raichik posts a TikTok video to Twitter showing a public school teacher ranting like a lunatic, this is content you’re not supposed to see. This propaganda isn’t intended for the eyes of parents and other responsible adults who might disagree with the left-wing lunatic’s worldview. The creators of such videos expect to be seen only by people who agree with them, and therefore are spewing out deranged nonsense in an unfiltered way, trying to attract support (and clicks) from like-minded TikTok users. Well, guess what these people are saying about Israel and the “Palestinian resistance”?

Do you think people like this arrived at their beliefs by doing research, reading books? Or are they actually a reflection of the way “doomscrolling” contributes to groupthink? People are literally being programmed — propagandized, indoctrinated, brainwashed — by the algorithm. And then, they regurgitate these beliefs back onto the platform by posting their own videos, so that there’s an endless cycle of consumption and production of this stuff. Before you know it, your kid’s cellphone is crammed full of Jew-hating Hamas propaganda.

People need to wake up and realize what’s happening.



 

Category: Israel

Maine Manhunt Ends as Authorities Find Body of Lewiston Massacre Gunman

Posted on | October 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Maine Manhunt Ends as Authorities Find Body of Lewiston Massacre Gunman

Surveillance video showed gunman at a bowling alley.

Robert R. Card II “was found dead Friday from a self-inflicted gunshot, ending an intensive two-day search that had the state on edge. . . . Card was found at 7:45 p.m. near the Androscoggin River . . . at a recycling center from which Card had been fired.” In addition to updating that information, I also wanted to clarify that the death toll was 18, and not 22, as originally reported — the inaccurate death count repeated here Wednesday (“Mass Murder in Maine: At Least 22 Killed, Dozens Wounded, Suspect at Large”). In breaking news situations like this, the early reports always have to be considered tentative. Twitter gets flooded with unsubstantiated claims, and even reputable news organizations get facts wrong (e.g., NBC News had the death toll at 22 Wednesday night).

This was what I wrote in an update on my Wednesday post:

Various sources are saying that Robert Card is twice divorced, that one of his ex-wives had a restraining order against him, and that he is a registered sex offender. I haven’t been able to find this information in actual news reports from reputable outlets, and with the “fog of war” factor in the immediate aftermath of an incident like this, one should be cautious about such things. But there are enough people saying this stuff on blogs and social media that I thought I’d share it, with the caveat that it’s not officially confirmed.

It turns out that the Internet sleuths had it wrong — the divorced Maine sex offender is Robert W. Card, not Robert R. Card II, but that’s the kind of mistake that often happens in such situations. So my warning about the “fog of war” factor was vindicated. Background on the gunman:

In an interview Thursday with The Daily Beast, Card’s sister-in-law said he has had acute mental health struggles over the past year. Card started wearing powerful hearing aids, but began hearing things like people “bashing” him, including at the bowling alley and Schemengees, and he would “get mad” when he was told the voices were just in his head, according to the interview.
Card graduated from Mount Ararat High School in Topsham in 2001. He studied engineering at the University of Maine from 2001 to 2004 but did not graduate.
He was licensed as an electrician’s helper from 2004 to 2006, with no disciplinary action on his record. It appears his father, Robert R. Card of Bowdoin, was a master electrician, licensed from 1998 to 2024.
A spokesman for the U.S. Army on Thursday confirmed Card’s military status. Bryce Dubee said Card’s rank in the Army Reserve is sergeant first class, and he is a petroleum supply specialist who enlisted in December 2002 and has not been deployed to combat zones.
Dubee said Card has received awards for his service, including the Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and Army Service Ribbon.
A former Army Reserve colleague of Card’s told CNN that Card is a skilled marksman and outdoorsman who was among the best shooters in his Army Reserve unit.
Military commanders in the Army Reserve’s 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment, said they observed Card acting erratically while the unit was training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. Card was taken to the Keller Army Community Hospital there.
Card was taken by police to be evaluated following erratic behavior in July, according to The Associated Press, which spoke to a U.S. official who asked to remain anonymous.
The police bulletin sent to law enforcement after Wednesday night’s shootings in Lewiston noted Card had been at a mental health facility for two weeks this summer, and he had reported “hearing voices and threats to shoot up” the military base. No information was provided about Card’s treatment or diagnosis.
Sagadahoc County court documents indicate Card has an 18-year-old son with a woman he divorced in 2007, with the couple having shared parental responsibilities and rights. The divorce was granted on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. . . .
An additional amendment to the divorce judgment in 2013 ordered “all weapons in either party’s home shall be under lock and key at all times during which they are not being used.”
Card’s criminal record in Maine shows one prior offense: A misdemeanor-level charge of operating under the influence in Topsham in 2007. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 48 hours in jail, and fined $500, which he paid.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, Maine

In The Mailbox: 10.27.23

Posted on | October 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.27.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Old Dads, That Beastie Boys Song Was Not Supposed To Be “No Jews In Brooklyn”, and Tsingtao Beer: Workers Pee In It 
Twitchy: Man Connected To The “Doxxing Truck” Gets SWATted, “This Isn’t An Airport” – Twitter Says Goodbye To David French , and “Just Like Nazi Germany!” Wait, What? The Left Loses Its Mind Over Arrests Of Left-Wing Jewish Protestors
Louder With Crowder: Heavy metal legend gives Israel his full support for using his 80s anthem as a rallying cry, “Pickle” The Drag Queen Kicked Out Of Story Time After Even Los Angeles Parents Have Had Enough, and “I’m dying to f*cking put you in a hospital”
Vox Popoli: Glowy McGlowerson, Service Outage, Clown World Backs Down, and Netanyahu Rolls the Dice
According To Hoyt: Barbarism, Trust, and Citizens of the World
Monster Hunter Nation: They’re Doing it for YOU
Jon Del Arroz: Are There Any Non-Gay Characters At DC Any More?
Stoic Observations: The American Palace

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Australian Racial Politics
American Conservative: The Conservative Movement’s Long Way Home
American Greatness: Lawsuit Claims Biden’s DHS Is Withholding Information on Terror Suspects Caught Crossing the Border
American Thinker: Biden and Islamophobia
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Irrational Fear Friday
Babalu Blog: Egg production in communist Cuba drops by 50%, Cuban military reveals a new medal, and Reports from Cuba: Diaz-Canel lies like a rug
Baldilocks: If You Want To Know What’s Happening Over There
BattleSwarm: HS2: UK’s £100 Billion Rail To Nowhere, also, LinkSwarm For October 27
Behind The Black: Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches military satellite, No launch of Starship/Superheavy until February? Is a recently discovered near Earth asteroid a piece from the Moon? A new global map of the near-surface ice on Mars, and The son of one of the co-founders of Hamas tells it like it is
Cafe Hayek: Responding Further to Fallacies Spread by Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Consequences
Da Tech Guy: Yael Bar tur: Analysis True
Don Surber: Of course Harvard supports terrorism
First Street Journal: World War III Watch: Slouching toward the big one?
Gates Of Vienna: The Winter of Our Discontent, The New Lebanon, Going, Going, Gone? Death to the Hell People! and The Devil Quotes Scripture
The Geller Report: “400 Body Parts”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Mergers and Acquisitions
Hollywood In Toto: Five Nights at Freddy’s Suffers Extreme Identity Crisis, Why Waikiki Is Unlike Any Cinematic Trip to Hawaii, and Reporters Run Cover for Disney’s Dwarf Backpedal
The Lid: Biden Crime Family: 5 News Stories He Hopes You Won’t Notice In A VERY Hectic News Week
Legal Insurrection:  As Investors Lose Interest, Sustainability Funds Don’t Appear to be….Sustainable, “What’s harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon”, Billionaire Leon Cooperman Will No Longer Donate to Columbia U. Over Pro-Hamas Protests, Chicago Neighborhood Residents Explode Over Planned Migrant Camp, U.S. Strikes Two Syria Facilities Linked to Iran After Attacks on American Troops, and IDF Expanding Ground Operations Into Gaza
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Chelsea Gray Says ‘Dumbass’ To Clay Travis, Who Responds With $1 Million WNBA Vs. Boys High School Challenge, NBA Looks For New TV Rights Deal As Viewership Tanks, Security Wouldn’t Allow James Harden To Board 76ers Team Plane, It Sure Sounds Like Jason Kelce Is Gearing Up For Retirement, Nick Saban Calls For In-Helmet Communication Amid Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal, Juan Soto Trade Rumors Intensify – Former Padres Manager Reportedly Wanted Him Gone Last Season, and Riley Gaines Seems Less Welcome At Harvard Than Anti-Israel Contingent
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The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | October 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved

“Amid backlash” is an interesting phrase, as is the euphemistic reference to an “Israel statement.” One might make any number of statements about Israel without finding oneself “amid backlash.” The language in the Harvard Crimson headline, of course, is a sort of journalistic DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) tactic, meant to convince the readership that what’s really wrong — the offense that should inspire outrage — is not that a coalition of student groups signed an open letter endorsing the slaughter of Israeli civilians by Hamas, but rather that these students have been “doxxed.” Let’s quote a bit of this dishonest article by Michelle N. Amponsah (Class of ’26):

Harvard will establish a task force to support students experiencing doxxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel “entirely responsible” for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The new task force will be in operation until Nov. 3, at which point the task force will reassess its efforts to ensure that its work meets student needs, according to an email obtained by The Crimson. The message, dated Tuesday, was sent to doxxed students by Dean of Students Thomas Dunne.
“We are truly grateful for all the tremendous work that students have put forth in supporting each other through this most difficult time, and we appreciate the collaborative spirit in which students, faculty, and staff have come together to repel this repugnant assault on our community,” Dunne wrote.

(Y’know, Dean Dunne, if you want to talk about communities that have suffered a “repugnant assault,” perhaps you should investigate what Hamas did in Kibbutz Be’eri or Kibbutz Kfar Aza, because I’m pretty sure your precious Harvard students have never experienced anything like that.)

Aside from serving as a single point of contact, the task force will communicate proactively with students to share available resources, ensure the coordination of services, hear student concerns and suggestions, and communicate with residential staff and other College administrators.
The formation of the task force comes more than two weeks after more than 30 student organizations drew national backlash for signing onto the controversial statement, which was penned by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee. . . .
In the weeks that followed, students have faced doxxing attacks on websites, social media, and a billboard truck displaying group members’ names and faces and describing them as “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.”

For the sake of clarity — to be sure everyone understands what we are talking about here — let’s quote the “controversial statement” in full:

Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine
We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence.
Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison.
Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.
The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.
Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.
Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.

You see that I have quoted this statement verbatim, complete with the boldface emphasis in the original — screencapped from the student group’s own Facebook page — and I have done so for two reasons: First, because almost no media outlets have quoted the statement in full, but instead keep recycling a few phrases taken out of context; and second, I want everyone to see the full statement so that you cannot disagree when I call this what it actually is: Hamas propaganda.

Gaining admission to Harvard University should guarantee that a student has a high degree of reading comprehension, and sufficient acquaintance with history, current events, etc., to be able to distinguish between an objective, factual description of circumstances, on the one hand, and a tendentious one-sided piece of inflammatory propaganda, on the other.

Is anyone confused about what this Harvard statement is? Readers can quibble over the details about the “open-air prison” of Gaza and the reasons why residents there have been “forced” to live in squalor. As for the general pro-“Palestinian” argument, I’ll refer you to my old buddy Marty Seiff’s book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East (and collect a small commission if you purchase that book through my Amazon Affiliate link). My point is not to argue about the policies of the Israeli government, but rather to make clear that the statement these Harvard students signed could not have been more one-sided and deliberately provocative if it had been written by Hamas itself (which, for all I know, maybe it was). So I’m extremely skeptical of any suggestion that the Harvard students who signed onto this message were merely naïve, or that the “backlash” against them is irrational. As for the claim that the students are victims of “doxxing,” Ace of Spades says:

It’s not doxxing. They signed a public statement.
[Liberals] claim LibsofTikTok “doxxes” people with their posted statements and TikToks, too. No — all she did was expose it to a wider audience than the Circle of Affirmation the poster was hoping for. That’s not making private information public, which is what doxxing is. That’s taking public information and sharing it with more of the public. . . .
The people who have been calling everyone “Nazis” now say it’s “harassment” to be properly identified as “Antisemites.” Got it.

Got it, indeed. What is truly important here is the revelation (or perhaps better to say confirmation) that our “elite” universities are cocoons of extremist left-wing hivemind groupthink, where students are indoctrinated with radicalism so thorough, with so little pushback from any well-informed critic of this monolithic worldview, that they’ll sign onto literal terrorist propaganda and then be shocked to discover that not everyone agrees that Jews deserve to be murdered by Hamas.



 

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