In The Mailbox: 04.27.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.27.21 (Evening Edition)

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Some things never change.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Black Coed Accused Of White Supremacy
Ammo.com: Nationalism Vs. Patriotism
EBL: Mad Max
Twitchy: “Open WAR Is Upon Us”, also, Gannett Is Sorry They Got Caught Stealth-Editing Stacey Abrams USA TODAY Op-Ed
Louder With Crowder: Man Hits Pink-Masked Antifa So Hard With Frying Pan, It Bongs
Vox Popoli: Red China Attacks Feminism, also, The Hour Is Grave
Stoic Observations: Peasant Morality

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America’s New Justice System, Funded BY Soros & Zuckerberg
American Greatness: Why The MAGA Movement Needs Matt Gaetz In Congress, also, California Gubernatorial Recall Is On For 2021
American Power: Substack! Holy Crap!
American Thinker: Black Rage – It’s All About The Humiliation, also, A New Level Of Depravity & Corruption For NYC
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Second Amendment News
Babalu Blog: Even Cuban Stores That Only Accept Dollars Have Nothing To Sell
BattleSwarm: Austin City Council Continues Its Assault On The APD, also, Texas Gains Two House Seats, CA & NY Lose One Each – With Some Thoughts On Texas Redistricting
Behind The Black: There Are So Many Blacklisted Americans That A Database Exists, also, Dynetics Joins Blue Origin In Whining To NASA About SpaceX Contract
Cafe Hayek: In Appreciation – James M. Buchanan
CDR Salamander: Want To Benchmark Best Tech Practices?
Da Tech Guy: The Post Office Again Shows Why You Shouldn’t Be On Facebook, also, Equity Is Mediocrity
Don Surber: Democrats Worry That Their Steal Won’t Hold
First Street Journal: Black Lives Don’t Matter To The Philadelphia Inquirer Unless They’re Ended By A White Cop
The Geller Report: Almost 50% Of Federal Cases Against Portland Rioters Have Been Dismissed, also, Sky News – “Joe Biden’s Stupidity Is Now A Threat To The West”
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, Moar Johnny Atsign, and I’ll Just Leave This Right Here
Hollywood In Toto: Beatty’s Town & Country Is Even Worse Than You Remember, also, Adam Carolla Says Hollywood Nutjobs Are Ruining The Oscar Franchise
The Lid: John Kerry Has Made A Career Of Violating The Logan Act
Legal Insurrection: “Cancel Culture As It Now Exists…[Is] The Warfare Of Personal Destruction”, also, Law Prof Facing Investigation For Criticizing Chicom Government On His Own Blog
Nebraska Energy Observer: There May Well Be
Outkick: ESPN Lies Again About Black Quarterbacks, also, LeBron Groupies Bombard Cincinnati Bar With Bad Reviews After Owner Drops NBA Games
Power Line: Desolation Row, also, Critical Race Theory Hauled Into Court
Shot In The Dark: The Case We’ve Been Waiting For?
STUMP: Geeking Out – Census Numbers For Reapportionment Released, Let’s Visualize!
The Political Hat: New England Journal Of Medicine Endorses Racial Discrimination In Medicine
This Ain’t Hell: No Means No (Bangs Gavel), also, Indonesian Sub Wreckage Found In 2,750 Feet Of Water, All Hands Lost
Transterrestrial Musings: A Multi-Cultural Approach To Space, also, You Don’t Say
Victory Girls: John Kerry – Once A Traitor, Always A Traitor
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Common Objects Of Their Love”
Weasel Zippers: CDC Says Fully Vaccinated People Don’t Need Masks Outside, also, Border Patrol Union Prez – “Nobody Has Done Worse On Border Security Than Biden”
The Federalist: Parents Rebel After Texas’ #1 School System Tries To Institutionalize Racism, also, 50% Of American Voters Think Kamala Harris Is Unqualified To Be President
Mark Steyn: Beyond Politics, also, The Hundred Years Ago Show

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In The Mailbox: 04.27.21

Posted on | April 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.27.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Your daily pet hygiene advice.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: Something I Do Now
357 Magnum: Too Little, Too Late – Portland Mayor Wants Order
EBL: Never Forget The Armenian Genocide, also, April Pink Moon Rising
Twitchy: Keith Olbermann Flips Out Over Rose McGowan’s Fox News Appearance
Louder With Crowder: Cop Gives Amazing Response To Moron Asking “Are You Gonna Kill Me Like Ma’Khia Bryant?”
Vox Popoli: The Silence Of The Anklebiters, also, The Shilling Of Superstonk
Gab News: Facebook Deletes 120,000-Member Group Where People Posted Stories Of Alleged Adverse Vaccine Reactions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: France Vs. ANZACs
American Conservative: Polyamory’s Bourgeois War On Normality
American Greatness: Kerry Tipped Off Iran About Covert Israeli Ops In Syria, also, The New Anti-Racism Is The Old Racism
American Power: Alan Dershowitz, Case Against The New Censorship
American Thinker: Bush Republicanism Must Go Away, also, How To Starve Big Tech
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Was Jaime Cardinal Ortega An Agent Of Castro’s Interior Ministry?
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For April 23, also, NC Lieutenant Governor Isn’t Having Any Of This Voter Suppression Nonsense
Behind The Black: Bill Nelson Now An Advocate Of Private Commercial Space? also, Red China, Russia Sign Agreement To Build Moon Base
Cafe Hayek: The Age Profile Of COVID’s Victims Is Indeed Relevant
CDR Salamander: The Lessons Of Service Squadron 10 On Midrats, also, The Spy In Your Pocket
Da Tech Guy: To Reign, Divide – This Is The Goal Of Critical Race Theory, also, Race, Race, & More Race To The Bottom Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Why The Oscars Lost Half Their Audience
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Leader Finally Publishes A Picture Of A Criminal Suspect, also, The Credentialed Media Are The Ones Telling Us Black Lives Don’t Matter
The Geller Report: German-Egyptian Scholar Says Arabs Enslaved Africans More Than Anyone Else, also, Hollywood Elite Turns Oscars Into Far-Left Hate Rally Against Cops
Hogewash: An Interesting Connection, The Return Of Johnny Atsign, and Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Mortal Kombat Delivers Exactly What Gamers Want, also, Pandemic Oscars – One Big Yawn
The Lid: Woke Levi Strauss CEO Condemns Georgia Voter Law But Can’t Explain Why It’s Racist
Legal Insurrection: UC Berkeley Seeks Employee To Run “Climate Healing Circles” With “BIPOC” Activists, also, Howard U Students Protest Cutting Of Classics Department
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Happy ANZAC Day!
Outkick: 24-Year LAPD Vet Deon Joseph Asks For Meeting With LeBron James, also, Newspaper Leads With COVID Fear Porn About UFC Event
Power Line: Joe Biden’s Anti-American Foreign Policy, also, The Friends Of John Kerry
Shark Tank: FL Redistricting Will Help GOP, But Not Much
Shot In The Dark: Pondering, also, A Little Concerning
STUMP: Weekend Videos
The Political Hat: Woke Political Propaganda In Santa Clara
This Ain’t Hell: Six More Return, also, Why Look For Work When Uncle Sam Pays Me Not To Work?
Transterrestrial Musings: Connecting The Dots, also, NASA’s Starship Award
Victory Girls: Salon Strikes Again
Volokh Conspiracy: A Sanctuary State Of The Right
Weasel Zippers: Meanwhile In Miami, also, When Kamala Asked Why She’s Not Going To The Border She Says “I’m Not Going To Play Political Games”
The Federalist: Increasingly Woke Oscars Hit All-Time Ratings Low, Lose Half Of Last Year’s Audience, also, Top Ten Sickening Details About How Federal Emplyees Trafficked In Baby Body Parts
Mark Steyn: Gentlemen & Bicyclists, also, Spectre

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Andrew Brown Was a Career Criminal

Posted on | April 27, 2021 | Comments Off on Andrew Brown Was a Career Criminal

The shooting of Andrew Brown by sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, has gotten a lot of national media attention, but I’ve avoided comment on the controversy because we haven’t seen video of the shooting, and therefore cannot evaluate assertions by activists that the shooting was unjustified. Based entirely on descriptions of the shooting, it sounds as if this was one of those situations where, once the first shot was fired, everybody felt a need to start shooting. This is what happens occasionally when you’ve got multiple armed officers on the scene, and Pasquotank County deputies were serving two warrants — a search warrant and also a warrant for Brown’s arrest — at his residence.

We haven’t seen the video and don’t actually know what happened, however, so I will continue to reserve judgment on whether this shooting was legally justified. However, I must object to the way the media is promoting a Sainted Civil Rights Martyr myth around this case.

Andrew Brown dindu nuffin, we are told. He was an innocent victim.

Excuse my French, but this is a steaming pile of bullshit. Andrew Brown was committing crimes his entire life. He never had any other career:

Public records show a history of convictions for drug dealing by Brown, and he was arrested in November 2020 on drug charges.
In 2004, Brown was convicted of speeding to elude arrest. Between 2006 and 2008 he was convicted of multiple misdemeanors for communicating threats and one for violating an order of protection. He had earlier convictions for assault, domestic trespass and wanton injury to person or property, in addition to multiple property and drug crimes.

His first adult arrest was at age 18, and he was busted for drug dealing as recently as six months ago. He “had a criminal rap sheet over 180 pages long and dating back to May 1988.”

The only reason anyone outside of Pasquotank County, North Carolina, is paying attention to this case is because Andrew Brown was black.

Well, like I said, we don’t know what happened that caused the deputies to open fire on Brown during that raid, and I’ll reserve judgment, but don’t expect me to buy any media myths about this BMW-driving dope dealer being some kind of hero, Saint Andrew of the Blessed Rock.

Category: Crime, North Carolina

Drunk Michigan Democrat Invoked Whitmer’s Name During DUI Bust

Posted on | April 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Drunk Michigan Democrat Invoked Whitmer’s Name During DUI Bust

This is not merely “alleged,” it’s on video:

A Michigan state representative fought with paramedics and state police troopers then demanded to call Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in a dashcam video released Saturday.
State Rep. Jewell Jones (D-Inkster) crashed his vehicle April 6 and allegedly assaulted first responders who attempted to assist him and his passenger.
The video appears to show Jones repeatedly defying orders from Michigan State Police troopers and issuing threats. . . .
MIRS News reported the passenger’s “pants were down” as she vomited near the vehicle. The representative’s pants were “partially down” when paramedics arrived at the location on I-96, according to police reports.
The video shows two troopers attempting to work with Jones to obtain his license, which the state representative refused to provide. At that point, they took him to the ground.
“Let me sit up, (N-Word),” Jones demanded of the troopers, one of whom was black.
“I’ll call Gov. Whitmer right now,” Jones allegedly threatened. He continued, “When I call Gretchen, I need y’alls’ IDs and badges.” . . .
“It’s not going to be good for you, I run y’all budget, bro,” Jones said, according to the video. . . .
Michigan State Police say Jones’s blood-alcohol level was .191 — more than double the .08 legal limit.

Get drunk. Drive your car into a ditch. Without pants. That’s basically the Democratic Party platform, right there. And I repeat: It’s on video.

A “rising star” for Democrats.

Category: Democrats, Michigan

Rule 5 Sunday: Alina Becker

Posted on | April 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Alina Becker

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Miss Becker is a cosplayer and model, frequently appearing in Reddit’s r/cosplaygirls subreddit. At first I was tempted to go with this humorous take on NieR: Automata’s 2B, but instead I opted for her portrayal of Neon Genesis Evangelion‘s tragic heroine Misato Katsuragi in her off-duty time.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Off duty.

EBL leads off again this week with Bridge & Tunnel, Lohengrin, Marilyn Monday, La Fanciulla del West, Scapegoat, Simon Boccanegra, Joni Mitchell, Happy Earth Day, Satyagraha, Fidelio, Stowaway, and Dialogues des Carmelites.

At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Taking The High Ground Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

A View From The Beach hauls in Alexis Bledel, Election 2020: Who Will Apologize for the Sicknick Lie?, Fish Pic Friday – Crystal Babson, Sunshine, Your Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, Virginia Both Pass Balloon Bans, Tuesday Tattoos, Oregon, My Oregon: Masks Forever!, Your Monday Morning Stimulus, You Tell ‘Em, Gracie! and DIY Election 2020 Coverage: Going Fishing Edition.

Brian Noggle offers Amber Underwood, while Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Bo Derek.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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The Spring Break Book Post

Posted on | April 25, 2021 | Comments Off on The Spring Break Book Post

— by Wombat-socho

Tax season ended for me on April 14; this was the first time since I started working for H&R Block that I haven’t worked April 15, but to be honest, this season has been enough of a pain in the ass for me that I didn’t mind knocking off a day early…well, a month and a day early, since the season was extended to May 17, but my contract ended on April 16 and I was in no mood to volunteer to work the extended season. Already done my part to keep the Las Vegas hotels afloat this year, thank you very much. Anyhow, before I pitch into the book reviews, a couple of links of interest to folks interested in SF and/or popular culture.
First, Nick Monroe does a thorough demolition of an idiot who blames the poor reception of the disastrous Star Wars sequels on Gamergate, Donald Trump, Q, white supremacy and God knows what all. Long but well worth reading, because this Rewriting Ripley is hardly unique – as those of us who were with the Sad Puppies a few years back can attest.
Secondly, Vox Day’s Arkhaven Comics has launched an alternative to Webtoons, Arktoons. The site aims to be competition not only to Webtoons but to the dying mainstream comics companies, who it certainly has beat on not only quantity of content but quality.
Thirdly, after neglecting the poor thing for far too long, I am updating Wombat’s Bookshelf, which is just what it says on the label: an index to the book reviews I’ve done here. I’ve gotten caught up through the end of 2019, and I should have 2020 and 2021 done by this evening. I invite you to take a look and see if there’s anything you missed; the site includes helpful links not just to the posts but to Amazon for the books reviewed.
Finally, I don’t remember often enough to beat the drum for the National Fantasy Fan Federation, now celebrating its 80th year. In addition to the monthly newsletter, the N3F also publishes eight zines covering just about every aspect of geek culture, with a ton of reviews. Public (non-voting) memberships are free, voting memberships start at $6/year, and all publications come to your email box in PDF format regardless of your membership level. (Disclaimer: I am the treasurer & membership/recruitment-wallah.)
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Probably the best thing I’ve read in the last month or so is the H. Beam Piper Megapack, which includes just about all the SF Piper ever published (except, oddly enough, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen) plus two non-SF novels, Rebel Raider and Murder In The Gunroom. Now, if you have the Ace/Baen anthologies and novels from the 1980s, you already have most of what’s in this book, but for 99 cents it’s still a great deal – and a lot more portable than the paperbacks.

I was not nearly so impressed with Marko Kloos’ Aftershocks, the first in a new series from him. We meet the protagonist as he’s being released from a POW camp, having been on the losing end of an interplanetary war – which somebody seems to want to restart. Regardless of George R.R. Martin’s opinion, this is not nearly as good as Kloos’ Frontlines series; there was nothing about it that made me interested in looking at the sequels, whether or not they’re free through Kindle Unlimited. Now, Orders Of Battle, on the other hand, that’ll be worth the $6 it’ll cost to keep it. The seventh novel in the aforementioned Frontlines series, this tale of a reconnaissance in force against the former colony planet Willoughby, held by the alien Lankies since the beginning of the war, grabs you and drags you in – perhaps because you know the protagonist (and his wife) very well after six books, and perhaps because Kloos is writing a straightforward space opera instead of farting around with skulduggery and secret plots.

That’s something Peter Nealen does a lot better, quite frankly. Took me a while to finish up Thunder Run, which is the sixth in his Maelstrom Rising series, but when I did, it delivered. The story is still with the Triarii Grex Luporum teams in Europe, where the EDC is still trying to put the screws to Poland and the other Eastern European nations who are tired of their supranational shit. Things aren’t going well for the Poles and their fellow rebels, but the EDC isn’t having things all their own way, either. Nealen does a good job of covering everything from tactical combat up to and including the Big Picture, both military and political. I am looking forward to the next book, Area Denial, which is due out in September.

Some of you may remember Moe Lane from his previous life as a political blogger; he’s given that up to blog about books, music, movies, and role-playing games, and is also writing books, like the most excellent Frozen Dreams, Set in a post-apocalyptic Baja California, it’s a fantasy that starts with the premise that magic has returned with rather brutal effects on the America we know and love. Officially, there’s no magic or magicians in New California’s Cin City, but unofficially, the cleaning ladies and stagehands know more than they’ll say about the subject, and that’s a good thing for Shamus Tom Vargas, who’s been Called to Clear a murder case. If you ever wondered what a mashup of noir detective film and urban fantasy was like, well, here’s your chance to find out. An excellent deal at $2.99.

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Category: Books, Zeitgeist

Media: The Enemy of the People

Posted on | April 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Media: The Enemy of the People

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics remarks on Twitter:

Hard to imagine a more divisive, sensational, context-less headline. A textbook example of the media being the enemy of the people.

The story in question is by the Associated Press:

Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America’s streets.
And even then, some of that blood was shed at the hands of law enforcement.
At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against Chauvin on Tuesday. The roll call of the dead is distressing:
A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio.
An oft-arrested man in Escondido, California.
A 42-year-old man in eastern North Carolina. . . .
An unidentified man in San Antonio.
Another man, killed in the same city within hours of the first.
A 31-year-old man in central Massachusetts.
The circumstances surrounding each death differ widely.

Were they engaged in crime? Were they resisting arrest? Did they pose a threat of deadly violence? “Circumstances . . . differ widely,” we are told, but all the Associated Press and the headline writers at the Huffington Post are interested in is the number, with the implication that the lives of innocent Americans everywhere are endangered by the police.

Derek Chauvin’s knee is on all our necks — or so the media arsonists would have us believe. Here’s a point I made just yesterday:

What is the point of issuing pistols to police officers, if they never shoot any criminals? In 2020, about 1,200 suspects were shot to death by cops — a hundred a month — and very few of those shootings could legitimately be considered “controversial.” For every questionable police shooting, there are many dozens of cases that are strictly “local news” because either (a) the suspect was white, and there’s no racial angle to exploit, or (b) the suspect was so flagrantly dangerous not even Ben Crump would object to cops shooting him dead.
My point is that cops shooting bad guys is not a rare event in America, and thank God for that, because the potential of getting shot — the credible threat — is what makes law enforcement effective. Why would anyone cooperate with a police officer otherwise?

What the Associated Press has done is to foster the false impression — a standard trope of BLM propaganda — that suspects who get shot by cops generally don’t deserve to be shot, that police are routinely using deadly force where it is not necessary or lawful. The only purpose this propaganda serves is to encourage more criminals to resist arrest, which will predictably result in more suspects being shot by cops, while at the same time every report of a suspect being killed will result in more riots and more political pressure to reduce law enforcement.

Even if someone is charging at you with a knife, cops can’t shoot them — that’s the madhouse toward which the media seek to lead us.

The journalists responsible for this are truly “the enemy of the people.”

Category: Crime, Media Bias

FMJRA 2.0: And Then I’m Going To Kiss Your Pineapple!

Posted on | April 24, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: And Then I’m Going To Kiss Your Pineapple!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was a beautiful sunny day in Tonopah today, so I opened the kitchen window while I played video games.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Jones v. Pushaw Update
EBL

FBI Knew About Indianapolis Gunman
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
Proof Positive
EBL

Cancel Mob Comes for QB Mac Jones
357 Magnum
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Yes, That Song
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Hane Ame
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Not All Heroes Wear Capes
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.19.21
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

CHAUVIN GUILTY
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.20.21
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

There’s Always a Backstory: Why Was Ma’khia Bryant Living in a Foster Home?
Moonbattery
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

Nika Holbert, the ‘Drug War’ and the Importance of Penalizing Stupidity
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 04.22.21 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive