In The Mailbox: 03.18.21

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.18.21

Silicon Valley delenda est.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Tesla Vs. Safety
EBL: Jordan Fuchs, Liar
Twitchy: “Too Late, Degenerate” – Candace Owens Wrecks Cardi B For Trying To Run Away From Posting False Tweets About Owens’ Husband
Louder With Crowder: Freudian Slip? Slow Joe Brainfarts, Calls Kamala “President Harris”
Vox Popoli: Surviving Civil Collapse, also, Tucker 1, U.S. Military 0
Gab News: Transhumanism & The Spiritual Battle For Humanity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Battle Between The Physical & The Spiritual
American Conservative: The Uses And Abuses Of “Woke Capital”
American Greatness: Poll Shows Overwhelming Majority Want Voter ID Laws
American Power: 75-Year-Old Asian Woman Deals Out Street Justice To Would-Be Attacker
American Thinker: Joe BIden – More Heel Than Healer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lockdown News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Economy Is Shifting…Toward Barter
BattleSwarm: TX Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick On Biden’s Border Crisis
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, The Changing Seasons Of Saturn
Cafe Hayek: Scaring Us into The Grip Of Tyrants
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Flash! The Catholic Church & Its Pope Are Still Catholic, also, Report From Louisiana – Stubborn People, Spring Break, & Shreveport Violence
Don Surber: Sellout’s Remorse
First Street Journal: His Holiness Attempts To Be Catholic, also, I Wonder If King Henry VIII Is Smiling About This Someplace
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Black Holes & Star Formation
Hollywood In Toto: Yes, Zack Snyder’s Version Of Justice League Was Worth The Wait, also, Falcon & The Winter Soldier – Woke Work Under Construction
The Lid: 75% Of Likely Voters (Including Democrats) Support Voter ID Laws
Legal Insurrection: Conservative Student Group Strikes Back At Prof Who Accused Them Of Racism, also, DiBlasio Wants NYPD To Scold People For Saying Things That Are Legal But “Not Appropriate”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Do This Now!
Outkick: Deshaun Watson Up To Three Sexual Assault Lawsuits, also, Yankees Say Yankee Stadium Will Allow 20% Of Fans in 2021
Power Line: Battle Lines Being Drawn, also, Chauvin Trial Day 8
Shark Tank: Fried Praises Biden, Says Administration Really Understands The Climate Crisis
Shot In The Dark: Make The Case, also, For Conservative Reasons
The Political Hat: Segregation As Social Justice In Florida
This Ain’t Hell: Army Denies Medals & Insignia To Pardoned Soldier, also, Dancing In The Blood Of Innocents
Transterrestrial Musings: Read It And Weep
Victory Girls: White House Claims Trump To Blame For Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings
Volokh Conspiracy: Chauvin Jury Selection Process Highlights Need To Stop Dumbing Down Juries
Weasel Zippers: Four People On FBI Terror Watchlist Arrested While Trying To Sneak In With Illegals, also, Rand Paul Goes Off On Fauci
The Federalist: The Biden Administration Is Imposing A Media Blackout At The Border, also, OR Health Officials Propose Making Mask Mandates Permanent
Mark Steyn: Racist Hiking & Wokestapo Psychology, also, Testicles Still On Hold

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Atlanta: The ‘Yellow Fever’ Theory

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Of the many kinks, fetishes and perversions with which I’m familiar, the one I’m sure I never suffered is “yellow fever.” It is true that some guys are into that whole “exotic Orient” trip, obsessed with the idea of allegedly “docile” Asian women, but I was never one of those guys.

De gustibus non est disputandum, of course, and whatever floats your boat, but I guess I’m just a regular vanilla kind of guy, and never really understood that kind of racial fetishism. Inevitably, however, in the wake of the Atlanta massage parlor massacre, we get takes like this:

Asian Women Have Always Been
a Deadly Obsession of White Men

Notice the lack of qualifiers there. “Always” white men everywhere have universally been guilty of this “deadly obsession” — or so we are expected to believe because this one guy in Atlanta, who police confirmed frequented Asian massage parlors, went on a murderous rampage.

Your honor, I plead not guilty.

This idea of collective blame is the essence of racism. It is also the negation of the core concept of individual responsibility.

However much benefit so-called “progressives” imagine they can derive from promoting group guilt in the name of Critical Race Theory, I can assure you that the costs will ultimately outweigh whatever short-term political gains are to be made by playing this racial blame-game.

Does it not occur to our friends on the Left that two can play that game, and that the resentments stirred up by identity politics will not always be limited to their intended purpose of “energizing” various ethnic groups to vote for Democrats? If the potential for backlash frightens me — a white guy whose reputation as a right-winger is rather notorious — then how much more should it frighten liberals? Yet they’re like children playing with matches, never thinking they’ll get burned.

As it turns out, we now have extensive testimony that Robert Aaron Long, who killed eight people in his Atlanta rampage, was not motivated by racial hatred and the reason he patronized Asian massage parlors wasn’t “yellow fever.” Rather, his former roommate says, Long considered these venues the “safest” way to cope with his sexual cravings:

Long told his roommates that he’d chosen to go to the Asian massage parlors “not because of the employees’ race, but because he thought the spas were safer than paying for sex elsewhere.”

In other words, if there had been massage parlors with white women offering “happy endings” for the right price, Long might have patronized those establishments but . . . Well, it is what it is.

It’s always easier to deal with facts rather than theories. Speaking of facts, in 2019 (the most recent year for which federal statistics are available), there were 16,425 homicides in the U.S. Do the math, and that’s 45 homicides on an average day, so that these eight murders in Atlanta were less than 20% of the daily total. On the same day, there were more than 35 murders that didn’t get nationwide attention. And yesterday, there another 45 murders, and 45 murders today, and there will be 45 murders tomorrow — on average, I say. There will probably be more than 300 Americans murdered this week, and yet nearly all of those murders will be strictly “local news.” CNN won’t even notice them, and pundits won’t write columns interpreting the political meaning of these deaths.

There is a remarkable selectivity involved in the process of deciding which murders deserve national attention, and you should question the motives of the media in the process of making those choices.

If you’ve got a “deadly obsession” with Asian women, seek psychiatric help, but as for me? Nope. Not guilty, your honor. I rest my case.

Category: Crime, Georgia, Racism

NYPD to Combat Thought Crimes?

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on NYPD to Combat Thought Crimes?

Last year, New York City experienced a 45% increase in murders, and the number of shooting victims doubled. Despite the manifest inability of NYPD to prevent violent crime, however, Mayor Bill De Blasio now wants cops to have “an educating impact on people”:

“I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something you did, that makes people think twice, and we need that. . . .
“Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it’s NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they’ve done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges — that’s another important piece of the puzzle,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio went on to say the NYPD was uniquely equipped to handle such a mission, adding, “One of the things officers are trained to do is to give warnings. If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it’s perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them to say, ‘that was not appropriate, and if you did that on a higher level, that would be a crime.’ I think that has an educating impact on people, I think that has a sobering impact that we need.”

Hey, Mayor, you know what has an “educating impact on people”? Putting them in prison when they commit actual crimes. Maybe focus on that, instead of having cops warn people about being “hurtful.”

Your administration has made it a priority to turn criminals loose — because “social justice” or whatever — with the result that everybody who can afford to rent a U-Haul is leaving New York. You are unquestionably the worst mayor in the history of the city, having accomplished the impossible task of actually being worse than David Dinkins.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)

Category: Crime, New York

Wokies Ruin Everything

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Wokies Ruin Everything

The U.S. military, for example, can’t win wars and its current strategic priorities are transgender troops, maternity flight suits and attacking Tucker Carlson (not necessarily in that order). Meanwhile . . .

“Apparently the concept of ‘take pictures of pretty women in swimsuits’ is now beyond the ability of the converged Sports Illustrated organization.”

Category: Progressivism

Milwaukee: Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Milwaukee: Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Gosh, who could possibly have foreseen this?

A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.
Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

In The Mailbox: 03.17.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.17.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I forgot to wear the traditional black & tan for St. Patrick’s Day. Welp.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Vegas Vic says howdy!

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1294
EBL: Yaphet Kotto & James Levine, RIP
Twitchy: AP Reports Republicans Pouncing On Immigration With Surge In Border Crossings
Louder With Crowder: Media Blackout – Biden Orders Border Patrol To Deny All Press Requests
Vox Popoli: President Greenscreen, also, Another Magic Dirt Fail
Stoic Observations: Why Were Black People Cool?
Gab News: Why The Oligarchs Fear Christianity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Something Is Rotten In The GA SecState’s Office
American Greatness: Until Lambs Become Lions, also, Judge Rules MI Sec State’s Absentee Ballot Order Broke The Law
American Power: Media’s Entire Georgia Narrative Is Fraudulent
American Thinker: Mask Mandates Don’t Save Lives
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Protests In Bolivia As Socialist Government Imprisons Conservative Former Acting President, also, Dreaming Of Freedom In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: State Department Lead Investigator Says Flu Manchu Escaped From Chicom Lab
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans – In Iowa, The Oppressed Fight Back, also, Musk Conforms Goal Of Orbital Starship Flight This Year
Cafe Hayek: You Can’t Make Up Stuff Like This
CDR Salamander: War Horse Or Show Pony?
Da Tech Guy: Common Sense In South Dakota, also, Five Inconvenient Catholic Facts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Why Are Democrat Women Such Wimps? also, Being President Cost Trump $700 Million
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, A Stunning Lack Of Perspective
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Collusion, News, & Truth
Hollywood In Toto: My Son Hunter – Is This The Movie Joe Biden Fears The Most? also, Sebastian Maniscalco Has The Perfect Question For Cancel Culture Scolds
The Lid: Biden’s Latest Illegal Alien Stance Sounds Just Like Trump’s “Inhumane” Policies
Legal Insurrection: DeSantis – FL Will Bar Critical Race Theory From Schools, also, 21 States Sue Over Biden EO Halting Keystone Pipeline
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way 15 – Unconquered
Outkick: Will Candace Owens Actually Take Legal Action Against Cardi B? Yes. also, Mark Levin Talks About Dan Bongino Moving Into Rush’s Old Time Slot, Says He Didn’t Want To Move
Power Line: Understanding The Military’s Attack On Tucker Carlson, also, Literal Fake News From Our Garbage Media
Shark Tank: State Senator Polsky Calls Green New Deal “Political”
Shot In The Dark: Facts Leaking Through, also, Hand To Hand Combat
The Political Hat: I Learned It From You, Leviathan! also, Making Babies Check Their White Privilege
This Ain’t Hell: Jessica Watkins – Decorated Vet With No NDSM? also, Army Promotes Brother Of Impeachment Witness Fired By White House
Transterrestrial Musings: To Kids Who “Identify As White”, also, SLS “Affordability”
Victory Girls: Biden’s Team Wants Trump To Speak After Silencing Him
Volokh Conspiracy: Ohio Challenges Constitutionality Of American Rescue Plan Act
Weasel Zippers: Is Joe Biden A Hologram? also, Russia Cuts Diplomatic Ties, Recalls Ambassador
The Federalist: CA Bill Proposes Removing Police Officers Who Express Religious Or Conservative Beliefs, also, Another Round Of New Baseball Rules Threatens The Game’s Rich History
Mark Steyn: Gabby But Tetchy, also, Fountains Of Woke

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‘This Case Is a Great Example of Why Our Deputies Wear Body Cameras’

Posted on | March 17, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘This Case Is a Great Example of Why Our Deputies Wear Body Cameras’

Say hello to Raymond Glass, the kind of criminal who makes you wish there were more police brutality in America. In 2015, a Florida man named Larkland Harris Jr. “with a long history of violence and who spent six years in state prison” was charged with stabbing Glass outside a Pizza Hut in Flagler County. The report of that crime noted that Glass himself had “an arrest record that includes charges for burglary, grand theft, drug charges, criminal mischief and probation violation.”

Glass survived being stabbed, in part because of life-saving efforts by a Flagler County sheriff’s deputy named Daniel Weaver. So the encounter between Glass and Weaver this week was a reunion of sorts. Weaver saw Glass walking with a woman who had a “no-contact” order against Glass, and pulled over to investigate:

Weaver was familiar with Glass’s history and knew he was on probation and not supposed to be in proximity of a woman Glass was near when the deputy saw him on U.S. 1. and East Palm Street in Bunnell. Weaver also had reports that Glass was living with the woman in a tent in the area, that the woman was 12 weeks pregnant with twins, and that Glass was preventing her from seeking medical treatment.
Glass was upset that Weaver called him over, claiming he was not near the woman. Weaver is disbelieving but courteous, having seen Glass walk with the woman side by side, then told him he’d be calling his probation officer.

Here, watch the video as Glass claims “police brutality”:

Glass: “You can’t tase me!”
Deputy: (Tases him.)

Glass was “charged with Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, Threats to a Law Enforcement Officer, Criminal Mischief over $1,000, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and two counts of Resisting Arrest. He was additionally charged with Violation of Probation for violating the no contact order. He is being held with no bond allowed.” The sheriff’s office issued this statement:

“Our deputies showed great restraint while dealing with this guy who was trying to fight them and continually threatened to kill them,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “He even went so far as to bang his own head into the patrol car while screaming ‘police brutality.’ This case is a great example of why our deputies wear body cameras and why we are implementing dashboard cameras across our fleet of patrol vehicles. We have demonstrated transparency throughout my tenure and our well trained deputies have nothing to hide. It’s also a warning that if you resist you will still go to the Green Roof Inn but with many more charges.”

Nobody rioted. No hashtags. No CNN coverage. Even if the deputy had shot this worthless punk, nobody would have protested.