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Something Has Gone Disastrously Wrong With the Criminal Justice System in Ohio

Posted on | March 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Something Has Gone Disastrously Wrong With the Criminal Justice System in Ohio

Say hello to Cortez Turray Larkin, Ohio’s one-man crime wave.

If I were a citizen of Ohio, I would be bombarding my state legislators with emails and telephone calls demanding to know why the state has been unable to keep this lifelong criminal locked up. On Memorial Day 2016, police in Columbus arrested Larkin for shooting a man in the head. Police noted: “One of the gunshots missed the victim & struck the home of a neighbor. Luckily no one was injured inside.” The report also noted that this was the 14th time Larkin had been arrested by Columbus Police. That doesn’t include his arrests in other jurisdictions.

At the time of his Memorial Day 2016 shooting arrest, Larkin was 33 and had only recently been released from an Ohio prison after serving time for charges in Marion County, where he had been arrested in November 2014 and charged with receiving stolen property, falsification and conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon.

Did I mention he shot somebody in the head? The victim somehow survived, but still you might think shooting somebody in the head would be a serious enough crime to put Cortez Larkin away for a long time. But this is Ohio, where apparently it’s impossible to lock anyone up for anything, so by 2018, Larkin was back on the streets. How do I know this? Because he was committing felonies, which is what he does whenever he’s not behind bars. One imagines detectives in Ohio have an easy time solving cases; just ask, “Where was Cortez Larkin when this crime happened?” If he doesn’t have an alibi, he did it.

In January 2018, a Delaware County grand jury indicted Larkin for two felony counts of receiving stolen property, but if you thought these charges would be enough to put this criminal back in prison for a long sentence, you don’t know how useless Ohio’s criminal justice system is.

On January 5 of this year, a state trooper clocked a speeding car near Bowling Green, Ohio. After running the license plate, the trooper learned that the Ford Escape was stolen. The driver of the stolen Ford then led troopers on a 60-mile pursuit all the way down I-75 to Cridersville. Police used “stop sticks” to deflate the tires on the car, but the suspect kept going another 10 miles driving on the rims, and wasn’t stopped until troopers set up a “rolling roadblock” and rammed the Ford off the highway. Another 20 minutes was spent in a standoff before the suspect finally exited the vehicle, at which point troopers learned they had apprehended — you guessed, didn’t you? — Cortez Turray Larkin.

 

You won’t be surprised to learn that, after troopers arrested Larkin, they learned there were “multiple felony warrants out for his arrest.”

Why even bother arresting criminals, if judges just turn them loose?

Next time some liberal starts whining about “mass incarceration,” just cite the example of Cortez Larkin. If this guy can’t be kept in prison, how can anyone claim we have a “mass incarceration” problem?

And if you live in Ohio, please for the love of God contact your state legislators and ask them to do something to stop this madness. Unless Ohio starts locking up habitual offenders for long sentences, nobody’s life or property will be safe. If you can’t keep Cortez Larkin behind bars, what’s the point of even having prisons at all?




 

Category: Crime, Ohio

Something Old, Something New

Posted on | March 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Something Old, Something New

— by Wombat-socho

You might think that with St. Patrick’s Day (or as we Irish like to call it, Amateur Night) coming up, this post would be about Irish authors, books about the various Irish Brigades, and suchlike things. Maybe next year.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Things have slowed up in the tax mines, so I’ve actually been able to get some reading done. The book I’ve been spending most of my time on these past couple of weeks is James Blish’s Cities In Flight, the classic collection of his novels about the Okie cities, entire Earth cities freed from a tyrannical Bureaucratic State by antiagathic drugs and the spindizzy, an antigravity device that can serve as a spaceship drive but is much more effective grouped together to lift an entire city and its industries. Written between 1950 and 1962, the four novels (They Shall Have Stars, A Life For The Stars, Earthman Come Home, and The Triumph Of Time) for the most part deal with the adventures of New York, New York and its mayor, John Amalfi, as they wander through human space doing jobs for various human colonies that don’t yet have enough of an industrial base to do those jobs themselves. They Shall Have Stars is a prelude to these adventures, describing how the last and greatest American engineering project, the Bridge on Jupiter, leads to the invention of the spindizzy and to the founding of the first extrasolar colonies. I personally prefer Earthman Come Home, which pits New York against several historical enemies of humanity: the rump of the Hruntan Empire, the legendary Vegan orbital fort, and finally, the most notorious Okie city of all, hiding in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud. 

Thunder Run is the sixth of Peter Nealen’s Maelstrom Rising series of technothrillers, and it moves the action back to Poland, where apparently the Russians (at least some of them) may be getting more involved in the EU/Poland War, and not in a way that benefits the Poles. Haven’t finished it quite yet, perhaps because it’s a little too close to reality at the moment.

Inferno by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle is an audacious reboot of Dante’s Divine Comedy – well, the first third of it, anyway. Allen Carpentier is an SF writer who winds up in Hell after a stupid drinking bet goes awry, and he spends a good part of the book frustrating his guide by insisting that no, this isn’t really Hell…until he is forced to realize that yes, this is actually Hell, he’s actually in it, but there’s a way out. Along the way we meet all kinds of sinners, some of a kind unknown to Dante Alighieri but plenty that he’d recognize just fine, even if the sins have been slightly updated to keep up with the times. The sequel, Escape From Hell, follows Carpenter* on a second journey through Hell as he tries to guide other repentant sinners out. His companion is Sylvia Plath, who he has to free from the Wood of the Suicides, and they meet more Americans along the way down…including some folks from the first book (and otherwise) who have taken jobs in Hell and seem content to do so.  I find I like the sequel better than I did when it first came out, and wonder if I simply read it too fast to appreciate some of the things that happened. Well, the book (almost) ends with a bang when Allen and Sylvia meet a famous physicist in the Ninth Circle, but all’s well that ends well, and Escape From Hell definitely does. 

What can one say of the mighty P’thok, Gilgamesh of the Trea’nad people, who stole ice cream and cigarettes from the ferocious feral monkey-boys of Terrasol and changed his people forever? What can one say of P’thok, who singlehandedly (and entirely on purpose!) saved Christmas? One can say, buy the P’thok Chronicles and RTWT!  The best part of the book, of course, is that it is merely the introduction to Ralts Bloodthorne’s epic First Contact tale, which is over 400 chapters long at this point and can be found on the r/HFY forum of Reddit. Imagine a space opera full of high technology, evil on a scale barely comprehensible by the human mind, courage, cowardice, deranged humans cosplaying as Orks and Hello Kitty 40K characters and superheroes in real life, one last mad immortal cyborg warrior who just wants to be left alone, not one but several flavors of Berserkers…if Doc Smith, Edmond Hamilton, Keith Laumer, Gene Roddenberry, and Fred Saberhagen had had their brains uploaded to one mighty WordBorg, perhaps they might have produced something like this epic. Gloriously pulpy, loaded with violence both up close & personal as well as big enough to shatter entire stellar systems, and yet occasionally…there is tenderness, love, and tragic sacrifice to be found. I can’t wait for the whole thing to come out as a series of books someday.

*This is not a typo.  

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Rule 5 Sunday: Kalinka Fox

Posted on | March 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Kalinka Fox

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Russian cosplayer and model Christina Fink, better known as Kalinka Fox, is doing pretty well with this sort of thing; she has a Patreon for people to support her work, along with a sizable presence on the internet including her own subforum on Reddit. No OnlyFans, though, apparently she’s not that kind of model. What attracted my interest was this pic of her cosplaying Lola Bunny from Space Jam; apparently the rebooted version of the cartoon has a more “realistic” look in order to satisfy the director, who apparently can’t handle sexy bunny girls, and a lot of artists & cosplayers are striking back by portraying the original, more voluptuous, Lola.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

A little short (on clothes) for a Stormtrooper?

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1288, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Woke Herd Immunity Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Manon Lescaut, Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci, Adriana Lecouvreur, Francesca Da Rimini, Fedora*, Vanessa Ray, Andrea Chenier, and MAGA National Guard.

A View From The Beach: Rachelle Monet, Fish Pic Friday – Mandy Tillman, Hogan Lifts WuFlu Restrictions, Tattoo Thursday, Election 2020: The Party’s Over, Some Wednesday Wetness, CDC Loosens Mask, Durum, The Monday Morning Stimulus Package, and  Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe this week is Christie Brinkley.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

*No, not that one. 

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Why Isn’t Manhattan Underwater Yet?

Posted on | March 14, 2021 | Comments Off on Why Isn’t Manhattan Underwater Yet?

Nearly five years ago — it was September 2016 — New York magazine featured the above article, illustrated by a “speculative rendering showing what a hundred-year storm could briefly do to the Meatpacking District decades from now, when sea levels have risen several feet.”

“Global warming” alarmists have learned to place their dire predictions decades into the future, so that the failure of events to match their predictions cannot be easily demonstrated. Indeed, they have quietly changed the name of the catastrophic scenario from “global warming” to “climate change,” so that any unusual weather event — including blizzards and record-setting cold waves — can be cited as “proof.”

The problem they experience, however, is that they’ve been warning us that the sky is falling for decades now, so that even their long-term predictions can now be demonstrated to be false.

John Nolte quotes a New York Times article warning that a “continuing rise in average global sea level” means that “most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years.”

That was published in 1995 — 26 years ago. Oops.

Turn on the TV. It’s spring break. Kids seem to be having lots of fun at those East Coast beaches we were told would be gone by now.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Global Warming, Science

FMJRA 2.0: Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

Posted on | March 14, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Not going to lie – growing up as an alienated Catholic service brat in the DC suburbs back in the 70s, this song was one I couldn’t relate to. It was like looking at some alien culture whose ways and morals were utterly strange to me, and trying unsuccessfully to figure out what was going on in their heads. Still, it’s a n interesting song, and I’ve come to like it after all these years.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Rule 5 Sunday: Irina Meier
Harsh Brutus
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.08.21
Harsh Brutus
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 03.11.21
Harsh Brutus
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Joy Reid Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
First Street Journal
Harsh Brutus
EBL

R-A-A-A-A-A-CISM!
Harsh Brutus
The Political Hat
Bacon Time
EBL

Blood in the Water: Why Have Democrats Turned Against Andrew Cuomo?
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
A View From The Beach
EBL

XXPEN$IVE: Beverly Hills Lawyer Paid High Price for His ‘Trophy Wife’
EBL
357 Magnum

Tedious Royal Celebrities
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.09.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

What the Princess Said
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 03.10.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Kevin Pudlik, Victim of Injustice?
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.12.21
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

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Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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The Lynching of Derek Chauvin

Posted on | March 13, 2021 | Comments Off on The Lynching of Derek Chauvin

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline:

[Friday] the city of Minneapolis announced a $27 million settlement with the family of George Floyd. The family had sued the city for the alleged wrongful death of Floyd.
The announcement comes as the trial of Derek Chauvin proceeds through its early stages. The court is in the midst of selecting a jury.
Given its timing, the announcement looks to me like an attempt to prevent Chauvin from getting a fair trial, assuming there was ever any chance of him getting one in Minneapolis. But even if I’m wrong in saying that this is the city’s motive, it is almost certainly the effect of its announcement.

Indeed, how can Officer Chauvin expect to be acquitted, if the city has already admitted guilt to the tune of $27 million? But the facts are still the facts, and the fact is George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose.

This trial is about politics, period. Let’s quote Tucker Carlson here:

There are a lot of things going on in the world right now, but we thought this was significant. Jury selection has just begun in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is one of the officers who has been accused of murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last Memorial Day.
Now on one level, this trial is a local crime story, one of many unfolding right now. But of course, it’s also incalculably more than that.
The death of George Floyd changed the United States profoundly and forever. George Floyd, we were told wasn’t simply an individual, he was every African-American in the country. Derek Chauvin wasn’t just a cop, he was the physical embodiment of America’s institutions.
When Chauvin murdered George Floyd, he was doing to one man what our country has done to all African-Americans. Many people told us this, including Joe Biden. . . .
George Floyd murdered because he was black. That’s what they told us. They demanded that we believe that, and if you doubted it in any way, if you had any questions about the facts of the case, then you were effectively as guilty as the racist cop who killed George Floyd.

Watch the whole thing:

 

We will discuss this among the topics on The Other Podcast this week.




 

Category: Crime, Racism

Democrats and the War on ‘Whiteness’

Posted on | March 13, 2021 | Comments Off on Democrats and the War on ‘Whiteness’

Berea College in Kentucky has scheduled an event about “Trumpism and white citizenship as forms of white terrorism enacted against the majority of people living within the borders of the U.S. and beyond.” When this event drew national attention, the college defended the event as a “dialogue . . . essential to understanding racism and moving toward an anti-racist society.” As I explained last fall (“Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet?”), this crusade against whiteness is driven primarily by politics — it’s about electing Democrats, pure and simple.

All this rage about “white supremacy,” “white nationalism,” “white privilege,” “white terrorism.” etc., has erupted for the same reason feminism was all the rage circa 2014-2016. We haven’t heard very much about heteropatriarchy the past couple of years, and why? Because feminism was being promoted in an attempt to help elect Hillary Clinton. When that failed, the activist Left and the Democratic Party brain trust had to figure out what went wrong. After a couple of years of examining exit polls and focus groups — while the “Russian collusion” hoax filled the media space — Democrats returned with the idea that “energizing” black voters by accusing Republicans of racism was their ticket to power.

To debunk this, it is simply necessary to point that, however “racist” Republicans are in 2021, they are certainly no more racist than they were in 2011, 2001, 1991, 1981 or 1971. That is to say, Republicans are no more in league with the “far right” now than they ever were. What has changed in American politics is not the Republican Party’s position on racial issues (or any other issues), but rather the fact that Democrats have shifted the focus of their propaganda campaign.

The problem with promoting anti-white rhetoric as a means to political power is that some people will actually take this seriously. Consider, for example, the case of Georgetown University Law School adjunct professor Sandra Sellers, who got fired for saying this on a Zoom:

“And you know what, I hate to say this, I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks. Happens almost every semester. … And it’s like, ‘Oh, come on.’ You get some really good ones, but there are also usually some that are just plain at the bottom. It drives me crazy.”

Sellers is, I presume, a sincere liberal and the sentiments she expressed were not unsympathetic to her black students. She spoke of the “angst” she felt about the situation. John McWhorter examines this at great length and concludes that what Sellers was referencing was an effect of affirmative action “diversity” quotas at elite schools like Georgetown. In an effort to have a certain percentage of black representation in admissions, these schools are admitting black students whose abilities are disproportionately clustered toward the bottom of the range.

This is an effect of bad policy, which Sellers was discussing with a colleague via Zoom, in what she believed to be a private conversation. No one has demonstrated that Sellers said this because of malicious prejudice. But she might as well have called them “f***ing n****rs” (to quote an Oklahoma basketball announcer) as far as the cancel-culture mob is concerned. She’s fired just the same, you see.

Georgetown refuses to release data on student performance — this is a closely guarded secret, because the facts do not conform to the radical egalitarian worldview that justifies “diversity” quotas. Because elite institutions are concealing the truth about these academic disparities, the beneficiaries of these quotas become disgruntled and even radicalized, lashing out in anger at the “racist” system they blame for their problems.

This brings us to the case of Trinity College professor Johnny Williams. Three years ago, after a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire on Republican congressmen, Williams sparked a firestorm by saying “let them f***ing die” because they are white. Williams was not fire for saying that, and now he’s written an op-ed column attacking “whiteness”:

[C]ontrary to my critics’ beliefs that whiteness is merely an identity — race and whiteness materialize as systemic white racism terroristic actions and practices with very real, tangible, and lethal effects.
Whiteness often goes unnoticed by self-identified whites in ways that divert them from considering their complicity in the daily white terrorism — wars, police and military occupations, poor housing, health, and education — directed at racially oppressed groups. …
Whiteness by its very definition and operation as a key element of white supremacy kills; it is mental and physical terrorism. To end the white terrorism that is directed at racially oppressed people here and in other nations, it is essential that self-identified whites and their whiteness collaborators among the racially oppressed confront their white problem head-on, unencumbered by racial comfort.

The cost to attend Trinity College is $73,920, including room and board.

Why would any white parent pay that kind of money to have their child subjected to such hatred? Fools and their money are soon parted.

We may assume that the parents who send their kids to these elite schools are Democrats, and therefore think it’s worth the price to have their children indoctrinated in the party ideology.




 

Category: Education, Racism

In The Mailbox: 03.12.21

Posted on | March 13, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.12.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Flak Cruiser Week ends with the Biggest Little Cheerleader, USS Reno!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: THE Biggest Failure – London Mayor Sadiq Khan
EBL: Blue Bloods‘ Vanessa Ray
Twitchy: Loudoun County VA Teacher Torches School Board, Dismantles Critical Race Theory – “YOU Are The Face Of Privilege! YOU Do Not Speak For US!”
Louder With Crowder: Dan Crenshaw Slams Stimulus Bill – “Bribing People With Their Own Money”
Vox Popoli: The NBA – Woker & Broker, also, Don’t Jump To Logical Conclusions
According To Hoyt: I Don’t Want To Write This Post, also, No More Silence Now
Monster Hunter Nation: March Update Post
Stoic Observations: Special Effect
Gab News: Addressing Governor Abbott’s Statement About Gab

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: There’s A Dutch Election, Dontcha Know
American Conservative: Here’s The Deal
American Greatness: One Year Later, Vindication For Lockdown Skeptics, also, Biden Says If Americans “Do Their Part”, Maybe They Can Have Cookouts On The 4th Of July
American Power: Gov. Cuomo Says He Won’t Bow To Cancel Culture
American Thinker: My Democrat Friends Are Getting Very Embarrassed, also, What If Alexander Tytler Was Right?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Woke Herd Immunity Friday
Babalu Blog: “An Act Of Repudiation With Music” Is The Official Response To “Patria Y Vida”
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 12
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, How The Blobby Craters On Mars Help Map The Planet’s Existing Accessible Water
Cafe Hayek: Glorious Normalcy! Glorious Florida!
CDR Salamander: What Do You Want Your DepSecDef & Vice Chairman Of The JCS Doing? also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Under The Fedora, also, The Woke In One Paragraph By C.S. Lewis
Don Surber: Milo Says Conversion Therapy Works
First Street Journal: The Credentialed Media Want To Muzzle Glenn Greenwald, also, Killadelphia!
The Geller Report: UAE Announces $10 Billion Fund For Investment In Israel, also, Russia Throttles Twitter Speed In Banned Content Standoff, Threatens To Block Twitter Completely
Hogewash: Why #MeToo Instead Of Manslaughter? also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Holland’s Cherry Missing One Vital Ingredient
The Lid: Lauren Boebert Slams Pelosi Over Capitol Lockdown – “Madam Speaker, Tear Down This Wall”
Legal Insurrection: Berea College Event – “Trumpism & White Citizenship As Forms Of White Terrorism”, also, Lawsuit Alleges Anti-Asian Discrimination Behind Admissions Change At Top-Ranked Virginia High School
Nebraska Energy Observer: “Elite” Indoctrination & How It Will Destroy Us
Outkick: Clay Travis House Judiciary Committee Testimony On Big Tech & Cancel Culture, also, Patrick Mahomes Restructures Contract, Gives Chiefs An Extra $17 Million For The Offseason
Power Line: No Vaccination Against This, also, Minneapolis City Council Sticks It To Chauvin
Shark Tank: Fried’s COVID Comment About DeSantis “Patently Unfair”
Shot In The Dark: A Litmus Test, also, And Just Like Magic
The Political Hat: None More Woke Than Nazis?
This Ain’t Hell: Stolen Valor Charge In Leominster, MA, also, 1st MAW Triggers Twitterati With Photo
Transterrestrial Musings: Disk Disaster Update
Victory Girls: Biden And His Snark Of The Union
Volokh Conspiracy: “(Cleaned Up)” Parenthetical Arrives At SCOTUS
Weasel Zippers: Bad Orange Woman – “We Made A Policy Decision” Knowing It Would Cause Surge In Illegal Immigration, also, Pentagon Goes To War With Fox News
The Federalist: Biden’s Deputy Budget Director Nominee Says Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Necessary “For Racial Justice”, also, Mollie Hemingway Calls Out Corporate Media’s “Appalling” Spin On Biden’s Threats
Mark Steyn: Circling Back

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