In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | March 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.02.21 (Morning Edition)

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in February. Your purchases help keep your favorite burrowing marsupial in coffee and protein bars, and are very much appreciated.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Georgia Homeowners Are Armed
EBL: Andrew Cuomo Is In Trouble, also, Media Panic Alert – Nordic Runes At CPAC
Twitchy: Will Others In Media Follow Molly Jong-Fast’s Lead On Being “Really Embarrassed” By Previous Fawning Coverage Of Governor Cuomo?
Louder With Crowder: Brian Stelter Is Very Upset! Claps Back At Donald Trump Jr. Calling Him A “Genderless Potato”
Vox Popoli: Lockdowns Are Fake Science, also, This Is What One Calls A “Failure Cascade”
Stoic Observations: The Black Substandard

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American Conservative: An Open Letter To President Joe Biden
American Greatness: “The World’s Largest Bookstore” Gets Into The Censorship Business, also, Where Are All The Retractions Of The Brian Sicknick Story?
American Power: Anti-CRT Activist Christopher Rufo Challenges NYT’s Michelle Goldberg To Debate
American Thinker: The Federal Reserve Is Taking Us Into Uncharted, Deadly Waters, also, The Left’s Latest Battleground Is Your Neighborhood
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Former Cuban Military & Security Officers Urge Military Not To Follow Repressive Orders Against The People, also, Violent Repression In Cuba When Protestors Break Into Chants Of “Homeland & Life”
BattleSwarm: Followup On Kerasal Foot Cream, also, NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Demonstrates Punching Back Twice As Hard
Behind The Black: India & Russia Successfully Launch Satellites, also, Biden Fires Boeing From SLS, Gives Job To Acme
Cafe Hayek: A Serious Argument Contains Serious Argumentation
CDR Salamander: The Future Of European Naval Power – On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: A Switch In Time Might Save Nine But Dooms 300 Million, also, The Left Proves Archbishop Chaput’s Maxim Correct
Don Surber: Make Ben & Jerry’s Pay Reparations, also, #NeverTrumper Starts Astroturf Party
First Street Journal: Prison Is For More Than Keeping Bad Guys Off The Streets
The Geller Report: Iran Refuses To Discuss Nuclear Deal With Failure Biden, also, Biden State Department Officer’s Antisemitic Website Exposed
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Supernova 1987A
Hollywood In Toto: Rush To Judgment Director – Reporters Fear Our Film, also, Hollywood Reporter Accidentally Admits Truth About Woke Rules
The Lid: Mad Maxine Waters Libeled Navy Vet As “Dishonorably Discharged” – Now She’s Losing In Court
Legal Insurrection: Kristi Noem – “COVID Didn’t Crush The Economy, Government Crushed The Economy”, also, Hyatt Hotels Push Back On Leftist Boycatt Calls
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, CPAC – The Heavy Hitters
Outkick: Aaron Rodgers Gives $1 Million To Small Businesses, also, MMA’s Colby Covington Jumps All Over Red Chinese “Finger Puppet” LeBron James
Power Line: Kristi Noem At CPAC, also, Rachel Levine – Wanted Or Wanting?
Shark Tank: Roger Stone Fends Off Another Witchhunt
Shot In The Dark: Waiting, As Always, For The Facts
The Political Hat: The Multiracial Fight Against Critical Race Theory
This Ain’t Hell: Make Room For The Ladies, also, Portland “Direct Action” Event Looks Familiar
Transterrestrial Musings: Chinese-American Rights Group Calls CRT “A Hateful Fraud”, also, A Modest Proposal For Republicans
Victory Girls: Obama Says “White Resistance” To Blame For Preventing Slave Reparations
Volokh Conspiracy: The State Of The Legal Struggle Over The CDC Eviction Moratorium
Weasel Zippers: Boston Public Schools Cancel AP Classes For All Students Because Too Many AP Students Are White/Asian, also, School District Cancels Dr. Seuss Over “Racial Undertones”
The Federalist: The Explosion In Queer Sexuality Among Kids Is Not A Natural Trend, also, Seattle Tax Dollars Provide Heroin Pipes, “Booty Bumping Kits” To Homeless Addicts
Mark Steyn: This Ole House, also, Ikiru

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Trump Approved 10,000 National Guard for Jan. 6, But Pelosi Rejected Troops

Posted on | March 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Trump Approved 10,000 National Guard for Jan. 6, But Pelosi Rejected Troops

This should be huge news:

President Donald Trump has confirmed reports he requested 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of the January 6th rally in Washington, D.C., only to be rebuffed by authorities.
Speaking [to] Steve Hilton on “The Revolution,” the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size:

“Everyone said we’ll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to before. I have spoken to big crowds, hundreds of thousands of people, more than that, but hundreds of thousands of people.”

In response, Trump said he “gave the number” to the Department of Defense, insisting that 10,000 members of the National Guard would be needed.
“They took that number, from what I understand, they gave it to people at the Capitol, that is controlled by Pelosi, and I heard they rejected it because they didn’t think it would look good,” added Trump in the interview after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech.
Trump’s comments follow reports that Pelosi discouraged the Sergeant at Arms from deploying the force and an implausible timeline whereby Pelosi approved a request for the National Guard before it was even received by former Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving.
The news confirms reporting from Vanity Fair, mostly ignored by the mainstream media . . .

Read the whole thing. Don’t expect to see this on CNN.

Category: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi

Rule 5 Sunday: Cathryn Li

Posted on | March 1, 2021 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Cathryn Li

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Cathryn Li is a Malaysian model of Chinese ethnicity; she plays the piano, does the social influencing thing, and starred in Special Female Force. a Hong Kong action flick. She also caught a lot of flak for a “body shaming” post on Instagram, which she later explained wasn’t meant for the general public but rather for women who wanted to work in the Asian fashion business. Here she is wearing…well, we’re not sure exactly what it is, but on her it looks good.

Lingerie? Bondage gear? Your guess is as good as mine…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1274, Morning Mistress, & Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Stumbling Into War Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Il Trovatore, Yma Sumac, The Queen Of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Annie Murphy, Ernani, Bad Decisions, La Traviata, Un Ballo In Maschera, and MAGA CPAC 2021

A View From The Beach: Krista Kemp, Fish Pic Friday – There once was a girl from Nantucket – Morgan Matson, Tattoo Thursday, Virginia Bans Balloon Releases, Some Wednesday Wetness, A Modern Harper Valley PTA Story, Thursday Tanlines, There’s (Still) Gold in Them Thar Hills, Your Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Valerie Perrine, and Bacon Time is Dreaming of a Hot Summer.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Police Kill Juan Hernandez

Posted on | February 28, 2021 | Comments Off on Police Kill Juan Hernandez

Don’t expect to see the #Justice4Juan hashtag trending on social media, nor is it likely that the police shooting of Juan Hernandez will give rise to a #LatinoLivesMatter movement. No, I think everyone in America will agree, Juan Hernandez needed killing:

A former Camp Lejeune Marine who was convicted in 2014 for the shooting death of his wife was gunned down by police in Pennsylvania after officers say they witnessed him beating a transgender woman, who later died as a result of her injuries.

(Did you catch that? Just seven years ago, this guy was convicted of murdering his wife, but was already back on the streets where he was in the process of beating a tranny to death when cops killed him. Explain to me again about our “mass incarceration” problem?)

At about 11 a.m. Friday, New Wilmington police were called to a home on South New Castle Street. When officers arrived, they found 33-year-old Juan Carter Hernandez beating 24-year-old Chyna Carrillo with a blunt object. When officers ordered Hernandez to stop, he ignored them and continued beating her, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The officer shot and killed Hernandez at the scene. Carrillo was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, where she died.
The officer who killed Hernandez has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure during the investigation process.
Hernandez was released from prison in North Carolina in 2019 after he pled guilty to second-degree murder in Onslow County Superior Court. He was sentenced to 8-10 years and four months in prison for shooting and killing his 20-year-old wife Kandace Hernandez in their home in Richlands, N.C. on July 20, 2011.
At the time of the 2011 shooting, he was wanted on a federal warrant for desertion from the United States Marine Corps.

No one — absolutely no one — is protesting this guy’s death. However, the family of the wife he killed in 2011 is speaking out:

Tammy Larew, Kandace’s mother, says she was always worried Hernandez would hurt another girlfriend after killing her daughter.
Now that she’s seen news of Chyna Carrillo’s killing, she says her worst fear has come true.
“I just scream. This should not have happened. I knew it was going to happen,” Larew said.
Kandace grew up around Youngstown and began dating Hernandez here.
The couple moved to North Carolina due to his career in the military and got married. . . .
[P]olice had been called to their home several times for domestic disputes.
“Kandace was on the phone with my husband six minutes before she was killed, wanting a bus ticket home,” Larew said.
In July 2011, Hernandez killed Kandace in their home. In court, he pleaded guilty to second degree murder and claimed he reacted in self defense.
But Larew wanted to go to trial.
She thinks Hernandez should’ve served more than eight years in prison.
“They say there wasn’t enough evidence and they were going to get him to take a plea deal, and I did not want that,” Larew said.
She thinks a longer sentence would’ve protected Chyna and other women from Hernandez.
“A few people ask me, ‘Do you feel that you got justice now because he’s gone?’ No. I mean, he’s gone, but he still did what he did to my daughter and to Chyna,” Larew said.

Police say Hernandez knew Carillo and they don’t think it was a “hate crime.” So I guess it was . . . a love crime?

Welcome to 2021. Lots of “social justice” out there, allegedly.

Category: Crime

FMJRA 2.0: High Energy Protons

Posted on | February 28, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: High Energy Protons

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

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

The Media’s Squirrel Patrol
EBL

Arithmetic Is Now ‘White Supremacy’?
EBL
Proof Positive

Philadelphia: Carjack City, U.S.A.
Bacon Time
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Imperial March
Harsh Brutus
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 02.22.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 02.23.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

‘She Frequented the Truck Stop Often’: Murder Exposes Ex-Model’s Sad Decline
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.24.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Why Wasn’t He Already in Jail?
EBL
357 Magnum

Criminal Dies in Minnesota Shootout
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.25.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

The Left’s Tucker Carlson Fixation
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 02.26.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending February 26:

EBL (14)
357 Magnum (10)
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Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!

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In The Mailbox: 02.26.21

Posted on | February 27, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.26.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual deadlines in effect for the usual weekend linkagery.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Violent Criminals In Jail Is Unfair
EBL: National Review And Facebook Hook Up
Twitchy: Sounds Like Talcum X Is Starting To Believe Trump Did A Better Job Than Biden
Louder With Crowder: Clay Travis Has Bad News For Liberals
Vox Popoli: When Will They Learn? also, Google Locking Down Chromium
According To Hoyt: Freedom Of Speech By LawDog
Monster Hunter Nation: I Couldn’t Make It One Day Back On Facebook Without Getting Banned

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Update On That Rush Guy
American Conservative: Laura Ingalls Wilder In The Big Woke Woods
American Greatness: President Trump Planning To Launch New Super PAC, also, The Imaginary Menace Behind Everything Wrong In America
American Power: Effort To Recall Gavin Newsom Taps Into Pandemic Anger
American Thinker: Kavanaugh & Barrett – John Roberts Retreads? also, The Democrats Are Not Governing
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Stumbling Into War Friday
Babalu Blog: Viral Anticommunist Rap By Cuban Artists Has Castro Regime Rattled
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 26
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Virgin Galactic Delays Its Next Suborbital Flight Again
Cafe Hayek: David Henderson On The Economics & Ethics Of Lockdowns
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: A Slightly Depressing Reminder About The Biden Nominations, also, Zilla Update – Down To $900 Needed By 9 AM Monday
Don Surber: DeSantis Flips Off The GOPe In CPAC Speech, also, Rush Limbaugh’s Message
The Geller Report: ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC & NBC Ignore Andrew Cuomo Sex Harassment Claim, also, Amazon Prime Stops Streaming Clarence Thomas Documentary During Black History Month
Hogewash: It All Depends On What You Mean By “Equality”, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Rush To Judgment Shames Media, Twitter – And Us, also, Amazon Cancels Clarence Thomas Documentary, Sparks DVD Sales Frenzy
The Lid: “COVID” Bill Gives $570 Million Gift To Teachers’ Unions
Legal Insurrection: Senate Parliamentarian Kicks $15 Minimum Wage Out Of COVID “Relief” Bill, also, Red China Rushes To Crush Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Voice Of The Anglo-Saxons
Outkick: NFL Denies It’s Reached New Deal With ESPN/ABC, also, Ta-Nehisi Coates To Write Movie About Black Superman
Power Line: Uncle Joe Stares Into The Future, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Says Stephanie Murphy Has No Shot To Beat Rubio
Shot In The Dark: Meet The New Law – Not Remotely The Same As The Old Law
The Political Hat: Cyberpunk Catgirls In Nevada?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, U.S. Launches First Air Strike Under Biden
Transterrestrial Musings: A Space Shanty, also, Propellant Depots
Victory Girls: Rand Paul Questions Transgender HHS Nominee’s Stance On Puberty Blockers
Volokh Conspiracy: After A Year Of Pandemic, State Legislatures Move To Strip Governors Of Emergency Powers
Weasel Zippers: Washington State School Forces Kids Into “Band Pods” Over COVID Fears, also, Joe Biden Repeats Lie That There Was No Trump Vaccination Plan
The Federalist: Amazon Strips Clarence Thomas Documentary From Streaming During Black History Month, also, The Border Surge Is Underway And Sleepy Joe Isn’t Ready
Mark Steyn: Playing Defense, also, Assuming The Position

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The Left’s Tucker Carlson Fixation

Posted on | February 26, 2021 | Comments Off on The Left’s Tucker Carlson Fixation

Tucker Carlson makes a lot of money, so he can afford to live almost anywhere, but lately he’s been living rent-free inside the heads of liberal journalists like Megan Garber of The Atlantic. Some of us can remember when The Atlantic was not a partisan propaganda operation, and it’s sad to them in “skin suit” mode, as Iowahawk would say.

Ever since Carlson rode to the top of the heap at Fox News, he’s had a target on his back, and has manfully stood firm under the scrutiny. And by “scrutiny,” of course, I mean, relentless defamation. Last summer, one of Carlson’s top writers got exposed as a Thought Criminal, and yet the departure of Blake Neff seemed to have no effect on Carlson’s performance. He never flinched, so to speak, and it must be driving his enemies crazy (or crazier, actually, since they were pretty much bonkers to begin with) that nothing they do seems to faze him.

So I glanced at Memeorandum this afternoon and saw a link to Megan Garber’s article, “American Cynicism Has Reached a Breaking Point,” which is . . . something else. What triggered Garber was Carlson’s Tuesday monologue in which he mocked CNN’s Brian Stelter for claiming that the QAnon conspiracy theory is being spread by the “right wing” and “radicalizing Americans.” And let’s just make clear that there is no amount of mockery greater than Brian Stelter deserves. He can never be mocked too much or too often. For some reason, however, this Carlson monologue inspired Megan Garber to write a 3,000-word essay in which she mentions a lot of things that have nothing to do with Tucker Carlson, but never once does she mention the name “Brian Stelter.”

What lies at the heart of Garber’s grievance — other than the fact that Tucker Carlson hasn’t been banished from TV, deplatformed on social media, and generally silenced — is that millions of Americans don’t believe Joe Biden actually won the 2020 election. As I have elsewhere explained, skepticism toward the 2020 election is entirely justified, once you realize that Biden’s combined margin in four states — Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada — adds up to slightly more than 75,000 votes. A little less than 13 million total votes were cast in those four states, which means that the average margin was around 0.6%. Flipping those four states from Biden to Trump would have shifted enough Electoral College votes to re-elect Trump. If you don’t think Democrats could find a way to fabricate an extra 12,000 Biden votes in Georgia or Arizona, you suffer from a deficit of imagination.

So while I certainly do not claim to have specific proof that the presidential election was “rigged,” it seems to me ludicrous for liberals to claim it’s a “conspiracy theory” to doubt the outcome. And that’s what the liberal media’s endless blabbering about QAnon is really about. What they’re saying is, “See? These right-wing kooks believe this bizarre stuff about satanic cannibal pedophiles, which is just slightly more outrageous that believing that Biden didn’t win the election.”

QAnon, in other words, is a special breed of “squirrel.” On the one hand, calling attention to a kooky fringe belief distracts from the real issues surrounding the 2020 election (e.g., universal mail-in balloting as an avenue for fraud) while, on the other hand, it serves as a convenient smear to discredit anyone expressing skepticism toward the result. If it can be shown that some election skeptics are also into QAnon, then it is easy to imply that every election skeptic is a conspiracy theorist.

Megan Garber does not want to give an inch to anyone who doubts the legitimacy of Biden’s election, and therefore she dubs anyone expressing doubt about the result as promoting “The Big Lie”:

Cynicism, at scale, makes democracy’s most basic demand—seeing one another as we are—impossible. And America, at the moment, is saturated with it. Cynicism makes daily appearances on Fox (and on Newsmax, and on One America News Network). It was the molten core of Donald Trump’s presidency, and the only real message Rush Limbaugh had to give. It lurks in the language of QAnon. It lives in the Big Lie. It seethed in the violence of the Capitol insurrection. It has made suspicion an easy sell.

Do you see how easily she slides from one thing to another? Fox News, NewsMax and OANN are all part of the same vast iceberg of right-wing “cynicism,” which connects Trump to Limbaugh to QAnon to “The Big Lie” to the Capitol “insurrection.” So if you ever listened to talk radio, you’re a deluded conspiracy theorist, and if you ever watched NewsMax, you’re complicit in the January 6 “insurrection.” It’s all connected, see?

Two words, my friends: Pepe Silvia.

Do you see how the rage at Tucker Carlson — from Megan Garber, from Brian Stelter, from every other liberal journalist inside whose head Carlson has been living rent-free for months — is driven by fear? If these liberals were really confident in the effectiveness of their influence, if they really believed they were capable of persuasion and that the facts were on their side, why would they care what Tucker Carlson says?

I don’t lose any sleep over the fact that millions of people watch Rachel Maddow. It doesn’t bother me that people I disagree with have TV shows with enormous audiences. As much as I despise the New York Times, I haven’t organized a campaign to get them kicked off Twitter.

What bothers Megan Garber is the haunting fear that most people aren’t really buying what she’s selling. Her fear about the Capitol “insurrection” has little to do with any actual crimes committed by the 800 or so people who trampled down the barricades on January 6. Her fear is based in the knowledge that there are tens of millions of Americans who, while they might not be willing to storm a police barricade, nonetheless have some basic sense of agreement with those who did. These tens of millions of law-abiding citizens might frown on the rowdiness of the mob that rioted at the Capitol, but they harbor profound doubts about the legitimacy of Biden’s election. Garber knows this, and she realizes that it is basically impossible to overcome those doubts. There is no way you’re ever going to convince me that the vote total in Fulton County, Georgia, was legit, and I know that there are many millions who would say the same thing.

You can send a link to this post to Megan Garber on Twitter and ask her: Do I seem stupid? Am I ignorant? Uninformed? Deranged? Am I crazy — and are the many millions of others who agree me also crazy — to suspect that the Magical Mail-In Ballot Bonanza was a pre-planned fraud?

Sweetheart, I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.

Tucker Carlson’s mockery of Stelter annoys people like Megan Garber because she knows we’re all laughing along with Tucker. And in laughing at Stelter, we’re also laughing at anyone who takes him seriously. Now let Megan Garber write another 3,000 words about that.

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