In The Mailbox: 12.31.20

Posted on | December 31, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.31.20

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The New Year’s Eve safety brief is being provided today by Overlord Manatee.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Does Government Need To Regulate Everything?
Twitchy: Barbara Boxer Explains How Her Objecting To Election Certification in 2004 Is Not At All Like Josh Hawley’s Objection Now
Louder With Crowder: Marco Rubio Backs The Truck Over Dr. Fauci For Lying To The American People
Vox Popoli: AZ Attorney General Briefs Lawsuit, also, DOJ Reverses Course On Election Fraud
Stoic Obseervations: 2020 – A Stoic Retrospective

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Lies, Damned Lies, & Insane Statistics
American Greatness: Racial Revenge Porn Comes For Your Kids, also, Is Trump Really A Spent Political Force?
American Power: Andrew Sullivan Detects Anti-Gay Bigotry
American Thinker: Hey, GOP – This Is Your Do Or Die Moment, also, Without Our Constitution, We’re Under Occupation
Animal Magnetism: Holiday Totty IV
Babalu Blog: Being An Independent Journalist In Cuba Without Dying In The Process
BattleSwarm: Red China Perfidy Update For December 31
Cafe Hayek: And A Presumption Of Government Failure Also
CDR Salamander: CNO Goes Salamander? also, Annus Horribilis’ Top 5
Da Tech Guy: Four Reminders For Republican Congressmen Before The January 6 Vote, also, At The Close Of 2020, Our Constitutional Republic Hangs In The Balance
Don Surber: Media Lies About Russia While Covering For Red China, also, Roger Ebert Reviews 2020
First Street Journal: C’mon Philly, You Can Do It! also, Will The KY General Assembly Stand Up For Our Rights?
The Geller Report: Senate Investigation Finds Obama Administration Knowingly Funded Al-Qaeda Group, also, Harris County – Multiple Ballots, Same Handwriting
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, That Was The Year That Was – Fits 10, 11, & 12
Hollywood In Toto: Why We Didn’t Need A New Cut Of Godfather Part III, also, Why Are Reporters Covering For Hilaria Baldwin’s Epic Con?
JustOneMinute: From Smoot-Hawley To Josh Hawley
The Lid: “National Teacher Of The Year” Awardee Calls For Violence Against Mitch McConnell
Legal Insurrection: Red China Covers Up Research On Coronavirus Origins, also, CDC Reports A Record Low For Positive Flu Tests
Michelle Malkin: 2020 – The Year “Expert” Credibility Died
Nebraska Energy Observer: New Year’s Eve, Finally
Power Line: “You Only Fang Twice”, also, New Years News You Can Use – In Pics!
Shark Tank: Charlie Crist To Challenge DeSantis In 2022?
Shot In The Dark: We’ve Got To Destroy Regular Everyday Life To Save Regular Everyday Life
This Ain’t Hell: First They Came For The Guns, Then They Came For The Fake Guns, also, Chicoms Putting A Bounty On Americans In Afghanistan?
Victory Girls: FDA Charges Craft Distilleries $14,000 For Making Desperately Needed Hand Sanitizer
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Punts Repairman’s Libel Suit Against Twitter
Weasel Zippers: 140 House Republicans Ready To Vote Against Counting Electoral Votes, also, San Francisco Tax Revenue Down 43% Since Lockdowns
The Federalist: Donald Trump Has Been The Most Illuminating President In Decades, also, Democrats Whine That Hawley’s Objections Are “Coup Attempt” After Objecting To Nearly Every GOP Certification This Century
Mark Steyn: The Spanish Imitation, also, Farewell 2020

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Transgender Terrorism: Seattle Antifa Weirdo Charged in Firebombing

Posted on | December 31, 2020 | Comments Off on Transgender Terrorism: Seattle Antifa Weirdo Charged in Firebombing

Crazy People Are Dangerous:

A third militant Antifa has been arrested and charged with arson over a firebombing attack on a Seattle police station.
Jeremy Michael Haines, 34, of Bremerton, Wash., was arrested by Seattle police earlier this month and charged with attempted first-degree arson.
Haines, who is transsexual and is also known by the name “Naomi Cassandra Krell,” has been arrested multiple times this year at violent Antifa protests. But the latest serious felony charge makes her the third suspect arrested over a firebombing attack on an occupied Seattle police station in September.
Haines is accused by the State of Washington of being part of a mob who carried out an organized attempt to burn down the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct on Sept. 1. Ex-realtor Danielle Elizabeth McMillian and Jacob Bennet Greenburg, the two other identified suspects, were arrested and charged in October.
On the night of the attack, around 100 Antifa dressed in black bloc and riot gear gathered at Cal Anderson Park, the location of the previous “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ). They then marched to the adjacent police station where they proceeded to carry out a coordinated firebombing using Molotov cocktails.
According to the criminal complaint, Haines was armed with a baseball bat and used a large umbrella to shield McMillan while she lit the wick of a Molotov cocktail, which was thrown toward the police station but failed to ignite. Antifa use umbrellas to shield themselves and their comrades from CCTV cameras and journalists while in the act of preparing or carrying out criminal activities.
The complaint says that Haines next shielded Greenburg from view, who successfully threw an incendiary device at the East Precinct that ignited into flames.

Who says it’s crazy to believe in “lizard people”?

Compared to what Antifa believes in, that’s relatively sane.

Category: Terrorism, Washington State

In The Mailbox: 12.30.20 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 31, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.30.20 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: One Of The Earliest Recorded Hacks Of Government
EBL: The Art Of The Steal and Dawn Wells, RIP
Twitchy: Jake Tapper Just Wants To Go To Mars And Get Away From Earth & Its People, also, Republicans Pounce!
Louder With Crowder: Mob Of NYC Teens Violently Attack SUV With Old Woman Inside
Vox Popoli: More Votes Than Voters, also, Gamergating Arizona
Stoic Observations: Spacey Music

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: New Year’s Resolution For Men – Read Virgil
American Greatness: DOJ Researcher Releases Study Showing Massive Election Fraud In Georgia & Pennsylvania
American Power: Is Substack The Media Future We Want?
American Thinker: A Call To Arms For All Patriots To Come To The Aid Of Their Country
Animal Magnetism: Holiday Totty III
Babalu Blog: The Stupidity Of “Latinx”
BattleSwarm: Thomas Sowell On White Liberals, also, Austin Mayor Orders No NYE for Bar Owners, Governor Abbott Says “In A Pig’s Eye You Do!”
Cafe Hayek: More On Lockdowns & The Presumption Of Liberty
CDR Salamander: Japan’s Slow Entry Into The Arms Market Begins At Sea
Da Tech Guy: Cowardice, Trump Unrestrained, & A Bad Move Under The Fedora, also, NYT Admits It Published “Fake News”
Don Surber: Why Trump Is The Most Admired Man In America, also, Why They Attack Lincoln
First Street Journal: Government “Remote Education” Orders Driving People To Private Schools
The Geller Report: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) Says He’ll Object To Certification Process, also, McConnell & Pelosi Rumored To Cut Deal Blocking Members From Objecting To Biden
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, That Was The Year That Was – Fits 7, 8, & 9
Hollywood In Toto: The Best Movies Of 2020, also, Cyber Big Brother – Conservatives Silenced While Trump-Deranged Stars Given A Pass
JustOneMinute: The Nashville Bomber Was A Known Wolf?
The Lid: Thousands Of Sex Offenders Now Eligible For Early Parole Thanks To CA Supremes
Legal Insurrection: Gov. Cuomo Prioritizes Addicts Over Elderly For COVID Vaccine, also, Stacey Abrams’ Sister The Federal Judge Blocks Voter Purge In Two Georgia Counties
Nebraska Energy Observer: Thy Will Be Done
Power Line: You’re Talking To A Desperate Man, also, Inside The COVID Pork Bill
Shark Tank: Rep Ted Deutch Wrong About DeSantis’ Mass Vaccination Plan
Shot In The Dark: This Is A Test, also, Essential
STUMP: The Fifth Day Of Christmas 2020 – FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!
This Ain’t Hell: Atlanta City Council Members Seek Funding For Private Police Force, also, Marine Corps Starts Fielding 30,000 Suppressors To Combat Units
Victory Girls: COVID Red Flag Laws Coming To A State Near You
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Robert Pratt Shoots Off His Mouth About Trump’s Pardons
Weasel Zippers: Bill Gates Says COVID Vaccine Might Not Work Now, also, NJ Had More Votes Than Eligible Voters
The Federalist: Teachers Unions Must Never Be Allowed To Ban Kids From An Education Again, also, After Walmart’s Twitter Account Attacks Sen. Hawley, #BoycottWalmart Begins Trending On Twitter
Mark Steyn: Quadrupling Down, also, Countdown To Georgia

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | December 30, 2020 | 1 Comment

Wow, talk about dropping the ball:

More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a Christmas Day bomb in downtown Nashville, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police he was building bombs in a recreational vehicle at his residence, according to documents. But they did not make contact with him, or see inside his RV.
Those revelations, contained in a newly disclosed 2019 incident report, put Nashville’s police chief on the defensive Wednesday as he said his officers did nothing wrong and that they had handled the situation properly. He added that other than a 1970s marijuana-related arrest, Warner was “squeaky clean.”
“I believe the officers did everything they could legally. Maybe they could have followed up more, hindsight is 20/20,” Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference.
Officers were called to Pamela Perry’s Nashville home on Aug. 21, 2019, following a report from her attorney that she was making suicidal threats while sitting on her front porch with firearms, the police department said in a statement.
According to the incident report, when officers arrived, police said she had two unloaded pistols beside her on the porch. She told them the guns belonged to “Tony Warner” and she did not want them in the house any longer. Perry, then 62, was taken for a psychological evaluation after speaking to mental health professionals.
“During that visit, before leaving for the evaluation, Perry told police that her boyfriend was making bombs in an RV,” the report stated.
The report says police went to Warner’s home, about 1 and 1/2 miles (2.4 kilometers) away, but he didn’t answer the door when they knocked repeatedly. They saw the RV but it was in a fenced-off backyard and officers couldn’t see inside the vehicle. They also spotted several security cameras and wires attached to an alarm sign on a front door.
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property,” the police statement said, adding supervisors and detectives were then notified.
“If we could have had more to go off of, it would have been good,” Drake said.
Law enforcement officials did not publicly release the report, which was obtained only after news outlets submitted public records requests. Later, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that Warner’s only arrest was for a 1978 marijuana-related charge.
David Rausch, the TBI’s director, had told reporters earlier this week that Warner was not on their radar. Rausch was flanked by federal and state officials — including Drake — who did not object or amend the statement.
Drake later told reporters Wednesday he didn’t learn of the report until late Sunday evening, but said he believed his officers that they could not smell any explosives and that there was no probable cause for a search warrant.

You can almost — almost — see how this happened. Officers were called to a report that a woman was threatening suicide; she was taken for psychiatric evaluation. So all the police had to go on, in terms of suspicions about a bomb, was what a crazy woman told them. Imagine going to a judge to get a search warrant based on that.

Meanwhile, there’s the “lizard people” angle:

Investigators are exploring several conspiracy theories as potential motives behind the Christmas Day bombing outside an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, including evidence that the bomber believed in lizard people and a so-called reptilian conspiracy, two senior law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Investigators are expected to conclude their crime scene work this week, but it could take several more weeks until they determine the motive of the bomber, Anthony Quinn Warner, who died in the blast.
Since Saturday, authorities have been examining Warner’s digital devices — which an official said includes a significant trove of pictures, videos and writings — looking for any clues to what drove the man to set off a powerful bomb inside his recreational vehicle, which took down communications networks and injured several people in downtown Nashville.
Specifically, investigators are looking into the suspect’s previous trips to an undisclosed location in Tennessee where he would camp out in his recreational vehicle and, according to the suspect’s statements to others, hunt possible aliens, the officials said.
In addition, investigators are aware of statements the suspect made about an internet conspiracy that powerful politicians and Hollywood figures are actually lizards or other reptiles who have extraterrestrial origins and are taking over society, the officials said.

In terms of protecting Americans from terrorist threats, how do you deal with kooks who believe we’re being invaded by “lizard people”? Like, dealing with al-Qaeda or ISIS is certainly a national security challenge, but what are officials supposed to do when every random kook might go off on a deadly rampage? We are at the mercy of deranged nutjobs:

In the wake of an explosion that rocked Nashville last week, Americans are more concerned about domestic terrorism than foreign threats, and many believe the danger has increased during President Trump’s term in office.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of Likely U.S. Voters say domestic terrorism is the greater threat to the United States, compared to 24% who say foreign terrorism is the greater threat.

To repeat what I have said so many times: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

America crushed al-Qaeda. America defeated ISIS.
Kooks who believe in "lizard people"? Not so much. https://t.co/5ORJnjhFtD

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) December 30, 2020

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Dec. 26: Mysterious Explosion in Nashville
Dec. 26: ‘Person of Interest’
Dec. 29: Nashville: ‘Lone Wolf’ Suicide Bomber

Category: Crime, Tennessee, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 12.30.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | December 30, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.30.20 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

I have admit, this is my reaction to 99% of the news these days.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1217
357 Magnum: A Quick Search For Wrong-Address Search Warrants
EBL: Project 86 – From December
Twitchy: Blue-Checked Lefty Trial Lawyer Crowned “King Shithead” For Monstrous Attack On Rep. Luke Letlow’s Death Drom COVID
Louder With Crowder: Alyssa Milano Compares Masks To AR-15s, And It’s All Kinds Of Stupid
Vox Popoli: The Greatest Showman, also, Stay Healthy – Take Vitamin D

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The American System Is One Big Grift
American Greatness: PA GOP Says Election Numbers Don’t Add Up, Certification Of Presidential Results In Error
American Power: Is There Any Solution? also, Dead (Once-Treasured) Diners
American Thinker: Is Nothing Happening, Or Is Trump Channeling Sun Tzu?
Animal Magnetism: Holiday Totty II
Babalu Blog: Castro Regime Sentences Afro-Cuban Activist To Six Years In Prison
BattleSwarm: Dave Barry’s Year-End Review For 2020, also, San Diego Schools Declare War On Learning
Cafe Hayek: Lockdowns & The Presumption of Liberty
CDR Salamander: Having Trouble Seeing The Blog?
Da Tech Guy: When A Bomb Is About To Explode In Your Neighborhood, Do You Call The ACLU, Antifa, Or Black Lives Matter? also, Report From Louisiana – Wuhan Diary
Don Surber: Murdoch Stabs Trump In The Back, also, Biden – Godfather In Chief
First Street Journal: O, Their Precious Little Feelings Are Hurt Again! also, Congratulations, Philadelphia!
The Geller Report: Stacey Abrams’ Sister The Judge Blocks Georgia From Removing 4000 Voters From Election Rolls, also, Even Homer Gets Canceled By Leftist Mob
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, That Was The Year That Was – Fits 4, 5, & 6
Hollywood In Toto: Never Woke Enough – Critics Savage Soul, Wonder Woman 1984, also, Why Star Wars Made A Massive Mistake Hiring Patty Jenkins
JustOneMinute: What Was That All About?
The Lid: Camper Tells Of Abuse At Camp Run By Senate Hopeful Raphael Warnock, also, Iranians Protest Government’s Refusal To Buy COVID Vaccine
Legal Insurrection: MA School Allegedly Bans Homer’s Odyssey, also, WHO Warns Of “Super Gonorrhea”, More Pandemics
Nebraska Energy Observer: Innocents
Power Line: What Trump Gained By Delaying Coronavirus Relief, also, Get Ready For The “Climate Emergency”?
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio Slams Dr. Fauci For Lying About Masks, Herd Immunity
Shot In The Dark: Profiles In Courage, also, You Ain’t A Human Being
The Political Hat: Blogroll Cleanup 2020
This Ain’t Hell: Why Have Men Throughout History In All Cultures Fought To The End? also, Another Tuskegee Airman Passes
Victory Girls: U.S. Appeals Court Hands Cuomo Second Defeat On Religious Gatherings
Volokh Conspiracy: Latest Decision In Palin v. NY Times
Weasel Zippers: Disabled Vet Choked Out & Arrested By Police For Not Wearing Mask, also, Meme – Dancing Nurses Are Like Dancing At Funerals
The Federalist: What Big Tech Didn’t Want You To See On The Federalist In 2020, also, A National Popular Vote Won’t Fix The Electoral College, But Smaller Government Will
Mark Steyn: Such A Cold Finger, also, Lost In A Lost Year

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Wealthy Celebrities Flock to Georgia to Help Elect Two Left-Wing Democrats

Posted on | December 30, 2020 | 1 Comment

If you believe the polls, it’s neck-and-neck in the two Senate runoff elections next week in Georgia. Republican Sen. David Perdue appears to be holding his own against Joel Osoff while we are told that Raphael Warnock (D-Racist) is edging ahead of Kelly Loeffler. Of course, the polls are garbage and nobody trusts them, and Democrats are probably going to steal the thing with truckloads of phony mail-in ballots anyway.

Meanwhile, Hollywood is going all-in to turn Georgia blue:

Georgia is ground zero in the battle for the balance of power in Washington, DC, as control of the U.S. Senate now hinges on the outcome of the two Senate runoff races in the Peach State. With the Senate majority leadership within his reach, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently declared, “Now we take Georgia, and then we change America.”
More than 50 Hollywood celebrities have tried to make that a reality for Schumer, mobilizing to raise money and pump up enthusiasm for Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Using their star power to attract donor dollars, they have put their Hollywood imprint on the Georgia races in the hopes of flipping the Senate on January 5.
The vast majority of these celebrities have never lived in Georgia and have no personal connection to the state — except for the TV or movie roles that require them to occasionally film there. As Breitbart News recently reported, Ossoff raised nearly six times more in California than he did in Georgia. . . .

Call me crazy, but I’m not sure Amy Schumer’s endorsement is going to move the needle much with swing voters in Georgia.

Category: Election, Georgia, Senate

Nashville: ‘Lone Wolf’ Suicide Bomber

Posted on | December 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Nashville: ‘Lone Wolf’ Suicide Bomber

Police have identified Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, as the perpetrator of the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville. It is believed that Warner acted alone and that he died in the blast:

Metro Nashville Police Department Spokesman Don Aaron confirmed Warner’s identity to the Associated Press on Sunday. He did not provide any more details. However, Warner had experience with electronics and alarms, according to public records. . . .
It appears to be a “lone wolf” situation, but the motive remains under investigation. Authorities do not believe the city of Nashville is in danger.
Separately, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press that federal investigators have started examining Warner’s digital footprint and financial history.

The Internet has been buzzing with two slightly separate but related theories of Warner’s motive, based on the fact that the target of his attack seems to have been the AT&T facility in downtown Nashville. Either (a) Warner was “paranoid” about 5G technology or (b) Warner was concerned about AT&T’s (very real) involvement in federal surveillance.

Keep in mind that both of these theories are just speculation. We do not yet know if Warner left behind any kind of “manifesto” or some other indication of his motive. Warner’s father, who died in 2011, “once worked for BellSouth communications before it merged with AT&T,” according to investigators, so it is possible that Warner had some kind of personal grievance against the company. Much speculation, however, has focused on conspiracy theories about 5G technology:

Law enforcement and intelligence agencies warned in May of this year about escalating threats targeting 5G communications infrastructure, a possible motive now being considered by investigators looking into the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, according to government documents reviewed by Yahoo News. . . .
5G is the latest standard for broadband cellular networks, which is expected to dramatically increase data transfer speeds. . . .
A May 14 Joint Intelligence Bulletin produced by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center warns of social media posts calling on people to “target critical infrastructure including cell towers, locations associated with the electric power grid, and other sites associated with perceived impending government action against citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic” and referring to past attacks in Europe and the United States on cell towers.
The bulletin notes that there have been dozens of recent attacks on cell towers, particularly those associated with 5G service, in Western Europe. While there have been fewer such attacks in the United States — just six, according to the bulletin — there have been increasing online calls for such attacks, according to the document. . . .
“Online calls for targeting have focused particularly on those facilities believed to be equipped with 5G wireless technologies, probably in part because of the recent proliferation of conspiracy theories that falsely link the COVID-19 pandemic spread with 5G infrastructure development, including beliefs that 5G towers cause the spread of COVID-19 or weaken the immune system allowing transmission of COVID-19,” the document says.
The intelligence bulletin also says that some of the calls for attacks on critical infrastructure sites, like those connected to 5G, appear to come from white supremacists.

Oh, of course, they had to throw in the “white supremacist” angle, despite the complete lack of evidence connecting Warner to any such ideology, and despite the fact that 5G conspiracy theories are also rampant in minority communities and among left-wing anarchist types.

Beyond mere speculation and politically motivated finger-pointing, however, there is the reality — not a theory, but a fact — that AT&T is working with the National Security Agency.

AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale

That’s a 2015 headline from the New York Times which, so far as I know, is not a right-wing “white supremacist” conspiracy theory site.

The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities

That’s a 2018 headline from the Intercept, and although Nashville was not named as a site of one of these “NSA spy hubs,” there’s this:

The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.” It is a collaboration that dates back decades.

So if you’re concerned about federal surveillance, you would certainly consider AT&T one of the bad guys. But it’s best to avoid any kind of potentially paranoia-inducing information if you’re concerned about your mental health. That is to say, if we are being targeted for warrantless surveillance by an all-powerful “Them” — Big Brother, the Deep State, rogue agents trampling on our constitutional rights — I don’t want to think too much about it, or it might drive me completely bonkers.

“How to Maintain Your Sanity” — trust me, I’m an expert.