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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Woman in Viral Rant Blames QAnon, Mental Illness

Posted on | December 1, 2020 | 3 Comments

Melissa Rein Lively was a successful Phoenix businesswoman, CEO of her own marketing and public relations firm, The Brand Consortium. She “had developed a reputation for living a posh lifestyle and organizing red carpet events, business openings, fashion shows and charity events in Arizona.” But that was before she cracked up and “went viral” in July and recorded video of herself destroying a COVID-19 mask display at a Target store. In social-media posts, Lively claimed to be spokeswoman for QAnon. Eventually, her husband called 911 and she got hauled off for psychiatric treatment. “I was canceled. My business was gone overnight”:

“I got sucked into QAnon because I was desperate, lonely, scared, and searching for answers,” she said.
She says people around her were telling her to “snap out of it,” but her obsession only grew deeper.
“It’s so crazy, this cult ideology it has. The more you read into it, the more you freak out. Somebody in my mental capacity, who was having a traumatic experience, it was the fuel to the fire and set the whole thing off,” Lively said.

She’s better now. She has been diagnosed with PTSD and bipolar disorder, but a diagnosis is just a fancy label for “crazy.”

And that’s OK. You can be crazy and functional. You’ve just got to learn how to keep the craziness under control. There are a lot of seemingly normal people out there barely hanging onto sanity, who may be just one bad day away from going completely bonkers. Plan accordingly.




 

Category: Arizona

The Liberal Extinction Project

Posted on | December 1, 2020 | 2 Comments

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen:

People worried about the climate crisis are deciding not to have children because of fears that their offspring would have to struggle through a climate apocalypse, according to the first academic study of the issue.
The researchers surveyed 600 people aged 27 to 45 who were already factoring climate concerns into their reproductive choices and found 96% were very or extremely concerned about the wellbeing of their potential future children in a climate-changed world. One 27-year-old woman said: “I feel like I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world and force them to try and survive what may be apocalyptic conditions.”
These views were based on very pessimistic assessments of the impact of global heating on the world, the researchers said. One respondent, for example, said it would “rival world war one in its sheer terror”. The research also found that some people who were already parents expressed regret over having their children.
Having a child also potentially means that person going on to produce a lifetime of carbon emissions that contribute to the climate emergency, but only 60% of those surveyed were very concerned about this carbon footprint.
“The fears about the carbon footprint of having kids tended to be abstract and dry,” said Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, who led the study. “But the fears about the lives of existing or potential children were really deep and emotional. It was often heartbreaking to pore through the responses — a lot of people really poured their hearts out.” . . .
The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, found no statistically significant difference between the views of women and men, though women made up three-quarters of respondents. A 31-year-old woman said: “Climate change is the sole factor for me in deciding not to have biological children. I don’t want to birth children into a dying world [though] I dearly want to be a mother.” . . .
The study is the first peer-reviewed academic study of the issue and analysed a large group of concerned people. The survey was done anonymously so people could express themselves freely. . . .
The study indicated that climate-related fears for their children’s lives were rooted in a deeply pessimistic view of the future. Of the 400 respondents who offered a vision of the future, 92.3% were negative, 5.6% were mixed or neutral, and just 0.6% were positive. . . .
However, he said further research was needed on a more diverse group of people and in other parts of the world. The self-selecting group in the study all lived in the US and were largely white, more highly educated and liberal.
Previously, opinion polls of the general public indicated people were connecting the climate crisis and reproduction, with one poll in 2020 finding that among 18- to 44-year-old US citizens without children, 14% cited climate change as a “major reason” for not having children.

Everyone old enough to remember Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” hoax should realize that “climate change” is simply the latest iteration of this neo-Malthusian doom-and-gloom propaganda.




 

Category: Contraceptive Culture, Global Warming

In The Mailbox: 11.30.20

Posted on | December 1, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.30.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Speaks for itself

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: COVID-19 Lockdowns – Liberty & Science
357 Magnum: So How Is That “Affordable Bail” Program Working Out?
EBL: Last Of The Mohicans
Twitchy: “Do Not Give Them The Calm They Seek”
Louder With Crowder: Why More Than 150,000 Michigan Votes Are Sus
Vox Popoli: “Biggest Sting Op In U.S. History”, also, This Is Civil War
Stoic Observations: Where Have All The Grownups Gone?
The Rageaholic: Body Bags For Blackpills

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Most Important Thing You Can Do In This Time
American Conservative: Will Trump Be Prosecuted?
American Greatness: Why Our Universities Have Failed, also, Cybersecurity Expert – Dominion Was Connected To Internet On Election Day, Communicated Overseas
American Power: Infographic – The Four Year Long Campaign Against Trump
American Thinker: Did President Trump Spring An Election Night Trap On Treasonous Democrats? also, The Hijacking Of The 2020 Election & The Hate America Strategy
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Castro Dictatorship Cuts Electricity, Uses Pepper Spray On Protesters Outside Ministry Of Culture, also, Montreal Protesters Call For Canadian Boycott Of Cuba’s Apartheid Tourist Industry
BattleSwarm: Sir, Any Firearms In The Vehicle? also, 70 Years Ago – The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir
Cafe Hayek: More Ivor Cummins On COVID Derangement Syndrome, also, Hygiene Socialism
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Nate Silver Hardest Hit, also, Analyzing Mattis’ Comments On Red China
Don Surber: Term II – The Gloves Come Off, also, Down Ballot Races Prove Democrats Cheated
First Street Journal: The Weight Of The State Is About To Fall On Andrew Cooperrider, also, Gov. Beshear Continues To Try Restricting Freedom Of Religion
Fred On Everything: Red China – A Cold Shower
The Geller Report: Dem Rep Tlaib Calls For Israel’s Destruction, also, President Trump Threatens To Declassify “Devastating” Documents About Democrats
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Nothing To See Here, Move Along
Hollywood In Toto: Why Peter Weir’s Witness Remains “A Kind Of Miracle”, also, Kristen Stewart Ties Herself In Knots With Woke Casting Platitudes
JustOneMinute: Kick Like A Girl
The Lid: Joe Biden’s Putting That Old Anti-Israel Band Back Together
Legal Insurrection: Candace Owens Takes On Facebook “Fact Checker” PolitiFact And Wins, also, NY22 GOP Challenger Claudia Tenney Moves Back Into Lead BY 13 Votes After Final Recount
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way – Two Pooh Sticks
Power Line: Police Chief Escapes From Washington DC, also, David Horowitz – Where We Are & What We Face
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds To Join House “Freedom Force”
Shot In The Dark: Blue Fragility, Part MMXMLCII – Pious Fury!
STUMP: COVID Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: When The Establishment Protects The Anti-Establishment Revolutionaries
This Ain’t Hell: I Thought Social Workers Were The Answer? also, The Cowards Of Broward Don’t Just Leave Children To Die
Victory Girls: Trumpism Must Be Purged, Say Former Obama Counsels, also, Jen Psaki Has A Problem With The Truth
Volokh Conspiracy: The Paranoid Style Of American Politics, Presidential Election Edition
Weasel Zippers: One Third Of NJ’s Small Businesses Are Gone Forever, also, Democrats Face Accusations Of Fraud In NY22 After Democrat Judge Miraculously Finds Enough Ballots To Erase 22,000 Vote Lead
The Federalist: The #NotMyPresident Crowd Needs To Sit Down & Shut Up, also, Apple, Nike, & Coca-Cola Lobby To Preserve Red China’s Slavery Of Uighurs
Mark Steyn: The Shenanigan Express, also, Luck Be A Lady

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Who Commits Crime?

Posted on | December 1, 2020 | 1 Comment

Her neck tattoo tells you everything you need to know about her.

Her name is Fantasia Shantal Rivera, and “Beautiful Disaster” is a rather comprehensive summary of her life. This was apparent in May 2019, when she was sentenced to five years in prison:

A woman present at several shootings and stabbings over the past decade was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a handgun charge.
Washington County Circuit Court Judge Dana Moylan Wright sentenced 25-year-old Fantasia Shantal Rivera to 15 years, with 10 years suspended, after she pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun by a felon.
Five years is a mandatory minimum during which Rivera will not be eligible for parole. She will be on supervised probation for five years after her release.
Wright also gave Rivera a concurrent sentence of about two years for violating probation on a 2012 robbery conviction.
“Ironically, you’ve served most of that sentence” because of previous probation violations, Wright told Rivera.
That conviction was for a strong-arm robbery in which Rivera participated. Her original sentence was eight years, with all but two years suspended.
“Obviously, we are all familiar with Ms. Rivera,” Assistant State’s Attorney Christopher McCormack said during the hearing.
On the afternoon of Jan. 21, a woman told Hagerstown police Rivera, her upstairs neighbor at 201 E. Washington St., threatened her with a handgun, McCormack said.
Rivera was searched and had no weapon, but allowed police to search her apartment. A loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun was found in a closet underneath some clothing, McCormack said.
Defense attorney Loren Villa told Wright that Rivera has a 1-year-old child and is pregnant with a second child.
“The father of the child passed away,” Villa said, referring to Christopher Turner, 27, who disappeared in January and was found a few days later in West Virginia, shot dead and wrapped in an artificial Christmas tree bag.
Authorities charged several people in connection with Turner’s death and with removing drugs from his body and removing his body from the crime scene in a Hagerstown apartment.
“If she didn’t have bad luck, she’d have no luck at all,” Villa told Wright. Rivera’s connection to past violent crimes was sometimes incidental, she said.
“I was a witness to one of the shootings,” Villa said, referring to a man being wounded as he walked with Rivera outside the former Office of the Public Defender.
“Imagine the amount of trauma she’s seen,” said Villa. She asked that the probation violation sentence run concurrently with her other sentence.
“There’s nothing wrong with a boring life,” Wright said, warning Rivera to change her lifestyle for the sake of her children.
“If you’re going back to what you’ve been doing, just turn your kids over” to their grandparents, Wright said.
Members of Rivera’s and Turner’s families sat together during the hearing.
Rivera was present at a number of shootings and stabbings in the past, according to police reports, including:
• On Sept. 27, 2010, Rivera was present when a toddler was shot and paralyzed in a Little Elliott Drive apartment. The child apparently shot himself with a stolen handgun, which Rivera then hid in a playground.
• Wesley Colin Williams was shot and wounded on Jonathan Street on Oct. 17, 2011, as he was walking with Rivera, police said.
• On June 24, 2012, Antonio Joyner of Walkersville, Md., was fatally shot in a Guilford Avenue house. A male friend of Rivera’s was charged with murder, but the charges were later dropped. Hagerstown police said Rivera was present.
• Shakur Thornton, 17, was fatally stabbed in a fight on West Franklin Street on March 29, 2013. Rivera was present, police said.

If people have a remarkable habit of getting shot in your vicinity, consider the possibility that you’re hanging out with bad people. Or as an alternative possibility, consider maybe you are a bad person. But let’s talk about how the man who sired Rivera’s child died:

Three people have been arrested in connection with the homicide of a 27-year-old man who went missing last month, police said Monday.
Christopher Turner was reported missing January 23 at around 4 p.m. to Hagerstown police, and had last been heard from by family on January 20 and was known to be in the Hagerstown area.
His body was found in Berkeley County, West Virginia on January 30.
19-year-old Antonio Cane Arana of Jefferson, Md., was taken into custody in Frederick, Md. on February 17 at around 9 a.m.
19-year-old Dakota Daniel Paugh of Hagerstown, Md. was taken into custody in Washington, D.C. on February 17 at around 9:25 a.m.
21-year-old Erica Shatiena Earl of Hagerstown, Md. was taken into custody in Jacksonville, Florida on February 15 at around 12:30 p.m.

How did Fantasia Rivera’s baby-daddy meet his violent demise? He “was lured to an apartment in the 1000 block of West Washington Street with the promise of a sexual encounter with two women”:

Turner was shot dead in the apartment, and drugs were stolen from his body. His body was found Jan. 30 wrapped in the packaging for an artificial Christmas tree and dumped off a bridge into a ravine in Berkeley County, W.Va.

Let’s dig a little deeper into Fantasia Rivera’s past. Remember she was present at the 2011 shooting of Wesley Colin Williams? That was apparently in retaliation for the previous stabbing of Malik Anwar Scott. The man who shot Williams was Dennis S. Marshall Jr.:

Williams was charged with attempted murder, but later pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, court records said. Marshall pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder in the shooting of Williams, court records said.
In February 2012, Scott was charged with taking part in a home invasion robbery in Hagerstown, published reports said. Later that year, he pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and was sentenced to eight years in prison with 6 1/2 years suspended, court records said.

In 2014, Scott was sentenced to five years in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine. If you think that getting stabbed and being sentenced to prison would cause Scott to change his ways, you might be an optimist. Or a fool. Because, of course not:

A report of shots fired on Saturday [July 22, 2019] resulted in a Hagerstown teenager being charged as an adult in the shooting, and the arrest of two of the alleged victims on warrants from a May armed robbery.
Anthony De’Jhen Byrd, 17, of Berger Avenue was charged with first-degree assault, using a handgun in a crime of violence, using a dangerous weapon with intent to injure and other offenses. . . .
The investigation also led to the arrests of two Hagerstown men, Malik Anwar Scott and Dennis Steven Marshall Jr., both 24, on warrants for a May 14 armed robbery at Motel 6 on Massey Boulevard. . . .
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office investigated the hotel robbery in which a woman, Courtney Ruppenthal, allegedly conspired with two or more men to rob the hotel room occupants. She was inside the room and opened the doors to the intruders, one of whom was armed with a semiautomatic rifle.
Scott is also charged in a May 12 assault in which three males — one armed with a handgun — approached a man in an automobile on Maryland Avenue, broke out a window and began beating him, court records said.

So, after getting out of prison for his previous crimes, Scott was soon wanted on a warrant for robbing the Motel 6, and had also been charged in an recent assault. It’s as if he never did anything else in his life except perpetrate crimes. And let’s talk about the Motel 6 case:

The last of three people involved in a 2019 robbery at Motel 6 pleaded guilty Tuesday [March 10, 2020] to conspiracy to commit robbery.
Washington County Circuit Court Judge Brett R. Wilson ordered a presentence investigation, which will delay the sentencing of Latrell Robert Taylor for several weeks.
Taylor was the third person to enter a plea agreement in the May 14, 2019, robbery at the motel on Massey Boulevard.
Courtney Miranda Ruppenthal was sentenced in January to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery. In 2018, she had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery for her involvement in a pair of holdups in 2017.
She testified for the state against co-defendant Dennis Von Gundy in her previous case. Gundy is serving a 30-year sentence.
In February, Dennis Steven Marshall Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for his role in the robbery and was sentenced to five years in prison. However, Marshall was facing a parole retake for an attempted murder conviction for shooting a man in 2011.
Ruppenthal had been invited to the motel room by the two victims, according to charging documents. While there, she was texting someone and left the door ajar, allowing two men to barge into the room, one of them armed with a rifle.
The two victims were assaulted and their personal belongings were stolen, and Ruppenthal left with the two intruders, charging documents said.
Marshall and Taylor were later identified as the two robbers, and the weapon was recovered, Deputy State’s Attorney Gina Cirincion told Wilson.

On the same day Dennis Marshall was sentenced to prison, his buddy Malik Scott was also in court being sentenced for separate crimes:

Coincidentally, Scott was in the same courtroom earlier Thursday pleading guilty to second-degree assault.
Scott, 25, of Hagerstown, opted for a jury trial in the assault case, but over lunch accepted a plea offer from the state.
The assault was on May 12, 2019, when Scott and two other relatives were charged with assaulting the longtime boyfriend of Scott’s mother, according to court records.
The robbery was on May 9, 2019, when Scott was accused of taking part in holding up a man for $120 during a marijuana buy, according to court records.

How did police find the weapon used in the Motel 6 robbery?

On May 16, a deputy serving an arrest warrant in an unrelated case on Dejaniro A. Rivera at a home on the 900 block of Maryland Avenue found a rifle fitting the description of the weapon used in the robbery.
Rivera told an investigator he believed Ruppenthal brought the Hi-Point 9 mm weapon to the house and that she, Taylor and the second man committed the robbery.

Oh, that’s interesting — Dejaniro Rivera just happens to have the same surname as Fantasia Rivera. Maybe it’s only a coincidence. Meanwhile, however, Dejaniro Rivera made news last week:

Hagerstown police said they found 70 rounds of ammunition and an individual wanted in connection with a recent shooting when they searched a house Wednesday morning in the 200 block of Taylor Avenue off Frederick Street.
The wanted person was one of three adults arrested when a search and seizure warrant was executed at the house at about 4:40 a.m., according to the Hagerstown Police Department. . . .
City detectives obtained the warrant after an investigation into people living in the house, according to a news release from the police department.
Besides the ammunition, police also found drugs and related paraphernalia, according to the release.
Those arrested included:
• Dejaniro Armante Rivera, 23, who had two active arrest warrants. Rivera also was charged with illegal possession of ammunition, common nuisance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to deliver and possession of a controlled dangerous substance.
• Destiny Marie Frisby, 19, charged with illegal possession of ammunition, common nuisance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and charges related to harboring a fugitive.
• Marquis Armond Craig, 19, charged with illegal possession of ammunition, common nuisance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to deliver, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and charges related to harboring a fugitive.

Whether or not Dejaniro Rivera is related to Fantasia Rivera, the connection between them is nonetheless interesting: Dejaniro had possession of the weapon used in the Motel 6 robbery, perpetrated by Dennis Marshall and two accomplices. Marshall previously went to prison for shooting Wesley Williams, who was walking with Fantasia at the time. It’s like “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” except with a small clique of criminals in one town. My point is that the question in the headline — “Who Commits Crime?” — has a very simple answer: Criminals.

Everything from dope dealing to robbery to murder — the vast majority of crime in America is committed by a comparatively small group of habitual offenders who will perpetrate crimes almost constantly if they aren’t behind bars. In a relatively small place like Hagerstown, Maryland (population about 40,000), it seems all the criminals know each other, so that Hagerstown police seldom arrest anyone who is more than two degrees of separation from Fantasia Rivera, the “Beautiful Disaster.”

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Category: Crime, Maryland

Liberal Idiot: ‘There Are Proven Strategies to Interrupt These Cycles of Violence’

Posted on | November 30, 2020 | 2 Comments

Perhaps you have forgotten the name Lisa Bender. Over the summer, the president of the Minneapolis City Council became a symbol of liberal idiocy, when she was interviewed on CNN saying that she could “imagine a police-free future.” Since then, not surprisingly, violent crime in Minneapolis has skyrocketed. The number of shootings in the city has doubled, and more than 100 officers have left the city’s police force.

No one who values their life would go near Minneapolis, and as the city circles the toilet bowl, Lisa Bender announced earlier this month that she will not seek re-election. James Lileks, who lives in Minneapolis but hasn’t been murdered yet, calls attention to an interview Bender gave to a Minneapolis journalist, in which she maintained her expertise:

For a number of years, the city has pursued developing a broader system of safety in Minneapolis. We’ve invested in community-based safety strategies, youth violence prevention, hospital-based violence prevention, group violence prevention. A couple of years ago, we directed staff to look at ways we could better serve the community by matching the right response to a call for help, looking through all the reasons why people call 911. Most of them are for non-violence-related incidents.
Violent crime makes up a very small percent of the total number of 911 calls. So that work has been ongoing. . . .
Unfortunately, 80% of gun-violence victims in Minneapolis are Black. Seventy percent of gun-violence victims are very young — ages 12 through 31. And there are proven strategies to interrupt these cycles of violence that are often group involved, that are relationship based.
A lot of the other incidents like car thefts and armed robberies are also related to groups that are known to the city, that are known to law enforcement. So for me the package looks like increasing accountability for law enforcement, investing in community-based safety strategies that we know work to prevent violence, investing in alternatives to policing so that we’re not relying on police to answer every single kind of call that’s coming into 911, so that we have a more holistic system of safety that’s working to keep people safe.

Do you get the idea that Lisa Bender thinks of certain phrases as if they were magical incantations? She speaks of “community-based safety strategies” as if merely saying these words will end the spree of carjackings and shootings that plague Minneapolis. Of course, she is corrected that their are “proven strategies to interrupt these cycles of violence” — you send the cops to arrest the perpetrators, prosecute them and ship them off to state prison for 10 or 20 years. That will “interrupt” their criminal career, but that’s probably not what she had in mind.

And whatever the “community-based safety strategies” might do, it will be too late to save the people already murdered in Minneapolis:

A 20-year-old man was fatally shot early Thursday in north Minneapolis, marking the city’s 78th homicide of the year.
Police found the man, later identified as Edward Mathew Thomas Hodges Jr., lying in the 2700 block of N. Dupont Avenue just before 3 a.m. after a ShotSpotter activation. A police spokesman said officers saw numerous people fleeing on foot. Hodges, who had been shot in the chest, died at the scene.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Thursday also identified the man gunned down in his car earlier this week in the 3800 block of N. Girard Avenue early Tuesday as Frank L. Barber, 49, of Crystal.
The 78 homicides in 2020 make it the third-worst year for such deaths in Minneapolis. In all of 2019, there were 48 homicides. The highest number, 97, was recorded in 1995; the second-highest, 83, in 1996.

In case you didn’t do the math, that’s a 63% increase in the number of homicides, compared to 2019, and the year is not over yet.

Just a few more holistic victims of community-based murders.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

Category: Crime, Minnesota

Rule 5 Sunday: Natalie Dormer

Posted on | November 30, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

One can criticize HBO’s Game Of Thrones series for a lot of things, but one thing you can’t carp at is the casting. There were a plethora of attractive ladies playing major roles, and one of them was natalie Dormer, whose character Margaery Tyrell got a big upgrade from her fairly minor role in G.R.R. Martin’s original novels. Here she is in the stage play “Venus In Furs”.

Not looking very royal in this one…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick Of The Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1183, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five New Amendments Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Khadijah Ibrahim, Alana Boden, Il Trovatore, Marnie, The Ride, Hamlet, Speaker Occasional Cortex, Elektra, Hillbilly Elegy, Scent Of A Woman, Lucia di Lammermoor, Post Turkey Day, Die Walkure, Cutting The Turkey Without Them, and Kiri Te Kanawa.

A View From The Beach: Arctic Fox – Sienna Guillory, Fish Pic Black Friday – Jen Kitchen, Tattoo Thanksgiving, Some Wednesday Wetness, Two Different Approaches to Oysters, Tanlines Tuesday, Your Monday Morning Stimulant and Not A Palm Sunday

Proof Positive: A double dose of Vintage Thanksgiving Babes!

Red Pilled Jew: Women With Braids

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Relay Breakdown

Posted on | November 30, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Relay Breakdown

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

The True Story of a Teenage Patriot
Pushing Rubber Downhill
Dark Brightness
The Rabbit Hole
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Julie London
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

DNA of the Doomed
Pushing Rubber Downhill
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
EBL

The ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Is Dangerous, and Yet Often Hilarious
The Pirate’s Cove
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
EBL

‘A Year Without Christmas’
The First Street Journal
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Sandman
A View From The Beach
EBL

Immigration: Fallacies and Logic
EBL

When Police Yell ‘Drop the Gun,’ Guess What Happens If You Don’t?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.23.20
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

$57 Worth of Hamburgers and Corn Dogs
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.24.20
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

When Police Yell ‘Drop the Knife,’ Guess What Happens If You Don’t?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.25.20
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

A Short Probation in Chicago
357 Magnum
EBL

The Vision of the Anointed’ Returns
EBL

The Anti-‘Anti-Racist’ Professor
357 Magnum
EBL

Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed
EBL

The Biden Agenda: ‘South Minneapolis Is Worse Than I’ve Ever Seen It’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 11.27.20 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 11.27.20 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending November 27:

  1.  EBL (19)
  2.  357 Magnum (13)
  3.  A View From The Beach (7)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!

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Activists Demand ‘Justice’ After Black Teens Murdered in Sacramento Mall

Posted on | November 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Activists Demand ‘Justice’ After Black Teens Murdered in Sacramento Mall

Remember when Black Lives Matter activists made “defund the police” the core demand of their movement? After two teenagers were shot to death Friday, now they want police to apprehend the killer:

The family of two teenagers killed during a Friday shooting inside the Arden Fair mall spoke out on Saturday during a tearful vigil service.
The two victims were brothers: 19-year-old Dewayne James Jr. and 17-year-old Sa’Quan Reed-James. Family and friends gathered at the mall at 6 p.m. to pay respects and ask the community to step forward with information and demand more resources for the community’s Black youth amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We just want justice,” said the teens’ aunt, Sharron Jackson.
The shopping mall erupted in gunfire Friday night just after 6 p.m. and the teens were shot near the mall’s southwest entrance.
James was pronounced dead at the scene, while Reed-James was taken to UC Davis Medical Center, where he died several hours later. . . .
Leia Schenk, founder of Empact; Allegra Tayor, founder of The Village Advocates of Sacramento; and Jamilia Land, a local activist with ties to the James family, all spoke at the vigil.
“Whoever is out there who did this, may God have mercy on your soul,” Land said, holding back tears. . . .
The suspect, believed to be a man in his 20s, remains at large. Police have given few details but said they are working to make an arrest using surveillance footage captured by mall cameras and witness statements.
“It’s time for the community to stand up, take back our community, teach our children different,” Land said. “Give them something other than guns and rap music to pick up and follow behind.”

Notice that there is no description of the “man in his 20s” who perpetrated this murder. Probably not a Trump supporter, IYKWIMAITYD.




 

Category: California, Crime
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