In The Mailbox: 11.25.20

Posted on | November 26, 2020 | 1 Comment

Still not sure whether I’ll do linkagery tomorrow or just double up on Friday. In either case, best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving to all of you Loyal Readers. I am grateful for all of you.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

An encore of Julie London.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1182
357 Magnum: What Were You Doing When You Were 15?
Red Pilled Jew: Wednesday Whittle
EBL: Speaker Of The House Occasional Cortex?
Twitchy: Ari Fleischer – Maybe Some Reporter Will Ask Joe Biden About His Suggestion Of Using The Logan Act Against General Flynn
Louder With Crowder: Jason Whitlock Exposes The Left’s “Mental Slavery” Over African Americans
Vox Popoli: Even The Talking Heads Knew, also, If It Is Another /pol/ LARP

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: America’s Window Of Hope
American Greatness: An American Moses
American Power: Ceaseless Lies From Democrats & Leftist Media Created This Moment
American Thinker: Election Fraud You Can See, also, Dominion In Georgia – What Happened?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: On This Date In History – A Little Boy Named Elian Gonzalez Is Rescued At Sea
BattleSwarm: Bill Filed To Regulate SWAT Teams
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: France’s National Antibodies Wake – Is It Too Late?
Da Tech Guy: Let’s Get Real About JFK, also, Questions & Incentives For The GOP & Trump Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Why They Hate Trump, also, The Jeff Sessions Lesson
First Street Journal: An Act Of Desperation & Defiance
The Geller Report: PA Judge Blocks State From Certifying Election Results, also, Huge Court Win Could Overturn Nevada Result
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Conflicts Of Interest
Hollywood In Toto: Why Uncle Frank Rejects Its Own Compelling Story
JustOneMinute: Out Like Flynn?
The Lid: Alyssa Milano Tries To Make Peace With Trump Supporters She Crapped On – They’re Not Having Any
Legal Insurrection: Trump Pardons General Flynn, also, After Four Years Of Democrat Attacks On Trump Supporters, Biden Can’t “Unify” The Nation
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Harlot’s Way – Bethlehem
Power Line: Amazon Vs. Alex Berenson (And Me), also, A Heroine For Our Time?
Shark Tank: Rubio Throws Shade On Biden’s Cabinet Picks
Shot In The Dark: What A Difference Four Years Makes
The Political Hat: Social Justice League
This Ain’t Hell: Tuskegee Airman Passes, also, I Used To Like Mattis
Victory Girls: Thanksgiving Lockdown Is For The Peasants
Volokh Conspiracy: CA AG’s Brief Claims “Hate Speech” Is Constitutionally Unprotected
Weasel Zippers: Denver Mayor’s Epic Hypocrisy On Thanksgiving Travel, also, Biden Looking To Hire All The Losers Trump Fired
The Federalist: Without Evidence, Former President Obama Accuses Hispanic Trump Voters of Bigotry, also, Vermont Governor Instructs Schools To Interrogate Students About Family Thanksgiving Gatherings
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman – Reform This Thing, also, Thanksgiving In Lockdown

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Category: Linkagery

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

Posted on | November 25, 2020 | 1 Comment

Antonio Estrada, 26, has been charged with arson, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest in connection to a series of incidents that ended with San Francisco cops shooting Estrada.

Shortly before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, San Francisco 911 started getting calls about a fire in an apartment building on Ellis Street. An evidently deranged Estrada used gasoline to start a fire, then began attacking people with a screwdriver and a frying pan. Did I mention he was deranged? A little more than an hour later, 911 started getting calls about “male subjects fighting in the area of Market and 5th Streets,” about four blocks from the Ellis Street arson location. Estrada was captured on cellphone video fighting with three men. Police arrived at the scene, yelled at Estrada to drop the knife and, alas, he did not.

We have previously examined what happens to people who don’t comply when police yell “drop the gun,” and it’s pretty much the same thing with knife-wielding psychotics, the only difference in this case being that Estrada has so far survived being shop by cops, although his injuries were “life threatening.” If he recovers, he’ll face felony charges. The headline at San Francisco CBS affiliate KBCW-TV calls Estrada the “Victim of Officer-Involved Shooting,” but he was a victim of nothing but his own craziness. As you know, Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: California, Crime

In The Mailbox: 11.24.20

Posted on | November 24, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.24.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Liberal City, Another Milestone
EBL: The Ride – A Review
Twitchy: Senators Cotton & Rubio Didn’t Get The Memo About Gropey Joe’s Cabinet Being Superheroes
Louder With Crowder: John Cleese Wants Woke People To Fry, Makes Important Point
Vox Popoli: OK, Boomer, also, There Is No Concession
Stoic Observations: A Stoic Political Taxonomy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You Can’t Stay Neutral Any More
American Conservative: Time For Conservatives To Dump Trump?
American Greatness: Newly-elected Congresswoman Plans To Be Strapped In The Capitol, also, By Every Legal Means Necessary
American Power: The Problematization Of Substack
American Thinker: This Is War
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Rotting Apple News
Babalu Blog: Miami Cuban Radio Icon Armando Perez Roura Dead At 92
BattleSwarm: How Soros-Backed Leftist DAs Refuse To Enforce The Law, also, Biden Still Bidening
Cafe Hayek: Tyranny Unmasked, also, No More Lockdowns
CDR Salamander: Your Presence Mission Is Not Sending The Message You Think It Is
Da Tech Guy: Cryptocurrents, also, Report From Louisiana – The Social Dilemma
Don Surber: Republican Traitors, also, Get Ready For Another Sellout
First Street Journal: Once Again, Kentuckians Have To Go To Federal Court To Protect Constitutional Rights, also, Another Democrat Governor Wants To Turn You Into Gladys Kravitz
The Geller Report: Tech Millionaire Funds Hacking Team – “Election Was 100% Rigged – Not Even Close”, also, OANN Suspended From YouTube For “Misinformation”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Ring Of Fire
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla Says What Comedians Wouldn’t For Eight Long Obama Years, also, How Ron Howard Brought Hillbilly Elegy To Life Without Lectures
JustOneMinute: To Be Fair, In His Professional Life Trump Probably Had Good Lawyers
The Lid: Dozens Of Cops Quit Seattle PD As City Council “Defunds Police”
Legal Insurrection: “Curfew Breakers” Protest On California Beaches, also, Researcher Finds Big Tech Manipulated 2020 Election
Michelle Malkin: COVIDGATE Part II – Clinical Trials & Crusader Bias
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sacred
Power Line: An Emmy For Andrew Cuomo, also, There’s More Than One Way To Steal An Election
Shark Tank: Loser Donna Shalala Lashes Out At Maria Salazar After Losing
Shot In The Dark: Liberty Is Destiny
The Political Hat: For The Delaware Green Party Species Is Just a Social Construct
This Ain’t Hell: The Son Tay Prison Raid, also, Military Working Dog Recognized At Retirement
Victory Girls: General Mattis Says America First Policy Must End
Volokh Conspiracy: Revisiting The Rule Of Law, Legal & Constitutional Norms
Weasel Zippers: Group Files Emergency Petition In WI After Finding 150,000 Potentially Fraudulent Ballots, also, Former White House Physician Convinced Biden Not Mentally Or Physically Fit For Office
The Federalist: 1 In 6 Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They’d Known About Hunter Biden Scandals, also, Socialism Failed Miserably For The American Pilgrims, Just Like It Does Everywhere
Mark Steyn: Express Checkout, also, Not In The Lemonade Business

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Category: Linkagery

$57 Worth of Hamburgers and Corn Dogs

Posted on | November 24, 2020 | Comments Off on $57 Worth of Hamburgers and Corn Dogs

Four quarter-pound hamburgers, six quarter-pound double burgers, 12 corndogs and a Queso burger — that’s what Roberto Carlos Silva, 23, allegedly ordered from Sonic Drive-Thru in Nebraska using an app in an identity-theft case last week. Silva was arrested and released from jail Thursday. He returned to Sonic on Saturday and shot four people:

Bellevue Police confirmed two people are dead after a shooting at a Sonic Drive-In Saturday night.
During a press conference Sunday evening, Bellevue Police Lt. Andy Jashinske shed light on the events of the shooting and released the names of the four victims.
Police also shared body camera footage of the moment the suspect, Roberto Silva Jr., was taken into custody.
The deceased are Nathan Pastrana, 22, and Ryan Helbert, 28. The other two victims, ages 18 and 25, are still hospitalized for gunshot wounds.
Silva was booked into the Sarpy County Jail early Sunday morning for two counts of first-degree murder and first-degree arson. A bond has not yet been set.
According to the Bellevue Police Department, two other people were hurt in the shooting. They were taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in unknown condition.
A U-Haul truck in the parking lot was set ablaze at some point during the incident, and Silva is accused of starting the fire.

All of the victims were Sonic employees. The two wounded survivors were Kenneth Gerner, 25, and Zoey Reece Atalig Lujan, 18.

Because of $57 worth of hamburgers and corn dogs.

Category: Crime, Nebraska

In The Mailbox: 11.23.20

Posted on | November 24, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.23.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: It Could Be Worse…
EBL: Alex Rider – A Review, also, Clarence Thomas – In His Own Words
Twitchy: Are You On Parler? MSNBC Thinks You’re Fine With Hate Speech & Racism
Louder With Crowder: Patriot Confronts Maskless NJ Governor At Restaurant
Vox Popoli: The Raid In Germany Was On The CIA, also, Soros Bought The Southern Baptists
Stoic Observations: The Uncle Bunny Scenario

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Wait & See Edition
American Conservative: The Greatest Scandal Of Our Lifetime
American Greatness: Something Rotten In Pennsylvania, also, Waiting For Sidney
American Power: Anti-Lockdown Protests In England, also, The Elites Plan To Use The Pandemic To Finally Inflict Authoritarian Tyranny On The Rest Of Us
American Thinker: The Trump Team’s Real Strategy, also, It’s In The Code – Hanky Panky In Virginia’s Votes
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Was Cuba Involved In The JFK Assassination?
BattleSwarm: Things Crashing Into Other Things At High Speeds, also, Election Fraud Update For November 23
Cafe Hayek: Wishing That Hans Rosling Were Still Alive
CDR Salamander: The Problem With Proconsuls
Da Tech Guy: Brave Dominion Runs Away In PA, also, First Fleet? How About Funding What You Have?
Don Surber: Why We Fight, also, The Lexicon Of Lefties
First Street Journal: KY Church Leaders Turn Down Gov. Beshear’s Shutdown, also, Another Draconian Decree From The Pennsylvania SSR
The Geller Report: KRAKEN – A CIA Hacking Program, also, Smartmatic Caught Lying
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, What Norms & Which Institutions?
Hollywood In Toto: Carano Must Be Canceled, But What About Kimmel, Midler, & Rapaport?
JustOneMinute: Just A Head Fake
The Lid: Leftists Hate On Free-Speech Platforms Gab & Parler – Where Is This Going?
Legal Insurrection: Biden Taps John F, Kerry* As Special Presidential Envoy For Climate, also, GSA Administrator, Her Family, & Pets Threatened
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations
Power Line: Today’s Biden Blunder, also, The Left’s War On The Working Class
Shark Tank: Salazar Poised To Be The New Anti-Socialist Voice In Congress
Shot In The Dark: Downstream From Culture
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – The Sex Gap
The Political Hat: Belated & Surprisingly Chill Election Aftermath, also, The Antifa Playbook
This Ain’t Hell: A Porn Star & Three Marines, also, Fine For Thee But Not For Me!
Victory Girls: Democrats Replace Free Speech With Curated Information
Volokh Conspiracy: Apple’s Chief Security Officer & Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Officials Indicted For CHP Bribery
Weasel Zippers: Wayne Co MI Election Worker Files Affidavit Saying She Was Instructed To Falsify Thousands Of Absentee Ballots For Biden, also, Hacker Demonstrates How Easily Voting Machines Can Be Forced To Change Votes
The Federalist: Many Studies Find That Cloth Masks Don’t Stop COVID-Like Virii, also, Five More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
Mark Steyn: Now, Voyager, also, Georgia On My Mind

*”Who, by the way, served in Vietnam.” – R. Limbaugh

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

Posted on | November 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Rasheed Moorman, who may have been the unluckiest criminal in America. Or maybe he was just stupid.

Notice my use of the past-tense verb “was.”

Rasheed’s final crime was not his first. A previous exercise in criminal stupidity nearly killed him when, in 2014, he and an accomplice attempted to rob a man who shot Rasheed twice. That crime landed Rasheed in prison for two years, and it’s unknown just how much crime he committed after getting out of prison, but it probably was not a small amount. At any rate, Rasheed Moorman’s career in criminal stupidity reached a predictable conclusion a few months ago:

On Monday, nearly five months after a Roanoke man was shot and killed by police, the Roanoke Police Department released bodycam footage of what happened.
On June 25, 2020, 26-year-old Rasheed Moorman, was shot by a Roanoke City Police Officer and later died.
Earlier this month, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the city of Roanoke Donald Caldwell announced neither officer involved in the shooting would face any criminal charges.
Along with releasing Officer Bourgeois’ bodycam footage, the police department provided more information Monday about the day that Moorman was shot.
On June 25, a plain-clothes detective was in the area of Ashton Heights Apartments on an unrelated police investigation, when he saw two men who fit the descriptions of suspects from an earlier shooting, according to the police department.
That detective then called for uniformed officers, who arrived and approached the two suspects, who then ran away.
While running after them, Bourgeois saw one man, who would later be identified as Moorman, had a handgun in his right hand and Bourgeois yelled, “drop the gun,” according to police.
As the chase continued, police-worn body cameras and security cameras at the apartment complex show Moorman turning and firing at least four shots at Bourgeois, according to Caldwell.
Two of his shots went into an apartment in which there were two people.
It was at this point that Bourgeois fired 10 shots at Moorman, three of which hit him.
As Office Smith arrived to help Bourgeois, Moorman then began firing at him and Smith returned fire, according to police.

Watch the video:

What part of the sentence “drop the gun” is so hard to understand?

Category: Crime, Virginia

Immigration: Fallacies and Logic

Posted on | November 23, 2020 | Comments Off on Immigration: Fallacies and Logic

What’s wrong with open borders? Or, to be more specific, what’s wrong with “conservatives” who don’t see what’s wrong with open borders?

For more than 20 years, I have been mystified by those on “our” side who seem oblivious to the consequences of our broken immigration policy which is, in fact, so broken that it’s not actually a coherent policy but a confusing accumulation of blunders that have been piling up since Ted Kennedy pushed the 1965 “reform” bill through the Senate.

Peter Brimelow did arguably the best job of examining this in his 1995 book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster, which became a bestseller, and also the occasion of Brimelow being purged from National Review. The fact that Bill Buckley evidently deemed it “racist” to express concern about U.S. immigration policy points to the depth of this problem. Among the several possible explanations for the open-borders “conservative” problem, many have long suspected that the answer is as simple as “follow the money.” Various funders of Conservatism, Inc., benefit directly from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor, and this Chamber of Commerce mentality is the most obvious explanation for why so many “conservatives” are such enthusiastic boosters of amnesty for illegals, etc.

A couple of years ago, Spencer Morrison wrote an excellent article directed at a particular open-borders advocate (Alex Nowrasteh) in which he made points that strike me as widely applicable:

Nowrasteh’s most important rhetorical trick is to shift the burden. That is, he makes claims requiring justification and demands that his opponent justify his opposite conclusions. . . .
Nowrasteh makes the radical claim that America should dissolve its border, and then has the gall to say the burden is on his opponent to show why this is bad. That’s not how logic works. The burden rests on the interlocutor proposing the change to show why it is beneficial. Doing otherwise violates the precautionary principle, which is deeply rooted in both our biology and empirical evidence.
Biological evolution is largely governed by one question: approach or avoid? Approaching something novel may yield a lucrative new food source or reproductive partner, but it might also kill you. In fact, death, maiming, or disease is usually the more likely outcome. For this reason, human populations evolved a genetic predisposition for neophobia (risk aversion) while only a small minority of humanity carries the , which predisposes one for novelty-seeking behavior.
Logic also favors the status quo. Consider the Lindy Effect, which implies that what survives is likely to continue surviving because of its proven utility. Meanwhile, most of what is new doesn’t last very long—time separates the weak from the strong. This explains why most new ideas don’t last, while classics have sticking-power.

Read the whole thing. Many intellectuals seem to have idea that any concern about immigration can be dismissed simply labelling such concerns “nativism” or “racism,” and the kind of rhetorical tricks employed by Nowrasteh are too often used as a substitute for sound argument. Another problem — certainly not limited to the immigration issue — is that most people are incapable of contemplating the secondary and tertiary consequences of policy. You see this in debates around healthcare, where mandating insurance coverage for “pre-existing conditions” is considered imperative by liberals who can’t seem to understand that such mandates will either (a) cause an increase in insurance premiums, or (b) cause employers to evade the mandate by hiring fewer fulltime workers, or (c) some combination of (a) and (b). In other words, a policy that changes one factor in a complex social or economic system will produce consequences that policy-makers have not contemplated, and these consequences may do more harm than good to the people the policy was intended to benefit.

This is true in immigration policy, as well. When the 1965 bill was being debated, Ted Kennedy specifically and repeatedly denied that the measure would have certain consequences that opponents of the measure warned against. Within a decade of this debate, it was apparent that the opponents were right and Kennedy was wrong. Rather than repealing the 1965 bill and returning to the status quo ante, however, instead Congress repeatedly passed “reform” bills that were promised to fix the country’s immigration problems, but which instead tended generally to make the problems worse. At no point in this long sad history of immigration “reform” were Republicans really more conservative on the issue than Democrats, because the open-borders lobby is bipartisan, a two-headed monster that no one has ever been able to slay.

Category: Immigration

Rule 5 Monday: Julie London

Posted on | November 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Somehow I have managed to get through over ten years of these posts without once featuring singer, actress, and pinup model Julie London, but today I correct that unfortunate omission. Probably best known to us as nurse Dixie McCall on the hit TV series Emergency!, produced by her ex-husband Jack Webb and co-starring her real-life husband Bobby Troup, Julie had a long career as a torch singer preceding that and roles in over two dozen films opposite stars like Rock Hudson, Gary Cooper, and Robert Mitchum. Quite the lady. Big hat tip to EBL for reminding me of this amazing singer & actress.
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