Her Name Is ‘Destiny’

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 2 Comments

Destiny Allen, to be more precise. Whatever her mother had in mind when she bestowed this name on her, evidently her destiny was jail:

A McDonald’s employee is facing charges after police said she got into a fight with one coworker at the Atlanta fast-food restaurant and then hit a second coworker with her car while driving away.
Destiny Allen is charged with aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in connection with the incident, which happened at the McDonald’s on Northside Drive about 12:30 a.m., Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer TaSheena Brown said.
Investigators said Allen and another employee got into a physical altercation and a third employee tried to break it up.
When Allen walked out of the restaurant, both employees followed her to make sure she left the premises, Brown said. As she got into her car, Allen and the employee who had been involved in the fight continued to argue.
Allen then put her car into reverse and pressed the gas. In the process, she hit the employee who had tried to break up the fight, Brown said.
The woman was thrown into a window panel of the restaurant, investigators said. She was taken to a hospital with injuries to her legs but is stable, Brown said.
Allen was taken to the Fulton County Jail.

There is video of the fight:

Category: Crime, Georgia

Bizarre Hell-World Updates

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

Who knows how long we’ve been descending? It’s been going on for months — maybe even years — and our descent has been a steady process:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, May 2

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
VAN JONES IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Sept. 5

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
AL SHARPTON IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Sept. 9

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
JAKE TAPPER IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Oct. 11

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
GLENN GREENWALD IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Oct. 29

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, Nov. 15

. . . and finally:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT
OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH
MATTHEW YGLESIAS IS A VOICE OF SANITY
— Ed Driscoll, today

UPDATE: Just to briefly address a few details of today’s bizarre hell-world update, Yglesias said on Twitter that “defund the police” is a bad idea, and the Left . . .

Well, I want to say they “went crazy,” but they were already crazy.

Perhaps it will be easier to understand why Yglesias is pro-police when I remind you that in 2013, he bought a $1.2 million condo near Logan Circle in D.C. This was part of the “gentrification” in our nation’s capital where an incentive program for first-time home buyers enabled a lot of white yuppies to purchase Washington real estate on favorable terms. This wave of “gentrification” in Washington and other major cities occurred at a time when more effective law-enforcement methods had driven U.S. crime rates down to their lowest level since the 1960s. Ah, but then the “Black Lives Matter” movement erupted and now effective law-enforcement methods are RAAAAACIST!

Something about owning property tends to make people — even “progressive” ideologues like Matt Yglesias — rather conservative, at least so far as it concerns their own personal interests.

If you’re renting an apartment and the city turns into Mogadishu, you just terminate your least and move elsewhere. But when you’ve purchased a $1.3 million investment, you have a vested interest in trying to prevent your neighborhood from becoming a war zone. To urban home owners, “defund the police” means surrendering to local warlords, which probably won’t be good for property values.

Category: Ed Driscoll

The Planners and Their Plans

Posted on | December 3, 2020 | 1 Comment

If you are my age, the very mention of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project calls to mind memories of how liberalism’s “War on Poverty” ultimately ended in catastrophic defeat:

At its peak, Cabrini-Green was home to 15,000 people, mostly living in mid- and high-rise apartment buildings, totaling 3,607 units. Over the years, crime and neglect created hostile living conditions for many residents, and “Cabrini-Green” became a metonym for the problems associated with public housing in the United States. Beginning in 1995, CHA began tearing down the mostly dilapidated, mid- and high-rise buildings, with the last high-rise being demolished in March 2011.

Cabrini-Green began with noble intentions — “slum clearance” and “urban renewal” were the phrases used to describe the rationale behind this project in a neighborhood once known as “Little Sicily.” Originally, in the 1940s, most of the tenants were Italian-American, but by the time the earlier rowhouse development (named for Saint Frances Cabrini, a nun who worked with the poor) was augmented by the high-rise William Green Homes (named for a famous labor-union leader), black residents were the majority, and not accidentally so. The liberalism of LBJ-era Democrats like Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (who held office for more than 20 years beginning in 1955) incorporated an attitude toward African-Americans that can at best be called patronizing, insofar as it was not actually racist. If stacking up poor black people in 10-storey-tall housing developments seems like a bad idea in retrospect, consider that the alternative to this vertical solution was to allow Chicago’s poor black population to spread horizontally through the city’s neighborhoods. Black people who had left the segregation called Jim Crow in the South discovered a kind of segregation called “liberalism” in the North.

Support for federally funded public housing was a touchstone of liberal policy for decades, and it was the critics of this program, rather than its proponents, who were accused of racism. You were not only racist if you questioned the wisdom of pouring out taxpayer funding for projects like Cabrini-Green, you were a cold-hearted Scrooge. The idea of public housing as an expression of philanthropic charity was deeply embedded in the liberal worldview of the Welfare State. LBJ declared his “War on Poverty” in his first State of the Union address:

The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty. The forty programmes established by the Act were collectively aimed at eliminating poverty by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods and by helping the poor access economic opportunities long denied them.
As a part of the Great Society, Johnson believed in expanding the federal government’s roles in education and health care as poverty reduction strategies.

In 1987, Ronald Reagan famously summarized the result of LBJ’s policy: “In the Sixties, we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.”

It turns out that old-fashioned poverty — not having enough money — was actually not bad, compared to federally subsidized poverty.

By the 1990s, the failure of liberal policy was so blatantly obvious that even Democrats did not object when the federal government began demolishing the high-rise public housing projects it had spent so much taxpayer money to build a few decades earlier. Cabrini-Green was a symbol of this failed liberal dream. The last resident to leave the last high-rise tower before it was demolished in 2010 was a woman named Annie Ricks. Born in Escambia County, Alabama, in 1956, Ricks was 10 when she moved to Chicago with her family. By the time she moved into Cabrini-Green in 1989, Ricks had eight children, and she gave birth to another five children while she lived there. The Cabrini-Green site was “redeveloped” with a mix of luxury condos and “affordable housing” in what reporters described as “a planned, mixed-income neighborhood.” There was an interesting coda to the story this year when a 9-year-old boy who lived in the “affordable” section was shot dead — Janari Ricks was the grandson of Annie Ricks. The man charged with Janari’s murder, 39-year-old Darrell Johnson, opened fire at “a group of people behind the townhomes on the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue”:

According to prosecutors, Johnson spent four years in prison for a 2005 conviction on carjacking and weapons charges, and served two years’ probation for a 2002 conviction for aggravated battery.
Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. (27th) said Monday it appears neither the shooter nor his intended target live in Cabrini Green, although they grew up there. . . .
Janari is the fifth child age 10 or younger to be shot and killed in Chicago this year.

Joe Biden got nearly 75% of the vote in Cook County, Illinois, and his agenda regarding law enforcement is mainly an exercise in blaming “systemic racism” for everything wrong in the black community.

Interestingly enough, the community where Annie Ricks was born has a larger black community, percentage-wise, than Chicago. Escambia County, Alabama, is 32% black, whereas Cook County, Illinois, is only 25% black. And while Biden easily won Chicago, Donald Trump got 68% of the vote in Escambia County where — perhaps not coincidentally — children don’t get shot to death as a routine matter. Just sayin’ . . .

One of the basic tenets of liberal thinking about race — affecting a variety of issues, including immigration, education, poverty and crime — is what Steve Sailer has called the “Magic Dirt” theory. The places where impoverished POC (“people of color”) live are demonstrably afflicted with social problems which, the liberal believes, can be solved by relocating these people to places where white people live. This idea that social problems are geographic in nature means that certain ZIP codes are “Magic Dirt,” where high SAT scores and low crime rates are more or less automatically obtained by anyone fortunate enough to live there, whereas the places with high crime and low SAT scores are “Tragic Dirt.”

Once you understand this misguided concept, it becomes impossible not to recognize the “Magic Dirt” meme in media and political rhetoric. Given what we know about Joe Biden — representing the same party that got 75% of the vote in Cook County — what should we expect if he becomes president? Steve Sailer has thoughts on that subject:

My theory has long been, going back to Chicago’s demolition of near-Loop housing projects, that, because poor black people are America’s perpetual hot potato that everybody hopes to hand off to somebody else, white urban elites wish to shove inner-city blacks onto the hinterlands.

The only possible reply to that is, “Wait and see.”

Did I mention that U.S. firearms sales are at record levels?

CORRECTION: “Magic Dirt Theory” is a phrase coined by Vox Day, specifically referring to the belief of open-borders enthusiasts “that all immigrants will magically become Real Americans, real life nephews of their Uncle Sam, reborn on the Fourth of July by virtue of geographical relocation, thereby instantly negating of all of their racial, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural traditions.” My apologies for the erroneous attribution.

Category: Chicago, Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 12.02.20

Posted on | December 2, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.02.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Ellen Page? Eliot Page? Who cares?

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1189
Red Pilled Jew: A Nation Divided By The Information Flow
357 Magnum: Suicide Or COVID-19?
Twitchy: USA Today “Fact Check” Tries To Rescue Democrat COVID Hypocrites
Louder With Crowder: Meet The Leader Of The Elitists Who Want To Control You
Vox Popoli: This Is Why They Say There’s No Evidence, also, Splish Splash (Full Text Of President Trump’s Speech)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Has Bibi Boxed BIden In On Iran?
American Greatness: USPS Contractor Says His Trailer With 130-280,000 Ballots Disappeared In Lancaster, PA
American Power: A Plea For A Humanist Antiracism
American Thinker: Coronavirus Hysteria Is Simply Too Ridiculous To Continue
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Democrats Contending For Kamala Harris’ Senate Seat Are Fans Of The Murderous Castro Dictatorship
BattleSwarm: How Social Justice Warrior Language Manipulates People
Cafe Hayek: Walter Williams, RIP, also, My Inadequate Tribute To One Of The Greatest Men I’ve Ever Known
CDR Salamander: Hug Your Local SINKEX Today
Da Tech Guy: Proof That The Pandemic Numbers Don’t Add Up, also, Twitter’s Prevent Defense, or, Seventh Time’s The Charm
Don Surber: Why People Ignore COVID Restrictions, also, Biden Is Muellered
First Street Journal: SJW vs. SJW, also, Not Just No But Hell No!
The Geller Report: Dominion Worker BLOWS UP Michigan Hearings, also, President Trump’s Speech On Election Fraud
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Synthesis
Hollywood In Toto: Yes, Scorsese’s Casino Outhustles His Iconic Goodfellas, also, Red Pill In Progress? Ron Howard Calls Out Political Film Critics
JustOneMinute: Marc Rich Redux
The Lid: Facebook & Twitter And Anti-Trump Labels To Trump’s “Most Important Speech” Ever
Legal Insurrection: Federal Appeals Court Upholds NC Voter ID Law, also, Media Rushes To Defend Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Pink Hammer & Sickle Hat
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Harlot’s Way – 2 Babylon
Power Line: Walter Williams, RIP, also, What Is To Be Done?
Shark Tank: House Democrats High On Legalizing Weed, Put COVID Funding On Ice
Shot In The Dark: And The List Goes On
STUMP: COVID Mortality With Meep
The Political Hat: Asians Are Now Persons Of Pallor
This Ain’t Hell: Daily Monolith News, also, Alabama Man Arrested For Stolen Valor After False POW Claims
Victory Girls: Obama Says “Defund The Police” Is Unworkable “Snappy Slogan”
Volokh Conspiracy: The Statutory Authority For Barr’s Appointment Of Durham As Special Counsel
Weasel Zippers: Under CO Vaccine Distribution Plan, Elderly & At-Risk People Would Be Vaccinated LAST, also, Whistleblowers – USPS Labeled 388,000 Votes For Trump As “Undeliverable”
The Federalist: Media Elites, Not Trump Supporters, Are Disconnected From Reality, also, Austin Mayor Threatens City With Lockdown While Vacationing In Cabo
Mark Steyn: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Grover, also, Backbeat

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In The Mailbox: 12.01.20

Posted on | December 1, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.01.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. It was very much appreciated!
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Pneuma
EBL: So What Happened To The Mysterious Utah Monolith?
Twitchy: Kim Klacik KO’s Racist Troll Who Tries To Shame Her & Other Black Female Conservatives For “Sounding White”
Louder With Crowder: Alyssa Milano Chirps At Red Cruz Over COVID Aid, Gets Rekt, also, James O’Keefe’s Been Eavesdropping On CNN Meetings & Just Broke The News To Network Prez Zucker
Vox Popoli: Rumors & More Rumors, also, Guess Who Owned The Vote?
Gab: A Discussion About QAnon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Gearing Up For Round 3 Of The Great Trump War
American Power: F**k Red China. Just F**k Them.
American Thinker: Examining The Evidence For Democrats’ “No Evidence Of Voter Fraud” Claim
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Alternative Medicine News
Babalu Blog: The Violent Arrest Of A Young Woman In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan Under Attack? also, Election Fraud Update For December 1
Cafe Hayek: Putting Stock In Competition
CDR Salamander: Red China Bullies Australia
Da Tech Guy: My Idea For Subscribers To Save Some Publications & Protect Conservative Voices, also, Was Calling AZ Early The Signal That The Steal Was On?
Don Surber: NYT Fears We’ll Treat Biden Like They Treated Trump
First Street Journal: Out Of Juice, also, Conservatives Now Vs. Conservatives Under Bush
The Geller Report: USPS Whistleblowers Come Forward, also, Dominion Employee Caught On Video Fiddling Data
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Baker v. Carr
Hollywood In Toto: Was Cure For Wellness Too Gonzo For Its Own Good? also, Hollywood’s Time’s Up Scandal Just The Beginning
JustOneMinute: Why Waste Your Time Voting?
The Lid: Whole Foods CEO Torches Socialism As “Trickle-Up Poverty”, also, Whitewashing FDR’s Abandonment Of The Jews
Legal Insurrection: PA – Emergency SCOTUS Injunction Sought To Halt Further Certification Actions, also, AG Barr Appoints Special Counsel To Investigate Russiagate
Nebraska Energy Observer: “A People Before ‘We The People'”
Power Line: The Flynn Outrage, also, Bruce Herschensohn, RIP
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Mask Mandates & Lockdowns “Totally Off The Table”
Shot In The Dark: Challenges
STUMP: Reading The News With Meep
The Political Hat: Big Brother In A Kilt, also, These Are Not The Catgirls We Are Looking For
This Ain’t Hell: Deception Is The Name Of The Game, also, Navy Will Scrap Bonhomme Richard
Victory Girls: Takeaways From AZ GOP Election Fraud Hearing
Volokh Conspiracy: 4000 Years Ago, Textile Traders Invented A Basic Social Technology
Weasel Zippers: LA County Supervisor Dines At Outdoor Restaurant Hours After Voting To Ban It Countywide, also, Two-Thirds Of Americans Want Election Recount
The Federalist: CNN Finally Discovers Red China Lies, also, Despite Science, Fauci & DeBlasio Kept Schools Closed To Hurt Trump
Mark Steyn: The Outliers Of The Outliers, also, The Ragtime Restaurant

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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.

Continued…

Police came to her house and she was arrested on IG Live saying she is a spokesperson for QAnon & the White House and wanted the police to “call Donald Trump and ask him” because she can’t share any “classified information.”

We’re doomed…pic.twitter.com/Vy4Qhmh9nX

— Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) July 5, 2020

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.