FMJRA 2.0: Shotgun Blues

A 41-year-old man was shot and killed early Friday morning in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, marking the city’s first homicide of 2021 and following a year of spiking crime rates there and around the nation.
According to Chicago police data, the city recorded 769 homicides in 2020, a 55% increase over 2019.
The increase, reversing a three-year trend, is among the highest in city history, The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.
Fatal shootings rose by 53%, with December shootings totaling 50, compared with just 19 a year earlier.
According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, 78% of the gun violence victims were Black.

So that’s about 600 black people shot dead in Chicago last year, a Democrat-run city in a Democrat-controlled state with some of the strictest gun-control laws in the country. If Black Lives Matter actually cared about saving the lives of black people, they’d be rioting about this, but the truth is the Black Lives Matter is just a propaganda operation with only one goal, to help Democrats win elections.

It would be wrong to say to describe this as a “tragedy,” because it’s so predictable. When you elect Democrats, people get killed as a result. If you’re too stupid to understand this, that’s not my fault.

Category: Chicago, Crime

The Other Podcast: Lizard People!

Posted on | January 2, 2021 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast: Lizard People!

Tonight at 7 p.m. ET on The Other Podcast, we will delve into the bizarre conspiracy theory behind the Nashville bombing:

A man who knew Christmas bomber Anthony Warner got a disturbing surprise in his mailbox on New Year’s Day when he received a package from the bomber.
The non-descript package was postmarked December 23rd, two days before investigators say Warner killed himself in the bombing. . . .
The package, which contained at least nine typed pages and two Samsung thumb drives, was immediately turned over to the FBI. . . .
“The knowledge I have gained is immeasurable. I now understand everything, and I mean everything from who/what we really are, to what the known universe really is.” . . .
The letter urged the friend to watch some internet videos he included on two Samsung thumb drives.
On another page Warner wrote about 9-11 conspiracy theories, ending with the statement “The moon landing and 9-11 have so many anomalies they are hard to count.”
Warner later wrote that “September 2011 was supposed to be the end game for the planet,” because that is when he believed that aliens and UFO’s began launching attacks on earth.
He wrote that the media was covering up those attacks.
But Warner’s writings grow even more bizarre when he wrote about reptilians and lizard people that he believed control the earth and had tweaked human DNA.
“They put a switch into the human brain so they could walk among us and appear human,” Warner wrote.

Apparently, the person who spread this “lizard people” conspiracy is a former BBC broadcaster named David Icke, who borrowed much of his theory from an Azerbaijani immigrant named Zecharia Sitchin.

Well, anyway, we’ll have lots to talk about tonight and, if you miss it live, you can find all our podcasts in the Podbean archives here.

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Category: Talk Radio

‘Mi Casa en Beacon Hill’

Posted on | January 2, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Mi Casa en Beacon Hill’

It was discovered that Alec Baldwin’s wife, who pretended to be a Spaniard named “Hilaria,” is in fact a New England WASP of colonial stock who was known as Hillary Hayward-Thomas to her private-school classmates at the Cambridge School of Weston, growing up in a five-bedroom home in the prestigious Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston.

The most interesting aspect of this fraud is how Alec Baldwin himself has acted as an accomplice in his fake-Spanish wife’s hoax. Ace of Spades pointed out that there are video clips of Baldwin making media appearances in which he mocked his wife’s “Spanish” accent:

Oh wow. He’s been doing this for years! On Letterman in 2013! “My wife is from Spain”pic.twitter.com/2QmjRKPgRD

— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) December 30, 2020

Obvious question: How could Baldwin not know the truth?

Obvious answer: It’s impossible. We must assume that Baldwin has met his wife’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and attorney David Thomas Jr. Since her parents are entirely American — they retired to the Mediterranean resort of Mallorca, but living on a Spanish island doesn’t make you a Spaniard — Baldwin must know his wife’s accent is phony.

Just FYI: My oldest daughter’s husband is Argentine, and she spent a full year in a Spanish-language immersion program in Argentina. She is fluent in Spanish, and they use both languages in their home, but my daughter doesn’t speak English with an accent. Do you see the point?

No matter how fluent in Spanish one might become, a native speaker of English doesn’t lose the ability to speak English, yet “Hilaria” Baldwin pretends she doesn’t know the English word for “cucumber.”

So what’s this about? We know that “Hilaria” owned a chain of yoga studios in New York. Is it possible that there is some sort of government program in New York that grants favorable treatment to minority-owned businesses, and that she was taking advantage of that? Because otherwise I cannot think of any other reason why this Yankee WASP would pretend to be Hispanic, except perhaps that she might be mentally ill.

Well, she did marry Alec Baldwin . . .

Hilaria Baldwin says she represents "the beauty of diversity." https://t.co/aji44wWTMO

— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) December 28, 2020

Category: Celebrities

Skepticism and Silence: ‘Cancel Culture’ and America’s Growing Political Crisis

Posted on | January 2, 2021 | 1 Comment

One of the things that separates 21st-century Americans from previous generations is a loss of liberty that few acknowledge. In particular, Americans have abandoned their First Amendment right to express their opinions, due to fear of what has become known as “cancel culture.”

Consider, for example, how one-sided the public discussion has been about removing Confederate monuments. In Virginia, for example, a number of communities — including the former Confederate capital of Richmond — have voted to rename Jefferson Davis Highway. What is remarkable about this is the near-total lack of vocal opposition to such projects. Arguments against this destructive iconoclasm are not difficult to make, but people are so afraid of being called “racist” that they are silent; this silence creates the false impression of a unanimous consensus in support of the radical “Black Lives Matter” agenda.

Fear of reprisal — indeed, mob violence — has introduced into our public discourse an element of dishonesty and hypocrisy. The consequence is a loss of trust. When people are compelled to endorse beliefs that they do not actually believe, they become suspicious and skeptical about the sincerity of others. One reason the news media are so widely despised in America is because partisan prejudice so controls what is reported in the media that every intelligent person recognizes their dishonesty:

Most voters suspect the news media buried the Hunter Biden story until after the election and think there’s a good chance that new President Biden was involved in his son’s overseas dealings.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters think many news organizations ignored the Hunter Biden story to help his father’s presidential campaign. . . .
Fifty-six percent (56%) believe it is likely Joe Biden was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son’s overseas business deals including at least one involving a company in mainland China.

CNN broadcasts lies 24/7, but anyone who calls them out about their falsehoods is subject to denunciation as a “right-wing extremist.” To be identified as such can destroy your career — ask James Damore about his experience at Google — and therefore smart and ambitious young people learn to keep their mouths shut. Open dissent is nearly non-existent among the elite. What are the consequences of this regime?

In a recent paper titled “Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States,” political scientists James L. Gibson and Joseph L. Sutherland reveal that self-censorship among Americans has soared.
In the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, 13.4 percent of Americans reported that they “felt less free to speak their mind than they used to.” In 1987, the figure reached 20 percent. By 2019, 40 percent of Americans reported that they didn’t feel free to speak their minds.
This isn’t a partisan issue. “The percentage of Democrats who are worried about speaking their mind is just about identical to the percentage of Republicans who self-censor: 39 percent and 40 percent, respectively,” Gibson and Sutherland report.
What are the consequences of this continuous self-censorship? In his book “The Great Terror,” the British historian Robert Conquest suggested one possible answer. In a passage about Soviet show trials, Conquest was troubled by something: Why did innocent people falsely confess to appalling crimes, even when most Soviet citizens themselves didn’t believe these people when they confessed?
Conquest’s chilling answer: Soviet citizens grew so used to lying that expressing one more falsehood was no big deal. People grew conditioned to accept the ever-changing standards and even to affirm support for them.

Read the whole thing. People are not merely afraid to express their opinions, but have become accustomed to ignoring actual facts.

What are the facts, after all, about police and the black community? Is it true that police racism is endangering black lives? No one has researched this issue more diligently than Heather Mac Donald:

In fact, fatal police shootings constitute a smaller fraction of black homicide deaths than they do white and Hispanic homicide deaths. Three percent of black homicide victims are killed by a cop, compared with 10 percent of white and Hispanic homicide victims killed by a cop. . . .
In the weeks immediately following the Floyd riots, homicides were up by 100 percent in Minneapolis, 200 percent in Seattle, 240 percent in Atlanta, and 182 percent in Chicago. The violence continued over the summer and into the fall. In a sample of 27 big cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Milwaukee, Nashville, and Louisville, homicide rates rose an average of 53 percent between June and August.

The facts are not on the side of Black Lives Matter activists. Their rhetoric — demonizing police and blaming white racism for every problem afflicting black Americans — is 180 degree contrary to truth.

“Most of the racial tension in America is fomented by journalists,” Glenn Reynolds sagely observes. Everyone who has paid attention realizes that the death of George Floyd — and Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, etc. — cannot be blamed on “systemic racism.” Confederate monuments were not to blame, nor were statues of Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus or Junipero Serra to blame. America endured a summer of riots, and has suffered a massive increase in violent crime, because CNN and other media organizations decided to incite racial hatred as a means of helping “energize the base” for Democrats in the election.

?This year, law-abiding citizens saw the real-life consequences of elected officials embracing pro-criminal, revolving-door policies. The result: our communities suffered.

Historic crime reductions & the renaissance of our urban communities are being thrown away. For what? pic.twitter.com/Nf9fhBL2Sl

— National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) (@GLFOP) December 29, 2020

You might suppose that Republican politicians would notice this, and say something about it, but our GOP “leaders” are either hopelessly stupid or lacking in courage. Or perhaps both. Stupidity and cowardice manifest themselves as an unwillingness to speak the ugly truth, in the mistaken belief that there is safety in silence. Republican politicians seem to agree with Hillary Clinton that GOP voters are “deplorables,” and therefore Republicans will not speak up on behalf of the people who elected them.

Is it any wonder that 40% of Republican voters worry about another civil war? Our political system is breaking down because of the dishonesty of the media, and the cowardice and stupidity of our politicians.

We are expected to believe in the Liberal Myth of Social Progress, that America has become “a more perfect Union” as the result of enlightened progressive reform. Skepticism toward these claims is not permitted, and so we are all required to pretend we believe in “progress.”

But Jefferson Davis could not be reached for comment.

Category: History, Media Bias, Racism

In The Mailbox: 01.01.21

Posted on | January 2, 2021 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Happy New Year!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Apple Hates People Doing Security Research
EBL: Hypocrite Teachers Union Shill Sarah Chambers Busted For Traveling To Caribbean During COVID Lockdown
Twitchy: Chicago Doc’s Rage Tweet About A Party Next Door Gets The Twitter Treatment It Deserves
Louder With Crowder: Media Challenges Gov. DeSantis To Take Vaccine & He Responds Perfectly
Vox Popoli: “Bill Gates Is Going Down”, also, The Trotskyite Fraudster
According To Hoyt: When The King Comes Home, also, Happy New Year

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Official Whitewash Of Duncan Lemp’s Killing
American Greatness: Tearing Down The Great Emancipator, also, Doctors, Doctored Numbers, & Democracy
American Power: America Is Still Standing
American Thinker: What AG Barr’s Departure Means For Google, also, The Dangers Of Government Debt
Animal Magnetism: Holiday Totty V
Babalu Blog: The 2020 Economy In Communist Cuba – A Disastrous Year
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For January 1, also, Texas Supremes Also Tell Mayor Adler To Get Stuffed
Cafe Hayek: Some COVID Links
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: The Most Useful New Year’s Advice Post You’ll Read Today
Don Surber: Fighting To Close Schools So She Can Vacation In A COVID Hot Spot
Fred On Everything: The Nobility Of Savages
The Geller Report: Don’t Give Up On President Trump, also, Three Arrested For Brutal Beating & Torture Of Former GOP Senate Candidate
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, New Year’s Prediction For 2021
Hollywood In Toto: Why Freelancers Skipped Hollywood & Went Straight To The People
JustOneMinute: Happier New Year!
The Lid: Congress, Journalists Ranked Among The Worst Professions For Honesty & Ethics
Legal Insurrection: As Big Ben Chimes, UK Ends The EU Era, also, Minneapolis Police Shooting Sparks Protests, But Bodycam Footage Shows Suspect Shot First
Nebraska Energy Observer: Happy New Year
Power Line: How Much Voter Fraud Was There? also, NYT – Covering The Elites, Or Covering For The Elites?
Shark Tank: Blue Dogs Murphy & Crist Urge Biden To Focus On Bipartisanship
Shot In The Dark: Happy New Year!
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Military Ballots Allegedly Altered Into Biden Votes
Victory Girls: Selfish People Spread COVID? Yes, The Politicians Do
Volokh Conspiracy: “Diversity” Nonsense Cost Tens Of Thousands Of Lives
Weasel Zippers: Antifa Vandalizes Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco Home, also, You Couldn’t Go To Times Square For NYE, So Mayor & Mrs. Di Blasio Had It All To Themselves
The Federalist: Trump Admin Shuts Down FDA Attempt To Bill Distillers For Making Hand Sanitizer, also, The Worst Corporate Media Performances Of 2020
Mark Steyn: Happy New Year! also, Ave Atque Vale 2020

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In The Mailbox: 12.31.20

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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