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In The Mailbox: 01.15.20

Posted on | January 15, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.15.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Michael Flynn Moves To Withdraw Plea Bargain
Twitchy: Kamala Harris Wants A Freeze On Judicial Nominations During Impeachment Trial – How About No?
Louder With Crowder: Tranny Jessica Yaniv Goes Berserk, Attacks Reporter
Vox Popoli: The Catholic Convergence, also, An Introduction To Q

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Homosexuality Is Not Good For You
American Conservative: Ike’s Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later
American Greatness: Environmentalists Caused Australia’s Bush Fires, Not “Climate Change”
American Power: Kendra, It’s Not Too Late To Turn Your Life Around
American Thinker: How Scalia Botched Heller & Let The Left Undermine The 2nd Amendment
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Canadian Tourist Assaulted At Cuban Apartheid Resort
BattleSwarm: Project Veritas – Inside Bernie Sanders’ Campaign
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
Camp Of The Saints: Traditional Conservatives & The Struggle Within
CDR Salamander: Why Our Navy Has A Credibility Problem
Da Tech Guy: The #TrumpRally Vs. The #DemDebate In Three Words
Don Surber: Stop Being Goofy, Senator Warren
First Street Journal: The Delaware Liberal Ignores The Sanders/Warren Kerfluffle
The Geller Report: Democrat Savages Block Vote To Support Iran Protesters, also, Iranian Jihadi Arrested Near Mar-A-Lago With Machete Is Refugee
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Zooming In On The Iris Nebula
Hollywood In Toto: Anatomy Of A Cancel Culture Smear, Vince Vaughn Edition
JustOneMinute: Those Sexist Democrats
Legal Insurrection: Pelosi Picks Schiff, Nadler, Five Others As Impeachment Managers, also, Michael Avenatti’s Bail Revoked, Will Remain In Custody Throughout NY Trial
Megan McArdle: Warren & Sanders Pulling Apart In More Ways Than One
Michelle Malkin: Cancel Culture Strikes Again – Banned In Maine
The PanAm Post: Fernandez’ Economic Plan Won’t Save Argentina, also, Trump, Iran, & Latin America
Power Line: Ilhan Omar, Dope, also, Brian Mast Speaks – Silence Ensues
Shark Tank: Teachers Rally For More Education Money
Shot In The Dark: Selective Indignation
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Are People Moving Due To Taxes?
This Ain’t Hell: Colorado Woman Uses Red Flag Law Against Police Officer, also, Creepy Porn Lawyer Strikes Again!
Victory Girls: Romance Writers & The Bullying Woke Scolds
Volokh Conspiracy: A Missed Opportunity
Weasel Zippers: Sanders Staffer Suggests People Who “Resist Change” Would Be Shot & Killed, also, Democrats’ “Bail Reform” Has Already Cost A Life
Mark Steyn: Once More Unto The Breach, also, Notes On A Phenomenon

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The Duchess of Sussex Is a Nasty Whore, and Prince Harry Is a Hopeless Fool

Posted on | January 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Meghan Markle is doing to the British royal family what Yoko Ono did to the Beatles. Prince Harry married a trashy celebrity, who is now starring in her own reality show, Real Housewives of Buckingham Palace or maybe Keeping Up With the Windsors. Harry is being humiliated by his wife who seems determined to make a mockery of the title, Duchess of Sussex, she obtained by marriage. What stupendous ignorance must exist in the mind of this minor American actress, best known for her role as Rachel Zane in seven seasons of the cable-network drama Suits, not to understand that her new role came with certain obligations, chief among them maintaining the dignity of the House of Windsor? Grant that their royal reputation has been tarnished by the Prince of Wales, who divorced Harry’s mother and finally married his mistress, to say nothing of the stain acquired by Uncle Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein (who did not kill himself). Despite such scandals, the royal family has remained generally popular, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has never herself done anything that would detract from that popularity.

Now, however, the 93-year-old Queen might be smeared by the Duchess whom Rod Dreher calls “A Yankee Yoko In Queen Elizabeth’s Court”:

According to the Daily Mail, Meghan fled to Canada, leaving her husband to deal with his family. The Queen asked them not to go public with this stuff yet, but Harry and Meghan defied her. The appalling pair plans to live in Los Angeles eventually, but only after Donald Trump is no longer president (second term!). And — this is the kicker — if they don’t get what they want, including the right to capitalize on their royal status, even though they are bailing on their royal duties, they’re threatening blackmail:

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could give a tell-all interview to their friend Oprah Winfrey if they do not get their way in showdown talks with the royal family at Sandringham, palace aides fear.
Meghan’s US PR team is thought to already be in contact with Oprah, as well as several American TV networks for a potential no-holds barred interview.
Tom Bradby, the ITV journalist who spoke to the Sussexes in their bombshell documentary last year, has already warned that a ‘no-holds barred’ interview could be in the offing.
As well as Oprah, Meghan’s team is believed to have contacted the television networks ABC, NBC and CBS.  Meghan’s mother Doria has also been seen leaving Oprah’s home.
Now, a royal source said: ‘Harry and Meghan’s people have been reaching out to all the big US networks to explore the possibilities of a sit-down warts-and-all interview.
‘Meghan feels she’s been silenced and is no longer prepared to be muted. She and Harry feel the royals have been racist and sexist.’

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Imagine going on TV to denounce your own grandmother as a racist. Now imagine being married to the kind of woman who thinks this threat of a “warts-and-all” interview with Oprah is a clever move. This is all on Harry, you see. As I always say when some man grumbles that his ex-wife is an evil crazy bitch, well, what does that say about you? A man who marries an evil crazy bitch is self-evidently lacking in good judgment. So it is not accurate to say the Duchess of Sussex is making a fool of Harry — he was already a fool.

As to the accusation of royal racism, Professor Reynolds is correct: “If you start with the assumption that charges of racism are usually self-serving twaddle, you’ll usually be right.” Beyond that, however, the very idea of royalty is inherently racist, since it assumes that some people are born with a hereditary superiority. It has always amused me how so many American liberals — especially women — who would never be caught in the same room with a right-winger (because we are all so “racist”), nevertheless often display a starstruck admiration for the British royals. Remember all the emotional gush over Princess Diana’s death? Or what about the media’s fascination with Kate Middleton? Do the American women who fawn over the Windsors not see the contradiction between their hatred of “racism” and their love of British nobility?

Of course, liberals are always contradicting themselves this way. Liberalism is really an expression of ambition, a desire for the kind of elite social status which in a democratic polity can only be obtained by advocating egalitarianism. The American liberal aspires to live like a Kennedy, with guaranteed admission to Harvard as an inherited birthright, but they expect us plebs not to notice the double standard — one rule for them, another rule for the rest of us. The blessings of Equality that liberals promise never seem to materialize, while the liberal elite send their kids to private schools that your kids could never get into (even if you could afford the tuition, which you can’t).

By the way, did you know that Meghan Markle’s parents are divorced, her grandparents were divorced, and both her half-siblings (from her father’s first marriage) are divorced? Meghan herself has already divorced one husband, and if Harry thinks he’s not headed for divorce, he should think again. He is making a public spectacle of himself, and bringing disgrace upon his family, for the sake of a woman who is just using him temporarily — a plaything with which she’ll soon grow tired.

Harry should have read The Rational Male.



 

Category: Celebrities, Great Britain

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Canadian Tranny ‘Jessica’ Yaniv Attacks Reporter

Posted on | January 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

A quick refresher, if you don’t know who Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv is:

Yaniv appeared in court Monday on weapons charges — having allegedly possessed an illegal stun gun — and when a reporter confronted Yaniv outside the courtroom, Yaniv “flew into a rage and charged me,” according to the reporter, Keean Bexte of Rebel News. The attack was captured on camera, with Yaniv shouting: “Get the f–k away from me!” Bexte says he was struck in the head, and that police have been notified.

 

Speaking of dangerous crazy people, six Democrats will be having a debate in Des Moines, Iowa, tonight. It will be televised on an obscure cable channel known as “CNN.” Perhaps you’ve heard of it.



 

Category: Canada, Crime, The Transgender Cult

In The Mailbox: 01.14.20

Posted on | January 14, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.14.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Will There Be A Sanders/Warren Showdown?
Twitchy: James O’Keefe – Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Operation Is Locking Down Twitter Accounts & Their Field Office
Louder With Crowder: Actor Vince Vaughn Was Polite With Trump At Clemson-LSU Game. Now The Left Wants Him Destroyed.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Sir Roger Scruton, also, Podcast #131 – The Z-Man Vs. Vox Day Grudge Match
American Conservative: Senator McConnell Should Recuse Himself From Impeachment Now
American Greatness: Sanders Field Organizer Says MAGA People Need Reeducation In Gulags
American Thinker: An Introduction To Q
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Brain Development News
Babalu Blog: Bernie Sanders Despised JFK For Criticizing The Castro Regime
Baldilocks: Halfrican Keeps It Real About Why 3rd World Immigrants Come To America
BattleSwarm: Did Commie Losers Assault Austin Democrat?
Cafe Hayek: Navarro’s Unintentionally Hilarious Apologies For Protectionism
Camp Of The Saints: And Iran/I Ran So Far Away
CDR Salamander: Summer 2017’s JAG Backwash
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – A Sampler, also, Trump & The NIle
Don Surber: It Is Even Better, Glenn
First Street Journal: There Are A Few Good Democrats Out There!
The Geller Report: Christian Bride, Ten Others En Route To Her Wedding Beheaded By Muslims, also, 42.8% Of Trump Ohio Rally Attendees Identified As Democrats Or Independents
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Buyer’s Remorse
Hollywood In Toto: Media – Oscars Too White, Too Male, & Too Apolitical
Legal Insurrection: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Raves “You Have Nazis Walking Around Because Of Trump”, also, #RefundWarren – Sanders Supporters Go Ballistic On Warren Over Last-Minute Sexism Claim
The PanAm Post: Ricky Gervais Calls Out Hollywood’s Social Justice Hypocrisy
Power Line: Iran’s State News Anchor Resigns, also, We Now Know – FISA Court Must Go
Shark Tank: Loomer Says Frankel Voted “To Protect The Terrorist Regime In Iran”
Shot In The Dark: Order
The Political Hat: Los Angeles To Go Full-In With Racial Equity
This Ain’t Hell: Larry Mitchell “Tubby” Hopkins – Update, also, Virginia Democrat Says Too Many 2A Supporters Have Mental Issues
Victory Girls: Bernie Organizer Tells Project Veritas Gulags Are Awesome
Volokh Conspiracy: President Rejects Premise Of DOJ Briefs In ACA Case
Weasel Zippers: Donald & Melania Greeted With Roaring Applause At College Football National Championship, also, Project Veritas Drops Video On Sanders Staffer Talking Re-Education, Nazis, & Promising “Milwaukee Will Burn”
Mark Steyn: Lion Kings & Desperate Dukes, also, Orange Man Bad

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‘Threatened Species’

Posted on | January 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

In May last year — late fall in the inverted seasons Down Under — an official of Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in New South Wales (NSW) wanted the public to know that it was a crime for them to collect firewood for the winter:

NPWS Central West Area Manager Fiona Buchanan said the warning to residents around Condobolin, Bathurst, Dubbo, Forbes and Grenfell is timely as it follows a man being fined $30,000 for illegally collecting firewood in the Murrumbidgee Valley National Park.
“We are getting the message out there that removing firewood, including deadwood and fallen trees, is not permitted in national parks,” Ms Buchanan said.
“We want people to know the rules around firewood collection, particularly during the school holidays when more people are visiting national parks. . . .
“Many ground dwelling animals and threatened species use tree hollows for nesting so when fallen trees and deadwood is taken illegally, it destroys their habitat.
“This fallen timber is part of these animals’ natural ecosystem,” Ms Buchanan said.

Such concern for “ground dwelling animals” — $30,000 fines! — may be implicated in Australia’s current wildfires, says Tim Blair:

Those natural ecosystems are now, across thousands of hectares of national parks in New South Wales, nothing but cinders and ash. Enjoy your protected habitat, little ground-dwellers.

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Remember, despite the arrest of some 200 arsonists implicated in the Australian fires, the media insist that it is a “conspiracy theory” to doubt that “climate change” has caused this disaster. Those who call attention to facts that don’t fit the climate-change narrative are “exaggerating the role of arson in the ongoing bushfires . . . feeding a right-wing conspiracy theory,” we are told by activist Ketan Joshi. Arson is “a moot point, anyway,” he tells us, because “climate change makes fire spread quicker and through a larger area, rather than igniting blazes.” But his argument begins by embedding an assumption (“climate change” is to blame) as its first premise, so that if drafted as a syllogism, this is what Joshi is saying:

A. Climate change makes wildfires worse;
B. There are wildfires in Australia;

ergo

C: The wildfires in Australia were made worse by climate change.

This is a tautology, rather than an actual argument. And if you are familiar with the myth-making machinery of “climate change,” you will not be surprised to learn that when MSNBC needed an “expert” to explain the Australian wildfires, their guest was Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, who will sue you if you suggest he’s engaged in massive fraud.

 



 

Category: Australia, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Media Bias, Science

Soros-Funded Crime Spree Continues

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 2 Comments

Police say Sienna Carter (left) was kidnapped by King John Baylon (right).

After 13-year-old Sienna Carter vanished in downtown San Francisco a week ago, a frantic search ensued. The girl was found, a suspect was arrested but now has been set free to prey on other children. Why? In recent years, progressives funded by billionaire George Soros have pursued an agenda of targeting elections for state attorneys general and local district attorneys, while simultaneously promoting so-called “bail reform” initiatives. The combined effect of these left-wing programs is that dangerous criminals are turned loose on the street:

A 22-year-old Los Angeles man arrested earlier this week in connection with the weekend disappearance of a 13-year-old Mendocino County girl visiting San Francisco with her family has been released from jail pending charges.
As the Chronicle is reporting, the District Attorney’s Office — the leadership of which changes today with the swearing in of Chesa Boudin — decided to delay a charging decision in the case. Only yesterday, the paper reported that the suspect, King John Baylon, was facing 18 felonies including possession or control of child pornography, using a minor for sex acts, and kidnapping for child molestation. It’s unclear what prompted the decision to delay charges, but all suspects are legally allowed to get out of jail if prosecutors do not file charges within 48 hours of their arrest.
A spokesperson for the DA’s Office, Alex Bastian, simply said that the case remains under investigation.
Following two days of frantic efforts by the girl’s family, on social and television media, to locate her, both the girl and Baylon were spotted by bystanders who recognized her at the Ferry Building. Authorities believe that Baylon met the girl . . . on the internet. The girl came to the city with her family so that her sister could receive treatment for diabetes at UCSF’s Madison Clinic for Pediatric Diabetes. She reportedly claimed she was feeling carsick and she was then seen on surveillance video exiting the hospital. She was later spotted at a local restaurant, where she met up with the suspect.
Baylon was arrested by UCSF police, and the extent of the pending charges against him suggest that the girl may have been recruited for sex trafficking. The pending charges also included meeting a minor for lewd purposes, arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes, contact with a minor for sexual offense, lewd acts upon a child, human trafficking involving a minor, and oral copulation of a person under 18.

So a sex trafficker kidnaps a 13-year-old girl and, because of “bail reform,” this creep is now back on the street, whereabouts unknown.

Thanks a lot, “progressives”!



 

Category: California, Crime

In The Mailbox: 01.13.20

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: 1917 – A Review, also, Iranian Protesters Call For Supreme Leader To Resign
Twitchy: Cory Booker Suspends His Campaign, President Trump Trolls Him Unmercifully
Louder With Crowder: “Human Ken Doll” Comes Out As Transwoman, Insults Women With Female Stereotypes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Book Reviews – Those Kittens Aren’t Going To Sacrifice Themselves, also, Stunning & Brave
American Conservative: The Passing Of A Giant
American Greatness: Christopher Wray Isn’t The Right Man To Fix The FBI, also, Texas Newspapers Criticize Governor For Refusing To Take More Refugees
American Thinker: Trump Is Masterfully Using Democrats’ Opposition Against Them, also, Don Cherry & The Alpha White Male
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Offers Condolence Book For Dead Iranian Terrorist Soleimani, also, Ousted President Morales Vows To Create Armed Militias If He Returns To Bolivia
BattleSwarm: Huge Protests In Iran, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
Cafe Hayek: Alcohol Prohibition 100 Years Later, also, Subsidy Silliness
CDR Salamander: Stress Tested A Sealift Surge? How’d It Go?
Da Tech Guy: Boy George, Voice Of Reality, also, Preserving Freedom Of Reviews
Don Surber: One Missile, One Iranian Regime Change
First Street Journal: To The Left, Liberty & Freedom Mean Fascism & Authoritiarianism
The Geller Report: Muslim Slashes Tires At 19 Illinois Churches, also, Only 45 Show Up For Bloomberg Rally With Judge Judy
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, When The Narrative Fails
Hollywood In Toto: Colorado Critics Name 1917 Year’s Best Film, also, Deadline – Audiences Reject “Boss”-Like Female Empowerment
JustOneMinute: Cory Booker Out, Bernie Surging
Legal Insurrection: CA Gov Newsom Wants To Fund Healthcare For Illegal Immigrant Seniors, also Cory Booker Drops Out
Megan McArdle: Want To Avoid The January Gym Rush?
The PanAm Post: The Battle For Bolivia & A Bolivarian Spain
Power Line: Sir Roger Scruton, RIP, also, Pelosi Unhinged
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Outraises Democrats In 4th Quarter
Shot In The Dark: A Farewell To King
STUMP: Meep In 2020 – A Few Notes On Where To Find Me
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Updates On Virginia Gun Issues, also, Another Two Return
Victory Girls: Just Stop – The Queen Is Not A Racist
Volokh Conspiracy: Public Education As Public Indoctrination
Weasel Zippers: Iranian People Refuse To Walk On American, Israeli Flags, also, Pelosi Says “One Way Or Another” Trump Will Not Be President In Ten Months
Mark Steyn: All About Eve, also, A Ribband Of Red, A Rose Of Shame

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Warren Fades; Democrats Worried UPDATE: Cory Booker Drops Out

Posted on | January 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

With the final pre-Iowa debate looming Tuesday night, the 2020 presidential campaign is looking shaky for Democrats. Unless you believe Joe Biden can beat Trump — and I’m not sure Biden can even make it to the end of February — any Democrat has got to be worried about Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist, becoming their 2020 nominee.

For most of last year, the way for Democrats to avoid this Biden/Bernie dilemma was obvious: Elizabeth Warren was, on the one hand, wired into the party establishment and, on the other hand, willing to go whole-hog on the kind of anti-“Corporate America” theme that Sanders represents. Also, as an identity-politics bonus, Warren was female and thus could appeal to the women still butthurt over Hillary’s defeat.

Alas, things started going bad last fall for the Warren campaign, which was forced to fire national organizing director Rich McDaniel amid accusations of “inappropriate behavior.” Warren, who had actually been leading in Iowa (in early October, she had a 5-point lead on Biden in the Real Clear Politics average of Iowa polls), began fading quickly, and by early December was in third place behind Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in the RCP Iowa average. Meanwhile, two billionaires — Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg — began pouring millions of dollars into their vanity campaigns, with the result that Steyer now leads Warren in the most recent polls of two early states, Nevada and South Carolina. (Hat-tip: Lawrence Person’s BattleSwarm blog.) Considering the reports that Warren is having fundraising trouble, she may be doomed, and meanwhile Bernie is still chugging along, which brings us to another problem now confronting Democrats:

Only white candidates have qualified for [Tuesday’s] Democratic presidential debate, the first time in this election cycle that no minority contender will make the stage. It’s a dynamic that critics say threatens to undercut the party’s rhetoric of inclusivity.
The race for the 2020 Democratic nomination kicked off last year with a historically diverse pool of candidates, including two black senators, a black mayor, a Hispanic former Cabinet secretary and an Asian businessman. Since then, all have either dropped out or failed to qualify for a spot on the stage, determined by poll numbers and donations.
Now the specter of an all-white debate in the mostly white state of Iowa is prompting concern among party activists.
“Both the way the primary is set up and the way debates are done are a problem,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, a racial justice organization. “The system they have designed has suppressed the most loyal base of the Democratic Party.”
He added: “Anyone with an understanding of civil rights law understands how the rules can be set up to benefit some communities. The Democratic Party should look at the impact of these rules and question the results.”

Yeah, baby — “the most loyal base” is being “suppressed” — that paranoid sense of betrayal might not turn many black voters into Republicans, but it sure as heck sounds like an ill omen for Democrats when November rolls around. “Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen . . .”

UPDATE: Breaking just now:

Obviously, this proves that the Democrat Party hates black men.



 

Category: Debates, Democrats, Iowa, Polls
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