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In The Mailbox: 08.11.20

Posted on | August 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Floridians Almost As Heavily Armed As Texans
EBL: The Wheels Of Kamala Harris’ Bus Go Thump Thump Thump Over Joe Biden
Twitchy: LA Times Notes That Hollywood Is Celebrating Joe Biden’s VP Pick, Which Is Always A Good Sign
Louder With Crowder: Tucker Carlson Blasts Brian Stelter – Not Even He Watches CNN
Vox Popoli: The End Of Pax Americana, also, Bloodbath At DC Comics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Could The Polls Be Hiding A Trump Landslide
American Greatness: Sen. Cotton Tells Higher Ed – Loosen Up Or Lose Your Money
American Power: California’s Grim Coronavirus Milestone
American Thinker: The Mainstream Media Is At The Point Of No Return
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily First Fire News
Babalu Blog: Dem Rep. Mucarsel-Powell Shouts Her Contempt For Cuban-Americans Over Megaphone
BattleSwarm: Joe Rogan Leaving California For Austin, also, “Let’s Have A War!”
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Zugzwang Naval Advocacy
Da Tech Guy: Did Chicago Really Think This Would Stay In The Black Neighborhoods? also, Report From Louisiana – Phase 2, Hybrid School
Don Surber: Treat Kamala Like The Democrats Treated Palin, also, 37 States Even With Mail Fraud Voting
First Street Journal: Rights Delayed Are Rights Denied, also, Even The Washington Post Says Amy McGrath Henderson Is A Liar
The Geller Report: Seattle’s Black Police Chief Resigns After White Democrats On City Council Vote To Cut Police Budget, also, Mayor Groot Rejects National Guard For Chicago After Night Of Pillage & Rioting
Hogewash: Jezero Crater On Mars, also, Heard At The In Re Flynn Hearing
Hollywood In Toto: Ode To Minneapolis Bookstores Burned In Rioting, also, Comedians Against Comedy Skewers Woke Stand-Ups
JustOneMinute: Any Day Now!
The Lid: New York State’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths Undercounted By Thousands
Legal Insurrection: Chicago #BLM Leader Declares Looting Gucci & Macy’s “Reparations”, also, Flashback – That Time Kamala Harris Said She Believed Joe Biden’s Accusers
The PanAm Post: Venezuela Running Out Of Iranian Gasoline
Power Line: What The Media Can & Can’t Say About Biden’s VP Pick, also, The Truth About Biden Is Getting Out
Shark Tank: Florida’s Congressional Democrats Plead For Mask Mandate
Shot In The Dark: Almost As If By Plan
The Political Hat: Anti-Cancellation Clause, also, The Real History Of Slavery
This Ain’t Hell: WW2 Hero Being Considered For Medal Of Honor, also, Dear Abby, What Should I Do About Dad?
Victory Girls: Will Minnesota Voters Fire Ilhan Omar?
Volokh Conspiracy: Judge Condemns Excessive Requests To Seal
Weasel Zippers: Biden Lies About Trump Defunding Social Security, Twitter Does Nothing, also, Wikileaks Releases Treasure Trove Of Documents On Kamala Harris
The Federalist: Governors Can’t Use Coronavirus To Declare Indefinite State Of Emergency, also, Dear Sarah Jeong – If America Were Anything Like Red China, You’d Be In Jail
Mark Steyn: Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, also, Who Needs The Plague?

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Kamala the Cop Is Biden’s VP Pick

Posted on | August 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

She has accused him of sexual assault and racism, but nevertheless, the junior senator from California gets the nod from old Joe:

On Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced that he had tapped Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate for the November election. Harris ran against Biden in the 2020 primary, and she did not do particularly well. She did, however, repeatedly attack the former vice president. . . .
Harris’s big stand-out moment came in the first Democratic debate. In an orchestrated moment, she attacked frontrunner Joe Biden for opposing forced busing for racial integration. Not only did Kamala exaggerate her history, but she seized on a rather unpopular issue. School choice is a far better and more popular solution to educational disparities. While Kamala enjoyed a short-lived bump in the polls, her standout moment faded quickly. . . .
Harris also said she believed Biden’s accusers when women came forward accusing him of making inappropriate sexual moves on them.
Kamala Harris fizzled out before the year 2020 began. She’s divisive and unappealing, and by choosing her, Biden has handed a great deal of ammunition to President Donald Trump.

My hunch had been that Biden would pick Susan Rice, but I guess he figured Kamala’s baggage was less burdensome than Rice’s.




 

Category: Democrats, Joe Biden

Chicago: Crime City, U.S.A.

Posted on | August 11, 2020 | 3 Comments

Yesterday’s report of widespread looting in downtown Chicago was followed by an even more shocking report, that a mob of protesters showed up at the jail demanding release of the looters arrested:

Black Lives Matter Chicago said early Monday’s looting of stores was a form of ‘reparations’ as the group held a protest Monday night in support of the more than 100 people arrested after an evening of violence.
Downtown Chicago was otherwise quiet after authorities cut off access, with drawbridges leading into the city pulled up and freeway exits blocked after riots sparked by a false rumor of a child shot by police.
At least 13 police officers were injured as the violence claimed an estimated $65 million in property damage.
Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, called the looting ‘reparations’.
‘I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,’ Atkins said. ‘That makes sure that person has clothes.
‘Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.’

This is now the de facto platform of the Democratic Party. These riots — vandalism, arson, looting — are in fact Joe Biden rallies, where Democrat voters show up to take what they want and do as they please, and the politicians they elect will protect their “right” to steal and destroy.

The local prosecutor in Chicago, Kim Foxx, has dropped felony charges against 25,183 defendants in the past three years. These criminals are Demkocratic voters set free to terrorize the community, with impunity from prosecution. There is neither safety for human life nor security for property in Chicago, a city governed by Democrats on behalf of the criminals who rule the city’s streets. So when merchants close their businesses, when real-estate values plummmet, thus depriving the city government of tax revenues, Democrats will be left in charge of a bankrupt ghost town, and expect a bailout from federal taxpayers.




 

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.10.20

Posted on | August 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Bacon Time: My Advice For The President
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Violent Offenders In Jail Is Unfair
EBL: Arkansas – A Review
Twitchy: Democrat Strategist, Obama Ad Maker Accuses Trump Of Staging Shooting, Tries To Delete Tweet – TOO LATE!
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Defends Chicago Looters
Vox Popoli: No Backsies, also, Noone Wants To Go Down With Creepy Joe

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Short Break
American Conservative: Neocon Wolves In #NeverTrumper Sheep Clothes
American Greatness: Who Or What Exactly Is Running Against Trump? also, The Singularity Is Near
American Power: California To Empty Prisons, Dump Murderers On The Street
American Thinker: Sweden Was Right & We Were Wrong, also, Should Motorists Run Over Anarchists At Impromptu Roadblocks?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Imprisoned Cuban Dissident Dies After 40-Day Hunger Strike, also, Cuban Slave Doctors In Venezuela Paid $4/Month
BattleSwarm: Did Anyone Have “Rabid Bat” On Their 2020 Bingo Card? also, BidenWatch For August 10
Cafe Hayek: You Did PAY For That!
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Quick Bidenball Quips Under The Fedora, also, To Leftists Like Lori Lightfoot, They’re Not People They’re Automatons
Don Surber: Annie Gets Her Gun, Trump Gets Her Vote, also, Democrat Death Wish Explained
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable!
Fred On Everything: Armageddon With Pompeo
The Geller Report: Mass Looting & Mayhem Hits Chicago, also, Democrats House Homeless Sex Offenders In NYC Hotel One Block Away From School
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, And Now Chicago
Hollywood In Toto: Cut Throat City Is Spike Lee Without The Substance, also, Revenge Of The Drive-In Movie Theater
JustOneMinute: Away We Go!
The Lid: Antifa Goes To Fort Collins, Gets Their Butts Kicked
Legal Insurrection: Over 100 Arrested In Chicago During Night Of Looting & Rioting, also, Group Behind Occupy Wall Street Planning 50-Day “White House Siege” During Election Day
The PanAm Post: Maduro Lying About Coronavirus Numbers
Power Line: Barr Unbound, also, American Cities In Catastrophic Decline
Shark Tank: Laura Loomer Scores Two Huge Endorsements
Shot In The Dark: Under Bus Shoved
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – CA, IL Executive Resignations, Spiking v. California Rule, & More!
The Political Hat: 2+2 != 5
This Ain’t Hell: FSBO, Unique Fixer-Upper Opportunity, also, Two Former Green Berets Get 20 Years For Venezuelan Raid
Victory Girls: Can Congress Succeed In Lobotomizing The Civil War?
Volokh Conspiracy: The Mechanics Of President Trump’s Payroll Tax Deferral Memo
Weasel Zippers: New Information Alleges Multiple Felonies Committed By Ilhan Omar, also, Black-Owned Restaurants Trashed By Antifa During Portland Rioting
Mark Steyn: The “Blow Up Your School” Subgenre, also, Terrors & Triumphs

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Probably Not Trump Voters: Looters Smash Stores in Downtown Chicago

Posted on | August 10, 2020 | 4 Comments

 

Democrats are all about social justice, and by “social justice,” I mean smashing windows and looting luxury stores:

Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores, confronting police and at one point exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.
The officers had stopped several people on Lake Street near Michigan Avenue when shots were fired from a passing car around 4:30 a.m., nearly five hours into the widespread vandalism, according to police spokesman Tom Ahern. No officers were shot but a squad car was hit, he said. It was not known if anyone in the gunman’s car was shot.
Ahern said other officers were injured through the night. Earlier, an officer was seen slumped against a building by Grand and Wabash avenues as other other cops tended to him. It was unclear what had happened to him. Ahern had no details on the injuries.
The looting began shortly after midnight as people darted through broken store windows and doors along Michigan Avenue carrying shopping bags full of merchandise. Cars dropped off more people as the crowd grew. At least one U-Haul van was seen pulling up. . . .
The looting seemed to be centered in Streeterville and North Michigan Avenue, but some looting was reported on State Street in the Loop and on the Near North Side. By 4 a.m. police appeared to be getting things under control.
But some vandalism continued into the daylight hours, and the CTA suspended train and bus service into downtown during the morning rush, while the Illinois state police blocked off ramps from expressways. Bridges across the Chicago River were raised, except for the one on LaSalle Street for emergency vehicles. . . .
Crowds repeatedly tried to bash in the windows of the Omega watch store at Delaware Place and Michigan Avenue.
“The watch store,” one officer said. “They’re gonna get it eventually.”
A group of people went in and out through a broken window of the Louis Vuitton store along Walton Place across the street from the Drake Hotel. A squad car drove by and the group ran away.

Louis Vuitton, Omega — “social justice” is all about name-brand value. If you don’t understand why it was necessary to loot these stores, that’s probably because you’re a racist Republican:

Officers were responding to a call of a man with a firearm and when police arrived and saw someone matching the description, the suspect fled, leading to a chase. He allegedly turned around and fired shots at the police officers who returned fire and hit the suspect.
A rumor was spread that police hit a child, the Chicago Tribune reports, and a crowd gathered to face off against police. . . .
Tensions carried on throughout the night and spread across the city, resulting in widespread rioting and looting.

Got that? A suspect shoots at the police, the police shoot back, somebody starts a rumor that cops shot a child, so it’s time for looting!

John Hoge: “Chicago used to be an interesting place to visit and do business, but it is now a failing city in a failing state.”

Lots of Biden voters in Chicago, I guess.




 

Category: Chicago, Crime

Probably Not Trump Voters: 20 Shot When Gunfight Breaks Out at D.C. Party

Posted on | August 10, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Dubois Place is a block-long street in an area of southeastern Washington, D.C., that is overwhelmingly black and, by “overwhelmingly black” I mean like Mogadishu, it’s so black. Despite the draconian COVID-19 policies imposed by the city’s mayor, some residents of the community decided to hold a massive block party Saturday night, which they advertised on social media, attracting hundreds of revelers. The risk of infection was exceeded by the risk of dying in a hail of bullets:

A 17-year-old was killed and an off-duty D.C. police officer suffered life-threatening injuries after authorities said at least 20 people were shot when a dispute broke out early Sunday at a cookout attended by hundreds of people in Southeast Washington.
D.C. police said at least three shooters opened fire from different locations about 12:30 a.m. on Dubois Place in the Greenway neighborhood, sending panicked partygoers racing for cover and others screaming for friends and relatives.
The dead teenager was identified as Christopher Brown.
“I really don’t understand how my child’s life is just gone,” said the victim’s mother, Artecka Brown, 33. She said she last spoke to her son two days ago when she hugged him and told him “I love you.”
The unidentified off-duty police officer, who apparently was at the party, was critically injured and was “fighting for her life,” D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said. Officials said the officer, who is 22 years old and has been on the force about one year, was struck in the neck.
Authorities said there was a dispute before shots were fired, and police said they think there were exchanges of gunfire. At least 11 of the victims were women. Police initially said 21 people had been shot but later determined one of the injured victims had not been struck by a bullet.
Videos posted on social media show revelers partying shoulder-to-shoulder near Dubois Place at 34th Street SE. After the shots, some victims fell while others scattered; the crime scene sprawled for blocks, with police marking 170 pieces of evidence. Police said nearly 100 bullets were fired.
The party and the tragedy that ensued revived questions about large gatherings that flout Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s order that prohibits groups larger than 50 people and requires those older than 2 to wear a mask when they leave home and are likely to come into contact with others. The mask requirement, one of the strictest in the nation, was toughened recently after cases began to spike.

Police are searching for the suspects, who were not wearing red MAGA hats. The mayor doesn’t allow public gatherings in her city, unless they’re rioters tearing down statues, or block partiers who start shooting each other after midnight. Like I said, it’s Mogadishu.

By the way, notice that the dead 17-year-old’s mother is only 33, which means she was 16 when her son, the oldest of her five children, was born. Artecka Brown is already a grandmother, since Christopher Brown became a father last year at age 16. But blame Trump for that, I guess.




 

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Anna Kendrick

Posted on | August 10, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy birthday to actress Anna Kendrick, who is 34 today. Miss Kendrick rose to fame on the strength of her appearances in a couple of the Twilight movies and Pitch Perfect. Here she is where all the hot babes belong this time of year – in the pool.

ara ara…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1070, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Election Odds Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Julie London, The Magic Flute, Les Contes d’Hoffman, Rilo Kiley, Simon Boccanegra, Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, Agrippina, Sturgis 2020, More Sturgis 2020, Don Giovanni, and Camel Tow.

A View From The Beach: Thirty Five Years of Ava Fabian, Virginia to Manage Menhaden as Fish Food, Fish Pic Friday – Sarah Melia, Thursday Tanlines, More Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tats, “Never See The Light” and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive: Angelique Pettijohn

Bacon Time: Blowing In The Wind

Red Pilled Jew: Women  – Sand, Sun, & Surf

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

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The Centurion, Some Collections, & A Fistful Of Manga

Posted on | August 9, 2020 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho

Leonard Wibberley is best known for his hilarious Cold War comedy The Mouse That Roared, which was later made into a fine movie starring Peter Sellers, but today I want to talk about a more serious Wibberley novel, The Centurion. The novel is about the Roman centurion, Longinus, who appears at several points in the Gospel, most notably when he pleads with Jesus to save his dying servant, and again during the Passion when he bears witness to Christ’s divinity. Wibberley shows us the man behind the legend, a man with the thankless job of maintaining the peace in this troublesome province of the Roman Empire, filled with people who hate and fear the Romans only slightly less than they hate each other. Longinus has served Rome for decades, and when we meet him, he is a man without dreams or ambition, who just wants to do his job, but there’s this Jewish rabbi wandering around preaching and performing miracles…stirring up the people and making procurator Pontius Pilate worried. In addition to Longinus, we also meet Jesus and his disciples, the latter of which are a long way from being the saints and legends they’ll become. It is because Longinus seeks Jesus’ help that Pilate puts him in charge of the crucifixion detail, and ultimately, gives him charge of the detail watching the grave as well. It is not a cheerful novel; no account of the Passion could be, but it is nonetheless a novel full of hope, and one that will make you think. Recommended.

Give Me LibertyCon is an all-star anthology done as a benefit for the scholarship fund named for the late founder of LibertyCon, Tim Bolgeo. There’s a lot of Tuckerizing going on here, and I probably would have enjoyed the collection more if I knew who even half of these people were.

I’m not quite done with Noir Fatale, edited by Larry Correia and Kacey Ezell, because I can only read so much noir SF/fantasy at a time. If that’s your thing, you’ll really like Noir Fatale, and if not, you should look elsewhere. Maybe at SPOTREPS, a collection of near-future combat SF concerned with a low-intensity war between Red China and the U.S., with an expy for Antifa on the side of the Chinese and a motley crew of local police, sheriffs, and militia doing most of the fighting. Edited by Peter Nealen, SPOTREPS has stories by Larry Correia, Brad Torgerson, and my buddy Jonathan LaForce, who cleverly sneaks a romance into the middle of a militia forward observer team making the lives of the “assisting” Red Chinese miserable by reaching out and touching them with 155mm artillery. Recommended.

I’m still following Komi Can’t Communicate, whose eighth volume is due out next week, because it’s a really touching story about a girl who can’t talk to people except through her phone or by writing on her notepad. There is the usual assortment of weird high-school classmates to lighten things up, but the main plot is about her normal classmate Tadano helping Komi reach her goal of making 100 friends.

As you all know, I’m hopelessly addicted to the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. If mobile games aren’t your thing, and you don’t want to wade through the jungle of visual novels, anime, and whatnot that make up the Fate franchise, I recommend Fate/Grand Order – Mortalis: Stella, the first in a series of manga that explain how little old no-talent you and your confused kouhai got drafted to (literally) save the world.  Does a good job of pulling together some details that aren’t immediately clear in the game or are dealt with there in flashbacks. Recommended. On the other hand, Today’s Menu For The Emiya Family is a weird combination of manga and cookbook in which the many characters of Fate/Stay Night come by and help with dinner. If you like cookbooks with slice-of-life stories in between the recipes, this is the kind of manga you will like.

Next week, if all goes well, the final (maybe) novel in Tom Kratman’s Carreraverse and some other stuff.

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