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In The Mailbox: 09.08.20 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 8, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Mandatory catch-up post on account of how I was lazy yesterday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Because Nothing Is More Important Than The Rules
Bacon Time: I’ll Take “Staying With The Hoax” For $400, Alex
Red Pilled Jew: The War On Children
EBL: Orange Moon Bad!
Twitchy: Greg Gutfeld Roasts Kamala Harris’ Handlers After Her Appearance Cut Short With No Questions From Media
Louder With Crowder: Peaceful #BLM Protesters Attack & Terrorize Restaurant Patrons In Upstate NY
Vox Popoli: An Ambush In Portland, also, Reality Check

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Unbelievable Edition
American Conservative: If Trump Pardons Snowden, He’ll Have My Vote
American Greatness: Desperately Derailing Donald, also, Conservative Clergy Of Color Coalition Preaches Against “Anti-American” Black Lives Matter
American Power: Perry Anderson, Lineages of The Absolutist State
American Thinker: Anatomy Of Another Fake Scandal, also, The Democrats Plan To Steal The Presidency
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: How Cuban-Americans Self-Identify, also, Happy Capitalism Day
BattleSwarm: Trump Orders Purge Of Critical Race Theory, also, BidenWatch For September 7
Cafe Hayek: “I’d Like TWO Yachts!”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Navy Tone Deaf On Religion, Again
Da Tech Guy: Normalizing Deviance On Abortion & MAGA, also, OK, Who Had “The Return Of Polio” On Their 2020 Bingo Cards?
Don Surber: Liberals Shouldn’t Want a Direct Vote, also, America Needs Freedom From The Press
First Street Journal: I Know, I Know…, also, Is Andy Beshear Really This Dumb?
Fred On Everything: Race – A Very, Very Dismal Reality
The Geller Report: Raging “Foreign Man” With Knife Attempts To Enter Jewish School Bus, also, President Trump Says Schools Teaching “1619 Project” Will Not Be Funded
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Mandy Nagy, Six Years Later
Hollywood In Toto: Gone With The Wind Gets ANOTHER Warning Label, also, The Unfamiliar Proves Unforgivable For Horror Fans And Hawaiians
JustOneMinute: COVID & The Common Cold
The Lid: EXCLUSIVE – Anonymous Sources Report The Atlantic’s Sources Are Lying Pedophiles
Legal Insurrection: White GWU Prof Admits She Lied About Being Black, also, Biden-Harris ClusterFrack
Michelle Malkin: Plight Of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing To Celebrate
The PanAm Post: Diego Arria Complains Elliott Abrams’ Comments “Rude & Untimely”
Power Line: Ric Grenell Rips The White House Press, also, Joe Biden’s America
Shark Tank: Leo Valentin Hits Rep. Murphy For Failure To Denounce Rioting, Support Police
Shot In The Dark: Labor Day
STUMP: Happy Labor Day! Pension Retrospective
The Political Hat: The Woke Revolution Torches Its Own
This Ain’t Hell: Phase III Coronavirus Trials Scheduled For Five Military Bases, also, Chinese Group Attempting To Raise WW2 “Flying Tiger” P-40 From Lakebed
Victory Girls: Rich Kids Love A Good Rampage
Volokh Conspiracy: If Employers Believe Hearing The Mandarin Word “Neige” Affects Black Students Mental Health…
Weasel Zippers: Black Bloc Antifa March Through Chinatown Chanting “Death To America”, also, Growing Numbers Of District Attorneys Are Out To Undermine The Law
The Federalist: Atlantic Editor Concedes Central Claim Of Trump Hit Piece Could Be Wrong, also, The Media Are Lying About The Election Again
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman – Christians, Come Back, also, Summer Of Sam

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Category: Linkagery

Why White Lives Don’t Matter

Posted on | September 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

No, I’m not talking about this — not yet, maybe later today — but rather about an interesting fact you probably haven’t noticed: Nobody cares how many white suspects get shot by cops. And I mean absolutely nobody cares. Certainly no black person has ever bothered to investigate how often the police shoot white suspects, but white people don’t care, either. Like, if I got pulled over by cops tomorrow and became belligerent when they tried to arrest me, nobody would care if this resulted in me being shot to death. My own family wouldn’t really care. My friends would be like, “He probably had it coming. He was always an idiot.”

There would be no protest marches. Benjamin Crump wouldn’t be all over CNN complaining about the “excessive force” if I got shot by cops. And this is not just true for me, but of any other white person.

Why is this? It’s because the Left has convinced a sizable percentage of Americans — especially the kind of fools who vote for Democrats — that the law is fundamentally unjust. To the Left, law is always an expression of political power and, because “people of color” are alleged to be oppressed, therefore the law is an expression of injustice. So when the cop attempts to enforce the law, according to this leftist worldview, the correct thing to do is to resist this oppressive power.

You were driving 20 miles over the speed limit with an expired tag and no insurance? You’re a victim of injustice! That cop is an oppressor! 

This idea that police, merely by enforcement of well-known laws, are acting as agents of “systemic racism,” explains why there must be riots every time a black person gets shot by cops, whereas CNN can’t even be bothered to notice when the cops kill white people:

Freddrick Hadden was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy in Burke County, Georgia. A habitual felon who had only recently been released from prison, Hadden had kidnapped his ex-wife at gunpoint. When Deputy Eric Madison pursued Hadden to a home near Hephzibah, the woman escaped Hadden’s vehicle. She was shot twice by Hadden before Deputy Madison returned fire, killing the kidnapper and saving the woman’s life.
That incident in August 2019 attracted no national media interest. CNN didn’t cover it, there were no protests, and Joe Biden has never mentioned it. Perhaps that’s because Freddrick Hadden was white and Deputy Madison is black.
For months, Biden and his media allies have abetted #BlackLivesMatter activists in inciting racial fear and hatred, claiming that “systemic racism” by police accounts for the deaths of black suspects at the hands of police. Even though research clearly disproves such claims, the facts haven’t stopped Democrats from trying to exploit this slanderous narrative in their effort to defeat President Trump. . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: American Spectator, Crime

Antifa Inferno: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Rioter Torched by Molotov Cocktail in Portland

Posted on | September 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Just another fun Saturday night in Antifatown:

A firebomb thrown by rioters at police in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night set a “protester” on fire, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Video taken at the scene and retweeted by the police showed fire erupting in the middle of a street, as a man caught in the flames attempted to run out of the way. He emerged with his legs ablaze, as rioters attempted to help him. . . .
Reporter Andy Ngô of the Post Millenial tweeted that Antifa and Black Lives Matter staged the riot to mark more than 100 days of violent protest in Portland since the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. . . .
Earlier Saturday, the Oregonian remarked on the 100-day anniversary of violent demonstrations: “In Portland, the whitest major city in the U.S., demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality have stretched for 100 straight days, sparking unprecedented cuts to the city police bureau, night after night of violence by law enforcement officers and protesters, presidential condemnation and national attention.”
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has refused support from President Donald Trump, blaming him for the violence.

Everybody on Twitter had fun by creating videos of the flaming Antifa set to music, e.g., “Cotton Eye Joe”:

Yes, even President Trump got in on the fun. More seriously, research shows how widespread the mob violence has been this year:

New data from Princeton University show that riots associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States.
The study found:

In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations, meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations ?— under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests. . . .

The Princeton data set shows that nearly every major city in the United States experienced riots from late May to the end of August — even under the narrow definition that the study used to classify riots (as separate from events described as police violence against protesters).
The only exceptions within the top 50 cities by population were Fresno, California, and Mesa, Arizona.

Four confidential sources tell me they blame Joe Biden.




 

Category: Crime, Oregon

Early Morning Rule 5 Monday: Kaia Gerber

Posted on | September 7, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This week our appetizer is 19-year-old model Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford’s daughter, who seems to have inherited at least some of her mom’s good genes. What caught my attention was a Page Six article noting a risque photoshoot for Vogue Japan, which had some NSFW topless shots. Here she is in something more suitable for work.

In her mother’s footsteps

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1098, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five You Say You Want A Revolution Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Peter Grimes, Ginger Costa Jackson, Lulu, Carole King, Chianti Day, Porgy & Bess, Sad Kentucky Derby Day, The Tempest,  and No White After Labor Day.

A View From The Beach: Estella Warren, Fish Pic Friday – Mermaid Mo and Friends, Tattoo Thursday, A Wednesday Waste, Tuesday Tanlines, Another Muddy Monday, Primitive Deep Sea Fishing, Palm Sunday and Belushi Killer Dies at 73

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Alexandra Bastedo, and Red Pilled Jew brings us Women Wearing Masks.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

 

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Category: Rule 5

The Other Podcast: Home Stretch

Posted on | September 6, 2020 | Comments Off on The Other Podcast: Home Stretch

In case you missed it, Saturday night my partner John Hoge and I returned to the airwaves (podwaves?) with the latest weekly edition of The Other Podcast. With the presidential campaign now in its final 60-day home stretch, we find ourselves unfortunately compelled to take politics somewhat more seriously. This is difficult to do, when some polls show Joe Biden leading by 10 points (Quinnipiac) or even 11 points (Economist/YouGov). Are Americans really willing to put that doddering old fool in charge of the country? Like, we are going to surrender our nation to rioting mobs of Antifa goons and Black Lives Matter thugs?




 

Category: Talk Radio

The Labor Day Weekend Book Post

Posted on | September 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho

Having completed my life or death struggle with the new microwave (to say nothing of the FMJRA), I greet you with some books suitable for what’s left of the long weekend. First out of the gate is Tom Kratman’s latest (and perhaps last) book in the Carreraverse, Days of Burning, Days of Wrath, in which the man formerly known as Patrick Hennessey exacts his final revenge on the people ultimately responsible for the death of his wife and children. As with Jerry Pournelle’s Mamelukes, it would be fine if Kratman stopped here, with the boot of the UN Fleet finally removed from the necks of the Terra Novan people, and revolution sweeping the Tauran Union into the dustbin of history, but the possibility of his son Hamilcar leading a fleet to liberate Earth can’t be ruled out, and would be most welcome.

After having read SPOTREPS, I went back to read Escalation, which is the first of the Maelstrom Rising series by Peter Nealen. It’s a very different book. First of all, unlike the anthology, which is full of stories about the U.S. sliding into another civil war, with the active encouragement of Red China, Escalation is more of a “20 minutes into the future” technothriller, with not much techno but plenty of thriller. A Triarii special ops unit in the Balkans to retrieve a captured American soldier runs into unexpected (and very lethal) difficulties as the European Union sucker-punches the American regular forces in Slovenia on their way to deal with the recalcitrant Slovaks. The Triarii have to nursemaid a horribly undertrained American mech platoon and the survivors of the EU attack on one of the American forward operating bases as they attempt to evade the EU forces and retreat to Poland. Very good writing in the tradition of Tom Clancy, and there were several points in Escalation that reminded me of Clancy’s Clear & Present Danger. Recommended.

Larry Correia’s Destroyer of Worlds, the third novel in his Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series, is out; I have a copy but haven’t had a chance to crack it open yet. Ditto for Peter Nealen’s Holding Action, the sequel to Escalation, and Cracked, which bills itself as an anthology of Eggsellent Chicken Stories. Hope it doesn’t lay an egg.  I’ll be on the road next week, traveling to the Emergency Holographic Convention in Clarksville, and may pick up more reading material there.In the meantime, if you’re looking for something to read before then, there’s a 99 cent sale going on that may have something you like.

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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Equinoxe

Posted on | September 5, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Equinoxe

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Early Morning Rule 5 Monday: Linda Ronstadt
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

4Chan Does Better Journalism Than CNN, Identifies Portland Shooting Suspect
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Biden Voter Arrested in Colorado
357 Magnum
EBL

Another Biden Voter Arrested
357 Magnum
EBL

Podcasting the Long, Hot Summer
EBL

Kenosha: Anthony Huber Was a Felon, and Jacob Blake Was Dangerous
Bacon Time
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Willin’
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘I Also Hope to Keep a Steady High’
Female Investors Daily
COVID-19 Business Relief
357 Magnum
EBL

The Shark Has Been Infinitely Jumped: Russians Controlling Black Lives Matter?
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

‘Adult Entertainment’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.31.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.01.20
Proof Positive
EBL

‘For Months, Joe Biden Has Given Moral Aid and Comfort to the Vandals’
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Police Chief: ‘When You Point a Gun at Officers, Expect to Get Shot’
EBL

Protests in D.C. After Police Shooting
Dark Brightness
EBL
357 Magnum

100% Antifa’ Is Now 100% Dead
357 Magnum
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.03.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.03.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

Why the Panic in Bidenland?
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

Crazy People Are Dangerous
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.04.20
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending September 4:

  1.  EBL (22)
  2.  357 Magnum (12)
  3.  A View From The Beach (7)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Case of the Non-Compliant Motorist

Posted on | September 5, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

“Step out of the car.”

This is a simple sentence. You don’t need a Ph.D. in linguistics to understand the meaning of “step out of the car.” When this sentence is spoken by a man with a badge and a pistol, the driver of a motor vehicle has a legal obligation to comply with the officer’s command.

Notice the word “command.” The cop is not requesting that you exit your vehicle, he is commanding you to do so — it is an order, and the policeman has legal authority to compel your compliance. Your failure to comply with the officer’s lawful order thereby results in the officer gaining authority to use physical force against you.

Nowadays, police are trained in what are called “de-escalation tactics.” If you ever get pulled over for a traffic infraction, you can expect the police officer to be very polite, even cordial, as he asks for your license and informs you of your excessive speed or whatever. Cops are trained to talk nice like this, because it helps encourage cooperation. And if you watch a lot of videos on the Police Activity YouTube channel, like I do, you notice a pattern in the behavior of criminals — the kind of people who mistake courtesy for weakness. The law-abiding citizen feels embarrassed when he gets pulled over for a traffic infraction, and responds to the policeman in an apologetic manner: “I’m sorry, officer, I was in a bit of a hurry, I didn’t realize it was a 45 mph zone,” etc. Citizens respect the law, and therefore feel shame when they are caught breaking the law, even in the most ordinary and harmless ways. Criminals? Not so much.

One of the hallmarks of a criminal personality is the shamelessness with which they break the law. Criminals do not respect the law — they lack any proper sense of justice — and so, no matter what the law is, or how serious their breach of the law, criminals tend to be defiant in their behavior toward anyone attempting to enforce the law.

Consider the case of Deon Kay, who had a pistol in his hand when he was shot dead by police in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital has very strict gun-control laws; liberals support these laws, with which I strongly disagree. Yet liberals are now protesting the shooting of Deon Kay, despite his open defiance of the city’s gun-control laws.

Question: Exactly how are gun-control laws supposed to be enforced? What do liberals think should happen when gangsters flagranlty advertise their violation of gun-control laws, as did Deon Kay and his buddies, by posting online images of themselves with their weapons? This type of defiant behavior is, as I say, the hallmark of a criminal personality, and no one’s life is safe when such behavior is tolerated. Every simple traffic stop has the potential to become a life-or-death situation.

You see this demonstrated over and over in Police Activity videos. The criminal has been pulled over by the police, and the officer has some reason to suspect there might be drugs or weapons in the vehicle, or else there is an outstanding warrant for the driver’s arrest. The driver often seems to be compliant up until the moment the cop asks him to step out of the car, and that’s when the situation spins out of control. Either the suspect pulls a gun, initiating a shootout, or else he takes off in his car, seeking to escape arrest. Say hello to Braily Andres Batista-Concepcion.

 

Batista-Concepcion, 22, believes he is a victim of “excessive force” by police in Raleigh, N.C. Here is a description of his arrest:

On January 14, 2020 at approximately 9:30 a.m., Raleigh Police Department officers responded to a report of a hit and run in the 3500 block of Wake Forest Road. Before officers arrived on the scene the suspect vehicle fled the area and was involved in a second hit and run in a parking lot at St. Albans Drive and Wake Forest Road. While fleeing the scene of the second collision the vehicle struck a pole at 4320 Wingate Drive. A short time later, an officer spotted a vehicle matching the description from the three earlier hit and run incidents driving erratically on Navaho Drive. The officer initiated a traffic stop and observed that the driver appeared to be impaired while transporting three passengers. When Mr. Batista-Concepcion ignored repeated commands to place his hands on the wheel, the officer ordered him to get out of the vehicle. Mr. Batista-Concepcion failed to follow the officer’s commands and officers used force to remove him from the vehicle. Braily Andres Batista-Concepcion was subsequently charged with DWI, three counts of Hit and Run, two counts of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Simple Possession of Marijuana, and Resist, Delay and Obstruct.

OK, so this guy was completely wasted at 9:30 in the morning, smoking weed and driving around with three other people in the car — including at least one minor — and endangering public safety:

“We just got ran into,” one man tells a 911 dispatcher. “And the guy took off, twice. He ran into us twice and took off.”
In another call to 911, a woman tells dispatch, “They hit me. And then I stopped at the red light and they looked in the mirror and they were trying to back up and hit me again.”

Batista-Concepcion is a menace to society, a dangerous criminal, and why do you think the cops got irritated when he “ignored repeated commands to place his hands on the wheel”? Isn’t it just common sense that someone who deliberately rams his car into other vehicles might possess weapons? If the cop says “keep your hands where I can see them,” and you refuse to comply with that command — it is not a request, but a command — the cop has good reason to fear for his own safety. And keep in mind the cop didn’t just pull over Batista-Concepcion for a minor traffic offense, but three separate hit-and-run incidents.

OK, now it’s time to watch the video of Batista-Concepion’s arrest:

 

As I say, Batista-Concepcion claims to be a victim of “excessive force,” but the local District Attorney seems to think otherwise:

The Wake County District Attorney refused to ask the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate after a video of a violent arrest, which showed a Raleigh officer punching and kneeing a man, surfaced on social media.
After reviewing the video with the SBI, Raleigh Police Department officials said they met with Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman to review the body and dash camera video of the incident. Freeman decided not to request SBI involvement but left the door open for SBI assistance should it be deemed appropriate as the investigation unfolds.
“Traditionally the State Bureau of Investigation is asked to review use of force cases involving the use of lethal force. This case does not involve the use of lethal force,” Freeman said. “Additionally after reviewing the video of the incident, I believe interviews conducted by the Raleigh Police Department, which I have requested to be recorded, will provide full information for a decision to be made as to whether the officers’ conduct was criminal. If follow up investigation is needed, the State Bureau of Investigation may be asked at that time to conduct it.”

Here is the Raleigh Police Chief’s press conference:

 

“One of the passengers speaks about he wishes he had his 40, which is often the language referencing a gun. It is the goal, and it will always be the goal, of the Raleigh Police Department and all of its members to protect and serve the public in a safe and courteous and professional manner. . . . Policing requires the help and cooperation of all of us. . . . No officer wants to use force or become involved in a deadly force encounter.”

In a situation such as was caused by Batista-Concepcion’s non-compliant behavior, what do we expect police officers to do? What is the alternative when a driminal refuses to comply with lawful orders?

Without regard to what, if anything, becomes of the “excessive force” complaint in this case, I predict that Batista-Concepcion will soon be in prison, or else in the graveyard, as a result of his criminal personality. He is a bad person — a defiant and shameless law-breaker — and such people have a tendency to meet a violent death.

ADDENDUM: Permit me to add this quote from Edmund Burke:

“Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate a madman, who has escaped from the protecting restraint and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the enjoyment of light and liberty? Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer who has broke prison upon the recovery of his natural rights?”

This is the dilemma posed by such cases as Batista-Concepcion and Deon Kay. An obsessive devotion to “liberty in the abstract,” which characterizes the attitude of some of my libertarian friends, will always encounter problems in practical application, where madness and/or criminality renders a certain number of people incapable of responsible enjoyment of liberty. It is one thing, really, for a handful of decadent bohemian intellectuals to engage in drug abuse and sexual hedonism (e.g., the “Beat Generation” of the 1950s) and quite a different thing when such behavior becomes normative among the less privileged lower classes. The vicious habits of Allen Ginsberg as a Columbia University student could only cause so much trouble. However, when Ginsberg became celebrated as a prophetic voice, and emulation of his vices was hailed as “liberation,” the repercussions for society as a whole were much more serious. It is difficult to trace a direct line of causation from Ginsberg and the Beatniks to the death of Deon Kay, but this difficulty doesn’t mean that the causation is wholly imaginary.




 

Category: Crime, North Carolina
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