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The SCOTUS Circus

Posted on | September 21, 2020 | 1 Comment

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, uh, mourned by liberals who gathered in Washington, D.C., and spontaneously began singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” — an interesting choice:

Imagine there’s no heaven.
It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us.
Above us only sky.

An atheist hymn for an atheist’s death in an atheist world, I suppose.

By Sunday morning, the Satanic Left had recovered from their grief sufficiently for Nancy Pelosi to go on ABC and vow to do everything possible to prevent President Trump from replacing RBG.

Of course, nothing in the Constitution assigns the House of Representatives any role whatsoever in judicial nominations, but since when has Nancy Pelosi cared about the Constitution?

Doug Bandow predicts a no-holds barred fight over the nomination of RBG’s successor, and says Republicans have every advantage in the fight.

Stephen Kruiser says Democrats are about to discover that payback is a bitch: “Whatever grief the Democrats get in the next month or two was brought about by their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh two years ago. Their behavior towards Kavanaugh was abominable and unforgivable.”

Joe Biden . . . Well, what did you expect him to say?

David Catron looks at the likely nominee:

Amy Coney Barrett isn’t the only jurist on President Trump’s list of potential successors to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, but she is certainly the most feared by the left. This became clear in 2017, when Trump nominated her for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. During her Senate confirmation hearing, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee subjected her to a de facto inquisition, complete with outrageous inquiries concerning her Catholicism. Barrett’s response was eminently judicial: “It’s never appropriate for a judge to impose personal convictions, whether they derive from faith or anywhere else, on the law.”
Regrettably, Judge Barrett’s remarkable forbearance during that 2017 interrogation probably hasn’t rendered her immune from the kind of character assassination to which any jurist nominated by President Trump to replace Ginsburg will be subjected. . . .

Read the rest at The American Spectator.

I’ve already been in touch with Gloria Allred to tell her that, one drunken night long ago, Amy Coney Barrett raped me. Where’s my book deal?




 

Category: Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court

Jake Gardner’s Life Mattered

Posted on | September 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Jake Gardner’s Life Mattered

This is very sad news:

The surreal and sordid ordeal involving a white Omaha bar owner and a young Black Omaha man ended Sunday with a staggering development.
Jake Gardner — awaiting arrest after a grand jury in Omaha indicted him last week — shot himself outside a medical clinic in suburban Portland, Oregon, two law enforcement officials told The World-Herald. Police in Hillsboro, Oregon, found the 38-year-old former Marine dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound about 12:20 p.m.
Gardner’s attorneys, Stu Dornan and Tom Monaghan, said Gardner shot himself on the day he had said he would surrender in connection with manslaughter and three other felony charges stemming from the May 30 confrontation that led to the death of 22-year-old James Scurlock.

I discussed Gardner’s case here.




 

Category: Crime

Late Night Double Scoop Rule Five Sunday: Babes In Choppers

Posted on | September 21, 2020 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

When I saw the news articles about 19-year-old helicopter pilot Ashli Blain last week, I had no idea that she wasn’t the only gal flying helicopters against the California wildfires. No, there’s *two* of them, and much to my surprise they’re not Reservists or Guardsmen but civilians who learned from their daddies. The other one is Ann Hansen, also from Montana, and these ladies aren’t flying little whirlybirds, either: Hansen flies a CH-54 Sikorsky Skycrane, and Blain flies the CH-47 ShithookChinook. Pretty amazing ladies doing very necessary work.

Ann Hansen in the copilot’s seat

Ashli and her dad

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1105, Morning Mistress, Girls With Guns, Hot Pick of the Late Night (week 2), The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1112, Morning Mistress, & Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Communism In America Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon (last week), Rule Five Bullshitting Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon (this week).

EBL: Manon, Romeo et Juliette, Marianne Faithfull, Away, Susan Graham, Sarah Vaughn, Cendrillon, Les Pecheurs des Perles, Les Troyens,  Cobra Kai Season Two, Vanessa Rubio, Anna Netrebko, Nina Simone, Le Comte Ory, Ella Fitzgerald, La Fille du Regiment, Tommy Bartlett Show RIP, La Cenerentola, Kaitlan Collins, I Puritani, Julie London, Ruth Bader Ginsburg RIP, L’Elisir D’Amore, Fountainheads, Kimberly Klacik, Amy Coney Barrett, and Norma.

A View From The Beach: Clara Huet, Fish Pic Friday – May the Schwartz Be With You, RIP: Diana Rigg, Tattoo Thursday, Stairway, Oregon, My Oregon – Antifa Chick Bawls Upon Being Busted, Tuesday Tanlines, Happy Labor Day!,  Palm Sunday, Kim Cattrall, Russiagate: Graham Promises Day of Reckoning!, Fish Pic Friday – Red Drum Redux, Thursday Tanlines, Your Wednesday Wetness, Another Day Ending in “Y”, 
Motoring into Monday and Palm Sunday.

Proof Positive: Maureen O’Hara and Diana Rigg.

Red Pilled Jew: Women Dressed For Date NIght and Women Across The Table.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!

 

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Category: Rule 5

3 Killed by Louisville Gunman Wearing ‘Justice for Breonna Taylor’ T-Shirt

Posted on | September 20, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Cassandra Fairbanks reports at Gateway Pundit:

A black male walked into a Louisville bar owned by a retired police officer and shot three random people at point blank range on Friday night — while wearing a Justice for Breonna Taylor shirt.
The suspect was smiling from ear to ear as he was arrested for the shooting at Bungalow Joe’s Bar and Grill.

National media are ignoring the evidence of racial motive in this apparent terrorist attack. Bar owner Joe Bishop is quoted by WDRB-TV:

According to Bishop, it was a normal Friday night at Bungalow Joe’s when a man walked up to the restaurant and shot three customers, all men, who were sitting in the patio area at point-blank range.
“Nobody had ever seen this guy before,” Bishop said, referring to the shooter. “It was a totally random act.”
The men did not exchange words “at any point in time” before the shooting, according to Bishop.
“Social media is full of people saying this happened and that happened and wanted to get political with it; there was nothing political about what happened,” he added.

We shall see what further evidence of motive police are able to develop, but there are photos of the shooter in handcuffs wearing that T-shirt, which would seem to be sufficient evidence. Don’t expect CNN to send any camera crews to Louisville to cover this story.

UPDATE: The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Friday’s four homicides — the three at Bungalow Joe’s and a fourth unrelated shooting — bring the city’s murder total to a record high:

The four deaths overnight brought this year’s criminal homicide count to 121, according to a Courier Journal review of LMPD data. The Courier Journal reached out to the Louisville Metro Police Department to confirm that total, but an LMPD spokesperson didn’t respond
Louisville’s previous record for murders was reported in 2016, when LMPD investigated 117 homicides.
“This is a tragic milestone,” Mayor Greg Fischer said in a statement. “We have lost far too many people to this senseless violence, and I grieve with those directly impacted — the mothers, fathers, sons and daughters of those killed — and those indirectly impacted — the community as a whole, which also has suffered great loss.”

But the only death that matters to the national media is Breonna Taylor.




 

Category: Crime, Kentucky

FMJRA 2.0: Winged Hussars

Posted on | September 19, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Winged Hussars

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Liberals Outraged by Million-Dollar Bail for Lancaster #BlackLivesMatter Rioters
Dark Brightness
357 Magnum
First Street Journal
EBL
Proof Positive

Trump Is Right: No, It’s Not Crazy to Suspect Biden Is Being Medicated
Bacon Time
EBL
Proof Positive

Biden Voter Update
357 Magnum
EBL

Armed and Dangerous
357 Magnum
EBL

The Death of ‘Quono’
EBL

Cop Shoots Knife-Wielding Maniac, Lancaster Riots After BLM Lies
Dark Brightness
EBL

Biden Voter Enacts Democrat Agenda
The Pirate’s Cove
357 Magnum
EBL

Sorority Sister Turned BLM Radical? Kappa Delta Arrested in Lancaster Riot
Bacon Time
Globalist News
PBF News
EBL

In The Mailbox 09.15.20 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.15.20 (Evening Edition)
EBL
Proof Positive

Mandatory ‘Struggle Sessions’ in Arizona
Dark Brightness
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.16.20
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Trump Getting 50% of the Catholic Vote
Dark Brightness
EBL

No Lower Form of Human Scum Exists: @TheRickWilson Engaged in Blackmail?
EBL

When Do Black Lives Matter, and Why?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.17.20
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Boston Serial Rapist Faces Life in Prison; His Sister Endorsed Kamala Harris
EBL

‘Sundown Joe’ Babbles Incoherently About Fracking in CNN Pennsylvania Town Hall
EBL

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead at 87
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.18.20
A View From The Beach
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending September 18:

  1.  EBL (20)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum & Proof Positive (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Other Podcast: RBG Edition

Posted on | September 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

My podcast partner John Hoge and I will, uh, mourn the passing of the late Supreme Court justice tonight at 7 p.m. ET on the latest weekly edition of The Other Podcast.

If you miss the live show, the Podbean archive is here.

 




 

Category: Talk Radio

Andrew Cuomo’s Lynching Law

Posted on | September 19, 2020 | 2 Comments

Before he became infamous for killing Grandma, the Democratic governor of New York signed into law an “affirmative consent” policy (a/k/a “Yes Means Yes”) that applies only to university campuses. Anyone familiar with human nature could predict that this law would produce disastrous consequences, because (a) college girls get drunk, (b) drunk girls do embarrassing things, and (b) the next morning they regret the stuff they did when they were drunk. This scenario accounts for perhaps 90% of all campus “sexual assault” accusations and, even if we can’t hold guys blameless in such incidents, the difficulty is determining guilt in a “he-said/she-said” situation where both participants are usually drunker than the proverbial skunk. And then there’s this:

University suspended black student
for a year because drunk white girl
kissed him: lawsuit

Do we really need to discuss the details of this case at New York’s Long Island University or should we just blame Gov. Cuomo?

LIU’s bias is institutionalized in its Sexual Violence and Harassment Policy’s Students’ Bill of Rights, which “shockingly” limits protections to only “reporting individuals” — those who allege violations, according to the suit.
This is despite the policy’s explicit promise of several rights for “all” students, including the presumption of innocence for accused students, “right to make an impact statement” on the cusp of sanctions and “equal opportunity” to present witnesses and evidence. John [Doe, the lawsuit plaintiff] claims he was afforded none of these.
The policy does, however, reflect New York’s affirmative consent law: “both evince a surface-level refusal to recognize uniform rights for the accuser and the accused.” Signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the statute has an “inherent bias” because it requires colleges to predetermine that any accuser “is at fault … or should have acted in a different manner to avoid” violations that have not been proven, John says.

As I understand the complaint in the lawsuit, the drunk white girl, “Jane Roe,” wanted John Doe, a member of the LIU football team, to fulfill her Mandingo fantasies, and he rejected her advances. No sexual activity between them actually took place, according to the lawsuit. However, Jane’s drunken would-be snowbunny act was witnessed by several of their fellow students and Jane, who had a boyfriend, was worried that reports of her behavior would jeopardize her “committed relationship.” So she invented the “sexual assault” accusation to make herself look like a victim, when in fact she was the aggressor. Or at least this is what the lawsuit says happened, and who am I to say otherwise?

This is the problem with the “affirmative consent” standard, as a practical matter involving college girls, most of them teenagers, who get themselves into bad situations and then claim victimhood. The Democrats who enacted this foolish New York law are now probably shocked to discover the potential for racial discrimination in such cases. Of course, this was entirely predictable, if you knew anything at all about human nature, and the kind of girls who attend Long Island University.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)




 

Category: Education, New York

Keep Calm and Vote Trump

Posted on | September 19, 2020 | 1 Comment

Everybody’s gearing up to DefCon 1 for the Senate fight over filling the Supreme Court seat formerly held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Remain calm. All is well.

You need the stoic temperament of Marcus Aurelius in such a crisis.

Keep telling yourself: “I don’t care. It doesn’t matter.”

This is your mantra. Strive to achieve complete indifference.

Don’t watch cable TV news. It will only disturb your tranquility.

Have you got a hobby? Gardening? Bird watching? Concentrate your attention on your hobby. Ignore the daily drumbeat of “news,” which is manufactured by people who profit from needless excitement.

Vote for Trump. If ever you needed an incentive to vote early, this is it. Just go cast your vote for Trump, which is really all you can do, and then be at peace with the world. Shalom.




 

 

Category: Supreme Court
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