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Sex Offender Joseph Rosenbaum Taunted Armed Civilians: ‘Shoot Me, N–r!’

Posted on | August 28, 2020 | 6 Comments

 

When 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse opened fire during Tuesday night’s riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the first person he shot was Joseph Rosenbaum. The head shot was fatal, and it was quickly learned that Rosenbaum, 36, was a convicted sex offender who earlier in the night had been taunting the armed civilians guarding property against the rioters.

“Shoot me, n–r!” Rosenbaum repeatedly shouted, in a bizarre scene captured on video by Townhall reporter Julio Rosas.

Think about what kind of white man would be shouting the n-word during a protest allegedly in support of Black Lives Matter. And then you discover that Rosenbaum served more than 10 years in an Arizona prison after being convicted in 2002 of “sexual conduct with a minor.”

 

By my calculations, Rosenbaum would have been 19 at the time of his sentencing, and his offense must have been quite severe in order for a judge to impose a 10-year sentence and lifetime registry as a sex offender. According to Arizona records, Rosenbaum was repeatedly cited for disciplinary infractions while he was incarcerated; he was twice returned to prison after violating terms of release, and did not finally leave prison until 2017. He was a very bad man, in other words, and it is difficult to find any reason to mourn his death. So then you read this:

According to social media posts from friends and family, Rosenbaum is a Texas native. He moved to Kenosha within the last year.
Rosenbaum was shot in the head, a friend said.
He leaves behind a fiancée and a young daughter.
“May you forever be with the angels and rest easy bro. I love you!” his sister wrote on Facebook.

A “Texas native”? That may be true, but Rosenbaum was in Tucson, Arizona (where it appears his father is an attorney) when he was convicted and sentenced to prison as a sex offender in 2002. Probably his fiancée and friends in Wisconsin had no idea about the Arizona criminal record of the man they knew as “JoJo,” and Rosenbaum may have told them he was from Texas in order to conceal his criminal past.

It was, of course, Andy Ngo who first reported Rosenbaum’s sex offender status, and Ngo further reported that both of the other two rioters shot by Kyle Rittenhouse also had criminal records. Anthony Huber, 26, who attacked Rittenhouse with a skateboard and was fatally shot, “has a criminal history that includes charges of battery & repeat domestic abuse,” Ngo reported. Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, who was seen on video pointing a pistol at Rittenhouse before being wounded in the arm, is “a member of the People’s Revolution Movement,” Ngo reported, and “has a criminal record that includes being intoxicated & armed w/a gun.”

Now, let’s ask what should be an obvious question: What are the odds that a guy opens fire at a mass gathering and all three of the people he shoots turn out to have criminal records? Doesn’t this tell you something about who is engaging in these “mostly peaceful” protests?




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

In The Mailbox: 08.27.20

Posted on | August 28, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hypocrisy From Democrats On Protests
EBL: Day Three Of The GOP Convention
Twitchy: The Nation Finally Gets To Know David Dorn, Shot & Killed By Looters In St. Louis Rioting
Louder With Crowder: Nancy Pelosi Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About The Presidential Debates
Vox Popoli: Antifa Are Hired Convicts, also, Devil Mouse Seeks Corporate Chemo

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Just Call Them Marxists
American Conservative: Conservatives Must Return To Metaphysics
American Greatness: Sandmann Lawyer L. Lin Wood Offers To Represent Kyle Rittenhouse Pro Bono, also, Kamala Harris (Not Joe Biden) Will Give Reply To Trump’s Acceptance Speech
American Thinker: Waking The Sleeping Giant, also, The Conservative Hero Who Can Pick Up A Senate Seat In NH
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Vaccine News
Babalu Blog: Chinese Dissident & Survivor Of Communism Rejects Democrat Appeasement Policy, Endorses Trump
BattleSwarm: Kenosha Burning
Cafe Hayek: Unmasking The Full Effects Of Mask Mandates
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday, also, Space Force – There Is No “Colonel” Of A Ship
Da Tech Guy: Porn Vs. Reality – A Public Service Message, also, Six Thoughts On Kenosha Now That The Shooting Back Has Begun
Don Surber: Fifth Columnists Officially Leave Republican Party, also, Corona-chan Creates An NPC World
First Street Journal: You Can’t Solve The Problem If You’re Not Willing To Identify It
The Geller Report: Nervous Nancy Pelosi – “I Don’t Think There Ought To Be Any Presidential Debates”, also, Videos Show Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Acted In Self Defense
Hogewash: The Democrats Vs. Reality, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Robin’s Wish Reveals The Roots Of An Iconic Clown’s Tears, also, You Better Shut The Door On The Owners
JustOneMinute: Joe The Plumber Has Arrived!
The Lid: Justice Department Requesting Data On COVID Nursing Home Deaths From Cuomo, Three Other Governors
Legal Insurrection: CNN Describes Kenosha Riots As “Fiery But Peaceful”, also, Minneapolis – Riot First, Ask Questions Later
The PanAm Post: Evo Morales Chose His “Harem” Of Minors Through His Party
Power Line: The NYT Hits The Panic Button, also, The Path Is Open To A GOP Sweep
Shark Tank: Levine Cava’s Police Reform Plan Will Handcuff Miami-Dade Officers
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To Governor Walz – Therapy
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – U.S. Excess Deaths Related To COVID-19 Through August 27
The Political Hat: The Bayoneting Of America
This Ain’t Hell: Finally! Captain Kirk Weighs In On Space Force Rank Conversation, also, You’re A Nazi If You Don’t Want To Be A Slave
Victory Girls: Kyle Rittenhouse, American Hero
Volokh Conspiracy: Rights & Wrongs Of Sports Boycotts
Weasel Zippers: VA State Senate Reduces Assault On Police, EMS, Firefighters & Judges To Misdemeanor, also, NBA Went Woke, Got Broke, Cancels One-Day Strike
The Federalist: Police Recover Weapon From Jacob Blake’s Car, also, Homeland Security Boss Chad Wolf Says Antifa “Definitely” Meets Domestic Terrorist Definition
Mark Steyn: Nationalizing The Debate

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Tonopah And/Or Bust

Posted on | August 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

— by Wombat-socho


I was originally going to just remark that there might not be any posting from Yr. Ob’t Servant this weekend and let it go at that, but you loyal readers and members of the Commentariat deserve more, so here it is.

After months of banging the paperwork together (it’s mostly electronic, but still) I have been approved to move into a subsidized apartment up in Tonopah, which is almost exactly halfway between Reno and Las Vegas on US-95. It’s a small rural town (pop. ~2600) so that’ll be a new experience for me as I’ve only lived in cities or their suburbs before this. I intend to enjoy the experience, as well as the cooler weather, and may wind up buying a house there with my unused VA loan. Or I might move back to Las Vegas. We’ll see how things go. Anyhow, despite the fact that I originally applied for the apartment in April, I didn’t get approved until a couple of weeks ago, which means I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to arrange for internet service, setting up electric billing, etc. so that when I move up there tomorrow everything will be good to go. I already know it won’t be, because I had to reschedule the installation of my Frontier internet to Monday since the movers aren’t going to show up at my storage locker until 1 PM, which is when the Frontier guy was originally going to show up.

In other Nevada news, a lot of people here are PO’d at Governor Sisolak, who has been dutifully following the Democrat party line on dealing with Corona-chan. The net result is that a lot of the people laid off because the governor closed the casinos, bars, restaurants, etc. had to wait literally months to get unemployment because the state wasn’t ready to deal with a quarter-million unemployed people at once. There are still people out there waiting to hear back on applications they filed in April, and others in bad shape now that the additional $600 Federal assistance has ended. Despite the lockdown not having improved matters, and quite possibly made them worse, Sisolak is sticking to his guns and refusing to open up the most populous counties in the state. Whether people remember this next year when the Assembly and Senate are up for election remains to be seen.

As usual, we are enjoying triple digit temperatures here, which is probably one of the factors keeping rioters and other scum off the streets. The other factor is that the Metro police here in Clark County have been present in overwhelming force during the handful of protests, so the violence has been minimal and I expect it’ll stay that way, since our Democrats are somewhat saner than those in New York and understand quite well that if they allow Antifa and #BLM to burn down the Strip or Fremont Street, that’s going to be the end of the city, because Las Vegas is still heavily reliant on tourism and the economy here is bad enough already with the lockdown just beginning to loosen up to the point where most of the major Strip casinos are open. All of the major conferences and national meetings that usually fill the Convention Center, the Sands Expo Center, and every hotel room in town have been cancelled, and there’s talk that even the National Finals Rodeo is going to cancel. Millions, maybe billions of dollars not coming to Las Vegas. It’s not pretty.

And that’s the news from Las Vegas.


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Category: Nevada

What’s Better Than CNN?

Posted on | August 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Almost anything, actually. It is better to be uninformed than to be misinformed, and CNN is so hopelessly wrong about everything that the more you watch it, the less you know about current events, and most of what CNN viewers think they “know” is generally wrong. Today, I’ve had my office TV tuned to CNN all day (I watch, so you don’t have to) and I find myself stunned by how relentlessly narrow their coverage is. That is to say, the network executives have decided on which four or five stories CNN will cover, and what this coverage will include, and the same simple themes are reiterated hour after hour after hour. Once you’ve watched a couple of hours of this, anyone with an IQ above room temperature must be weary of the repetition of these themes, which omit any fact that might contradict the pro-Democrat/anti-Trump message.

CNN’s coverage of “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests” is misleading because the network refuses to ask the most obvious questions: How does a child’s birthday party turn into a domestic violence incident?

There were still scant details about exactly what happened Sunday in the minutes before Blake was shot.
Police have said only that they were responding to a domestic incident. Neighbors said that there had been an altercation between two women at a birthday party for one of Blake’s sons and that Blake had been trying to break it up when officers arrived. [Attorney Ben] Crump said Blake was “simply trying to do the right thing by intervening in a domestic incident.”

See, that right there is the key to the whole thing, and yet CNN, with its legion of highly skilled journalists, seems utterly uninterested in discovering what this “altercation” was about. How many readers have ever heard of a child’s birthday party turning into a 911 call? Whose fault was that and — oh, just by the way — what was Jacob Blake planning to do when he decided he needed to grab a knife from his vehicle? But not only do CNN viewers not get answers to these highly relevant questions, the questions themselves are never mentioned, because asking questions might distract from the important message: VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN!

That’s the only thing any CNN viewer is supposed to care about, and so the network’s coverage of Kenosha, like their coverage of just about everything else, turns into an exercise in blaming Trump. Even if you were interested in that message, the most hard-core Democratic voter must get weary of having the same message — BLAME TRUMP! — inserted into every story and, as I say, the way CNN’s programming works, there are only four or five stories they really cover at all on a typical day, so that it becomes a tormenting drumbeat of repetition.

Whatever else might cause anyone to watch CNN, they certainly can’t be tuning in for the excitement. If it’s excitement you want, my suggestion is that you try watching real-crime video on YouTube:

The police officer keyed his microphone and spoke the two most important words of his career: “Shots fired.” He had just fatally shot a man, in the kind of split-second life-or-death decision that every law enforcement officer trains for, but none of them ever wants to experience. He repeated the communication several times — “Shots fired!” — and then added, “Send all units.”
When fellow officers arrived, Officer Bryan Pray was emotionally distraught by what had happened. “I can’t even talk right now, man. I didn’t want that to happen to him, man.” The policeman in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, had just killed Kevan Ruffin, after a nightmarish encounter in the early-morning hours of July 2.
Officer Pray had been dispatched by a 911 call shortly before 6 a.m. reporting a disturbance involving a knife-wielding man. Arriving at the scene of the incident, the officer found a woman crying hysterically. She said she had been attacked by a black man with two knives or swords, who looked at her with “pure hatred” on his face and called her “the devil in the flesh.” She had escaped without serious injury, and her attacker had gone eastbound up an alley toward South 15th Street. . . .

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




 

Category: CNN, Crime

In The Mailbox: 08.26.20

Posted on | August 27, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1090
357 Magnum: The Power Grid Is Failing In California
EBL: Day Two Of The GOP Convention
Twitchy: Lincoln Project Jerk Makes A Funny About Kayleigh McEnany’s Mastectomy & Jesus
Louder With Crowder: Nick Sandmann Delivers Scathing Rebuke To Media & Cancel Culture At RNC
Vox Popoli: Four More Years, also, Who Needs The Police?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: This Halfway Life
American Conservative: Daniel Cameron, Breakout Star Of The RNC
American Greatness: Jacob Blake’s Mother Expresses Disgust With Kenosha Rioters, also, Seventeen Year Old Charged With Murder After Shooting Rioters In Kenosha
American Thinker: The Original Deep State, also, Parkland Dad Says Biden Jeopardizes Kids’ Lives
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Fidel Castro Claimed He Wasn’t A Communist Too
BattleSwarm: RNC – Video, Recaps, & Recaps Of Recaps
Cafe Hayek: And There’s The Rub
CDR Salamander: Deterring War, Conducting War, Ending War – What Seapower Does
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Week One Done, also, Da Truth & Da Times
Don Surber: Melania Was Magnificent, also, The Election Is A Choice Between Capitalism & Communism
The Geller Report: Bloodbath In Kenosha, also, Seattle Rioters Try To Burn Police Alive
Hogewash: Looking At Neptune, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: HBO Max Preps West Wing Reunion For Farcical “Nonpartisan” Voter Drive, also, The Thrilling Animated Classic Hiding In Plain Sight On Disney+
The Lid: Watch The Most Truthful Ad About Democrats You’ll Ever See
Legal Insurrection: Don Lemon – “The Rioting Has Got To Stop, It’s Showing Up In The Polls”, also, Wisconsin Pizzeria Owner After #BLM Smashes His Windows – “Are They Trying To Get Trump Reelected?”
The PanAm Post: Guaido’s Resignation Is The First Step To End Maduro’s Regime
Power Line: DOJ Seeks Information On Coronavirus Orders That May Have Led To Deaths, also, More Riots & Looting In Minneapolis
Shark Tank: Democrats Call Jewish-American Laura Loomer Racist With Neo-Nazi Ties
Shot In The Dark: Just For Future Reference
The Political Hat: The Decline & Fall Of British Humour, also, The Challenge Of Marxism
This Ain’t Hell: New Graphic Novel Celebrates The Only Woman To Win The Medal Of Honor, also, Anti-Gun Projection Again
Victory Girls: HCQ & Lysenkoism 2.0
Volokh Conspiracy: Kamala Harris On The Second Amendment, also, The ACLU Defends The NRA
Weasel Zippers: MN Democrat Woman – RNC Gives Me Hope, also, Bette Midler’s Racist Mockery Of Melania Trump
The Federalist: NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks Boycott Playoff Game Over Jacob Blake Shooting, also, #BLM Doesn’t Just Want You To Raise Your Fist, They Want You To Submit
Mark Steyn: We Don’t Need Conservative Art, We Need Good Art, also, The Great Walkbackening

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Kenosha Riots Turn Deadly

Posted on | August 26, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

For the third consecutive night, Democratic voters ran wild in Kenosha, Wisconsin, engaging in vandalism, arson and assault. Two people were shot to death and a third seriously wounded in the mayhem, organized by #BlackLivesMatter as part of the Joe Biden presidential campaign.

Two people were killed and another was wounded as shots were fired late Tuesday in Kenosha during the third night of unrest in Wisconsin following the police shooting of black man Jacob Blake.
The shootings were reported at about 11.45pm after police drove away protesters from in front of a courthouse that has been the site of the main clashes between protesters and authorities.
Footage showed gunshots ringing out amid a scuffle in the street while bystanders screamed and fled in terror, with one person shot in the arm and another one hit in the chest.
Panic broke out as another man lay in agony ‘losing a lot of blood’ after he was shot in the head, with onlookers desperately trying to stem the wound and yelling that ‘we’ve got to keep him alive’.
Another man was helped to his feet by cops after bleeding heavily from a wound to his arm as law enforcement vehicles approached.
One of the victims was shot outside an auto garage, where the gunman was apparently caught on video saying ‘I’ve just killed somebody’ before he was pursued down the street carrying his rifle.
As the crowd gave chase, one pursuer took a flying kick at the gunman and another tried to grab his weapon before he started firing to disperse the crowd, hitting another two people. . . .

This is not “peaceful protest.” It has nothing to do with Jacob Blake.

This is the Democratic Party platform. This is Joe Biden’s agenda: Defund the police, destroy private property, turn loose violent mobs of criminal anarchists and racial gangs to terrorize citizens — it’s a live demonstration of the “progressive” ideology in action, and if you want this destructive chaos as the future of America, vote for Joe Biden.

UPDATE: Jack Murphy slowed down video of Tuesday night’s shooting incident. A guy with a rifle was being pursued by the mob. He fell down, and was attacked by a man wielding a skaeboard as a weapon (which is standard Antifa tactics). He shot the guy with the skateboard, and then was approached by a guy with a pistol, and shot him.

This is case-closed self-defense. Democrats allow mob violence to rule the streets. Americans have the right to defend themselves.




 

Category: Crime, Joe Biden, Wisconsin

In The Mailbox: 08.25.20

Posted on | August 26, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.25.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Welcome To Tomorrowland
EBL: Day One Of The GOP Convention
Twitchy: PBS’ Yamiche Alcindor Triggered By Naturalization Ceremony At White House
Louder With Crowder: #BLM Assaults Kenosha Business Owner After Setting His Store On Fire
Monster Hunter Nation: Destroyer Of Worlds Audiobook Delayed
Vox Popoli: Big Bear Wins A Big One, also, Where Do All These Betrayers Come From?
Gab News: Will Big Tech Ban Trump?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Red China Leaves Russian Meddling In The Dust
American Greatness: Stars Attending VMAs Not Subject To NY Quarantine Mandate, also, Chicago Lawmakers Urge Emergency Declaration, National Guard Callup
American Thinker: The Story Behind Steve Bannon’s Arrest, also, What Will Replace The Police? Ten Historical Examples
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Convention Postmortem News
Babalu Blog: Maximo Alvarez Channels H.L. Mencken At The RNC
BattleSwarm: Is NYC Dead Forever? also, Red China Is Literally Murdering Babies
Cafe Hayek: Again Asking – If They’re So Smart…
CDR Salamander: The Fight For Baghdad
Da Tech Guy: Kneecapping AI To Maintain A Bloated Military Bureaucracy, also, Five One-Liners Under Other Bloggers’ Fedoras
Don Surber: 18 Holes Of Trumpenfreude, also, The Best Thing Trump Has Done
First Street Journal: Do Black Lives Really Matter?
The Geller Report: Unemployment Higher In Democrat-Controlled States, also, CNN Cuts Away From President’s RNC Speech – “Wrong, Misleading, & Outright Lies”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, The Important Question For The 2020 Elections
Hollywood In Toto: Showtime’s Comey Rule Teases Fake News Theatrics, also, Yes, God, Yes Could Make Stranger Things Actress A Star
The Lid: White Supremacist Richard Spencer Endorses Biden, also, Kenosha Burns, Talcum X Incites More Violence On Twitter, And Jack Does Nothing
Legal Insurrection: DC #BLM Mob Harasses White Diners, also, “There Is Nowhere Else To Go”
Michelle Malkin: #BLM’s Perpetual Fake Outrage Cycle
The PanAm Post: Former Colombian President Uribe Illegally Wiretapped
Power Line: #BLM Thugs Attack Journalist, also, Loose Ends
Shark Tank: Mooney Needs Miami-Dade To Carry Florida’s 120th District, But Can He Carry It?
Shot In The Dark: The Miracle Of The Vistula
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – The Money Goes Away
The Political Hat: U.S. To Global Internationalists – Go Pound Sand (Or Worse)
This Ain’t Hell: Family Seeks Damages After Vet’s Suicide In VA Mental Health Unit, also, Should AG Barr Invoke The RICO Act?
Victory Girls: “Uncle Tom” Trends After Black Voices Are Heard At The DNC
Volokh Conspiracy: Justifying A Moral Duty To Vote Is A Lot Harder Than You Think
Weasel Zippers: Armed Militia Save Another Kenosha Business From Rioters, also, CSPAN Livestream – RNC Drawing 6x The Viewers As DNC
The Federalist: I Was Wrong About Trump – He Didn’t Destroy The GOP, He Saved It, also, Biden & Harris Own The Destruction In Kenosha
Mark Steyn: After The Ball, also, Parking Tickets As Policy

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Why Fast Food Isn’t Fast Anymore (and Other Serious Social Problems)

Posted on | August 25, 2020 | 6 Comments

 

She was an old lady — well along into her 70s, I’m sure — and I didn’t want to be mad at her, but she was causing a problem. Worse than that, however, is that she evidently did not realize how much of a problem she was causing, not only for me, but for the employees at McDonald’s and everyone in line behind me at the drive-thru.

My order was simple: Two McDoubles, small fries, large sweet tea.

Because I used to work in fast food, I understand how important it is for customers to keep it simple, to cooperate with the system, in order to maximize the speed of the service. By the time you reach the drive-thru speaker — or you arrive at the front counter, should you be ordering from inside the restaurant — you should have in mind exactly what you want to order. You’re not there to have a conversation. Don’t make special requests. Don’t mumble or ask questions about the menu — it’s right there in front of you, and if you can’t read the menu, perhaps you should consider going back to fifth grade. Speak slowly and clearly when placing your order. By the way, did I mention, no special requests?

Because I can’t possibly emphasize that enough. As a former fast-food worker, there is nothing that enrages me quite so much as seeing someone trying to get something from a fast-food restaurant that is not listed on the menu. Lady, this is not a-la-carte dining, it’s McDonald’s. Just order a Number 3 combo and get out of my way.

Keep it simple, that’s the secret of fast food, see? They have a limited number of items on the menu. If you don’t like what’s on the menu — served exactly the way they serve it — go somewhere else. Don’t ask McDonald’s to make you a Filet-o-Fish sandwich without tartar sauce or a cheeseburger with no onions. Just order what they’ve got, or just stay home for all I care, but stop slowing down the service with your idiot requests, because the rest of us in line behind you are hungry.

The reason I’m in the drive-thru at McDonald’s is because I want the standardized product that McDonald’s serves, and I want it fast. Therefore, I cooperate with the system. I follow the rules, rather than demanding special treatment by trying to turn a customer-service interaction into a Socratic dialogue about whether the items on the menu can be made differently, to suit my personal tastes and preferences.

Something else about the keep it simple approach to fast-food orders — if you make your order unnecessarily complicated, this increase the likelihood of error. So there I was . . .

What did the old lady order? I don’t know, but apparently they got her order wrong, because as I am approaching the first window — the one where you pay for your order — I see the car in front of me shift into reverse, and begin backing up. What the actual hell is this? Before I could say anything, she had backed up until she hit my bumper. Then she got out of her car and started knocking on the drive-thru window.

Leaning out my car window, I said, “Ma’am, what are you doing? You can’t back up in the drive-thru. You just hit my car.”

This didn’t seem to register. Of course, I drive an old junker, and it’s not as if I was going to call the cops, but still . . .

“Well you weren’t going anywhere,” she said.

What? Excuse me? Before I could figure out what she meant by this, the drive-thru window opened, and the lady began to talk to the employee about what was wrong with the order listed on the receipt.

BUT YOU CAN’T BACK UP IN THE DRIVE THROUGH!

Keep in mind, this was at the first window. She hadn’t even gotten her food yet, but somehow had time to look at the receipt and decide she needed to have an argument about her order with the cashier.

That’s not how this works. That’s not what you do if the get your order wrong in the drive-thru. Doesn’t everybody understand this? There is a procedure — a system — to follow in case of an error. You park your car and go inside, and they’ll straighten it out. The one thing you do not do, in the drive-thru, is to cause a scene that stops the flow.

AND YOU CAN’T BACK UP IN THE DRIVE THROUGH!

This is just common sense, but in 2020, common sense is increasingly rare. Everywhere you look, there are people behaving in ways that are not merely inconsiderate of others, but downright dangerous.

For example, when a police officer asks to see your license, this is not an invitation to a discussion about your “rights.” If you are operating a motor vehicle, the law requires that you have a valid license, and while the cop may say “please” when he asks to see your license, it’s not a request, it’s a command. And never mind why he pulled you over, your failure to comply with his request is a violation of law.

Earlier this month, a four-second video clip went viral on social media, showing a black woman being pulled from a car. This clip circulated widely, with some people making false claims about what happened. So the police department released the entire video of the scene:

Aurora police on Sunday released dash cam video of an officer pulling a woman from a vehicle during a traffic stop in an attempt to correct “a false narrative” after a 4-second clip of it was shared on social media.
The video shows an officer pulling over a 20-year-old woman Thursday for allegedly driving a vehicle with plates that were not registered to the vehicle, police said.
The video shows the officer asking the woman several times to step out the vehicle, and then pulling her by her arm and pressing her against the side of the vehicle.
She was charged with misdemeanor count of obstructing a peace officer and citations regarding the license plate registration, police said.
Police explained that they released the video in an effort to explain the officer’s actions.
“In an effort to provide complete transparency to the community and tell the entire story, the Aurora Police Department is releasing the dash camera video of what happened and a lengthy narrative of the incident,” police said in a statement.
Police said that social media posts falsely claimed the woman did not get out of the vehicle because she could not walk and requires the use of braces, a wheelchair, and a walker. Police said the woman walks on her own and never told officers of any pre-existing conditions or injuries.

Watch the whole thing:

 

This woman was in the wrong the whole time. She knew damned well she was in the wrong, but when the cops busted her — driving an Acura SUV with tags registered to a Saturn sedan — she decided that she was not going to cooperate with the system, which led to her arrest.

Racism had nothing to do with this. Police now have equipment that automatically scans license plates and so the cops knew as soon as they saw this vehicle that the license plate was on the wrong car. Nine times out of 10, that means the car is stolen, which it wasn’t in this case, but the vehicle this woman was driving was not insured, so she apparently decided to switch plates with her mother’s car, thinking that would solve the problem, but instead it created another problem.

This is why we have rules, and laws, and customs. Like basic courtesy. The policeman was actually polite to this criminal, up until she decided to become non-compliant. Police are now trained to be polite this way, because you get better results that way. So he is saying “please,” and calling her “ma’am,” and otherwise treating her with a level of respect that she didn’t really deserve. She had committed a crime, and knew damned well she was guilty, but instead of cooperating with the officer, she decides she needs to be disrespectful, and as a result, finds herself forcibly dragged from the vehicle. Meanwhile . . .

I’m in the drive-thru line at McDonald’s and cannot believe what this old lady in front of me is doing. Cars are lined up behind us, because she’s got some kind of petty grievance over them getting her order wrong. What disturbed me most about this incident — and you can ask my brother how angry it made me — was that this woman seemed so completely oblivious to the fact that she was the problem. She never even acknowledged that she had bumped my car, let alone that she was delaying everybody behind her by her ridiculous behavior.

AND YOU CAN’T BACK UP IN THE DRIVE THROUGH!

Why do I even have to explain this? But we live in an age of declining standards, and this old lady in the drive-thru was a symbol of everything that has gone wrong in America for the past half-century.

Everybody wants to blame somebody else for their problems. We have become entirely too tolerant of such attitudes. This lady in the drive-thru was focused on the McDonald’s employee having gotten her order wrong, and therefore as a victim of the employee’s wrongdoing, she was entitled to cause a scene and break the rules, without regard for the inconvenience she thereby caused for everybody in line behind her.

Fast food isn’t fast anymore, and the convenience store isn’t convenient, because there are so many customers like this who don’t understand the most basic rules of behavior. Like, suppose you’re a family of four out on the road, on your way to grandma’s house or whatever. You stop into the convenience store, and the kids want to get Cokes or whatever. Why does your entire family have to be in line at the cash register? Like, whoever is going to make the purchase — mom or dad — can get everyone’s stuff and go to the register. There is no need to have everybody stand in the cash register line and, now that I’m on a rant, why is everybody in your family so fat? It’s always fat people blocking up the aisle at the grocery store, or getting in the express line with more than 15 items in their cart.

The lady causing a scene at McDonald’s? Fat, of course.

Is there a connection here? Some cause-and-effect relationship? I’ll leave that to the sociologists to figure out. My point is that people who cause problems seldom never seem to realize that they are the cause of the problem. They are blind to their own responsibility, instead claiming victimhood while blaming others for the problem.

Believe it or not, there have been times in my own life when I have caused problems for others. And I felt ashamed of myself. When someone else is inconvenienced because of my carelessness, it causes me to experience feelings of remorse. I am a normal human being. I have a conscience, and therefore am capable of feeling shame. But this was not the case with the lady at the McDonald’s drive-thru. She evidently had no shame at all about the inconvenience she was inflicting on everyone else. No, her order was wrong, and therefore she was entitled to break the rules, and it didn’t matter who else had to suffer on her behalf. Meanwhile . . .

A “domestic dispute” erupted Sunday afternoon in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and before the day was over, the city was in flames:

Wisconsin’s governor summoned the National Guard for fear of another round of violent protests Monday after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said 125 members of the National Guard would be in Kenosha by night with responsibility for “guarding infrastructure and making sure our firefighters and others involved are protected.” County authorities also announced an 8 p.m. curfew.
The move came after protesters set cars on fire, smashed windows and clashed with officers in riot gear Sunday night over the wounding of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who was hospitalized in serious condition. In a widely seen cellphone video made by an onlooker, he was shot, apparently in the back, as he leaned into his SUV while his three children sat in the vehicle.

Everybody with an Internet connection has seen that video, but what do we know about the cause of the “domestic dispute”? The situation that led to the police shooting did not begin with cops deciding, “Hey, let’s go down to the black part of town and kill somebody.” No, it began with a 911 call reporting an argument that had escalated to violence.

Who caused that escalation? Gosh, I have no idea:

Cell phone footage shows Jacob Blake entangled in a physical scuffle with police prior to being shot as he ignored officers’ warnings and reached inside his car.
The new video was published by the Daily Mail, which describes Blake “wrestling with at least two Kenosha officers” immediately before the shooting.
Local news in Wisconsin reports that Blake was charged by Kenosha County prosecutors prior to his altercation with the police on accusations of sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse.
An arrest warrant had been issued on July 7th, although it is unclear if the encounter with police officers that led to his shooting was linked to that warrant.
Blake had a history of resisting arrest, having previously done so when officers attempted to arrest him following an incident in which he pulled a gun on bar patrons in Racine, a town just north of Kenosha, in 2015.

Look, I’m not the one jumping to conclusions here; the people who burned down Kenosha, on the other hand, immediately decided that “racism” was to blame for this incident — and Joe Biden agrees.

But such an explanation ignores the chain of events before the shooting. If “racism” was the explanation, why didn’t cops shoot everybody on the scene? No, they shot the guy who had a history of criminal violence and why are we supposed to ignore that 2015 incident in Racine when Jacob Blake threatened people with a pistol?

Cooperate with the system. Follow the rules. Know your order before you arrive at the speaker in the McDonald’s drive-thru.

Just FYI, the old lady who caused the scene at the drive-thru was white. And maybe “white privilege” explains why nobody called 911 so that cops could show up and shoot her. Unfortunately.




 

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