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FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day & Other Disasters

Posted on | March 24, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day & Other Disasters

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“Ever seen that guy in the street carrying a sign that says THE END IS NEAR? Chances are he’s a PhilliesSenators fan.”
– Bill James, THIS TIME LET’S NOT EAT THE BONES, slightly modified

Actually, our opening series against Dom’s Royals at KC went well – we won two games in extra innings, because KC has no bullpen, and we probably would have won the third game in similar fashion if it hadn’t been rained out after the Royals scored four in the bottom of the fifth. Then we went to the frozen wasteland of Milwaukee and lost two out of three to Pete’s Brewers, following which we defrosted in San Francisco and lost two out of three to the Giants. So we’re 4-5 at the end of the first week, and our closer, Vicente Romo, is on the 10-day DL. The team doctor has advised us to start drinking heavily before our home opener against the Angels on Tuesday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Teddy Baseball is not in his happy place. He’s spending a lot of time talking to Coach Herzog…

In The Mailbox: 03.18.24
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EBL

Why Have Liberal Judges Suddenly Become Second Amendment Absolutists?
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The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
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EBL

Three Shot Dead in Bucks County, Pa.; Manhunt Underway for Fugitive Suspect; UPDATE: Suspect Takes Hostages; UPDATE: Suspect Now in Custody; Victims Identified as Family, Baby Mama
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‘An Extensive Criminal History’
Flappr
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EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Play Ball!
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Sleeping In
Animal Magnetism
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.20.24 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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EBL

In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Evening Edition)
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EBL

Illegal Alien From Eritrea on Terror Watch List Arrested in Gates County, N.C.
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In The Mailbox: 03.22.24
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Just a Couple of Car Thieves

Posted on | March 24, 2024 | Comments Off on Just a Couple of Car Thieves

Kensly Alston (left) and Halley Tejada (right)

On Wednesday, March 13, there was an auto accident in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania, involving a black Lexus with New York tags, driven by 16-year-old Kensly Alston. A check showed the vehicle was uninsured, and the police had it towed. Three days later — Saturday, March 16 — as the officer was writing his final report on the accident, he entered the car’s data into the computer and learned it had been reported stolen in New York City on March 14. The officer contacted NYPD and was told that the registered owner of the Lexus had been found dead in an apartment on March 14. Nadia Vitels, 52, had gone to the apartment — where her recently deceased mother had lived — on Tuesday, March 12:

According to authorities in New York, Vitels arrived at the apartment on March 12 to prepare it for a family friend. When she arrived, she found a man and a woman, believed to be Tejada and Alston, staying there without permission.
Authorities say a struggle ensued, and Vitels sustained a fatal injury after being slammed against a wall. She died of blunt force trauma to the head, authorities claim.
The suspects then stuffed her body in a duffel bag, stole her vehicle, and fled to Pennsylvania, authorities in New York believe.
Her body was found [March 14] by her son, who visited the apartment after not hearing from his mother for two days, reports out of New York state. As they were about to leave the apartment, the son opened the closet and discovered the duffel bag, with a foot sticking out.

As soon as police in Lower Paxton Township — more than 150 miles west of New York City — learned the car had been stolen from a murdered woman, they “immediately filed charges against both subjects for receiving stolen property, entered both subjects into NCIC [the National Crime Information Center database] and obtained felony criminal arrest warrants for each of them.” This Friday, U.S. Marshals caught up with Alston and Tejada about 30 miles away in York, Pennsylvania. They were extradited to face the charges in Lower Paxton Township, but have not yet been charged with the murder of Nadia Vitels.

Y’know, one hears from the advocates of “social justice” that it’s wrong to be concerned about mere property crimes like theft, burglary and trespassing. Such crimes are non-violent, we are told. If the people who break into your home and steal your car also decide to kill you? Well, then it’s OK to call the police, but you can’t send people to prison for mere property crimes, say the advocates of “social justice,” because that would result in mass incarceration. So until they kill somebody, criminals must be turned loose, and then one day there’s a car accident in Pennsylvania and the cops have no idea they’re dealing with two murderers, because the victim’s body hasn’t been found yet.

Please, liberals, tell me again why mass incarceration is a bad thing, because I’m not quite sure I understand the logic of your argument.



 

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Death Toll Mounts in ISIS Moscow Attack

Posted on | March 23, 2024 | Comments Off on Death Toll Mounts in ISIS Moscow Attack

When I got up this morning, the reported death toll was 115 from the terrorist attack on a concert at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. As of this writing, the total is 133, and it may go higher, as many of the wounded are in critical condition and might not make it.

State media reported Saturday that Russian authorities detained 11 people — including four suspected gunmen — for their involvement in a deadly attack on a crowded concert hall near Moscow on Friday that has left at least 133 people dead.
The attack left hundreds more injured, Russian officials said.
The four suspects were stopped in the Bryansk region of western Russia, “not far from the border with Ukraine,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said. They planned to cross the border into Ukraine and “had contacts” there, state news agency Tass said, citing Russia’s FSB. The head of the FSB briefed President Vladimir Putin on the arrests on Saturday, according to Tass.
Videos circulated on Russian social media show pandemonium inside the large concert hall, which is connected to a shopping mall. Videos show people screaming and ducking for cover as gunmen fire volley after volley of automatic gunfire. Other clips show the gunmen firing, sometimes at point-blank range. The attackers also set the venue on fire, causing a partial collapse of the building’s roof.
“The shots were constant,” eyewitness Dave Primov told CBS News. “People panicked and started to run. Some fell down and were trampled on.”
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack. A U.S. official told CBS News that the U.S. has intelligence confirming the Islamic State’s claims of responsibility, and that they have no reason to doubt those claims.
The U.S. Embassy in Russia had previously advised Americans to stay away from concert venues, citing the threat of a terrorist attack. The U.S. official confirmed that the U.S. provided intelligence to Russia about a potential attack under the intelligence community’s Duty to Warn requirement.

Wait, I thought we’d eliminated ISIS? It’s good that our intelligence was able to figure out that such an attack was coming, but I just got off the phone with a friend who was wondering, why Russia? Why now? Is this somehow related to the Russia/Chechnya conflict?

No doubt there will be plenty of conspiracy theories — “false flag”? — but the key takeaway, as far as I’m concerned, is that ISIS is still a danger, capable of mounting major terrorist attacks in distant countries, and we shouldn’t be too complacent about this threat.

UPDATE: Yup, it was definitely ISIS:



 

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In The Mailbox: 03.22.24

Posted on | March 23, 2024 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

And that’s the way it is.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Roadhouse Remake
Twitchy: Here’s The Sign Put Up At The Texas Border Area Overrun By Illegals, So He Was The Leaker, and TikTok “Nuclear Disarmament Consultant” Shares Unicorn Dreams Of A Nuke-Free World
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Mayor, with a straight face, blames Trump supporters for voting down his homeless agenda, also, Two NYC Squatters Wanted For Beating A Woman To Death. Stuffing Her In A Duffel Bag Inside Her Late Mother’s Apartment
Vox Popoli: Those Who Can See Demons, The Most Popular World Leader, Terror Attack Near Moscow, and Good News and Bad News
According To Hoyt: Another Turn Of The Wheel, A Fatal Lack Of Imagination, and Equalizing!
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RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Johnson’s Speakership on Life Support After MTG Files a MTV
American Greatness: Poll: Trump Leads Biden in All Seven Swing States, also, Speaker Johnson Counters Dem Attacks Against Netanyahu By Inviting Him to Address Congress
American Thinker: From Illegal Alien Invaders to Newcomers to Democrats, also, The Alarm Bell Is Clanging
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Step In The Right Direction Friday
Babalu Blog: A march for freedom in Cuba to take place in Miami on Sunday, Cuban opposition group says Cuba is ready to transition to democracy, and Death of another Cuban mercenary in Ukraine revealed
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For March 22
Behind The Black: ISRO completes second drop test runway landing of its own mini-reusable shuttle, Private Indian company scrubs suborbital test launch, Martian vent or sink? and Australia moves to make skin color and sex more important in hiring space engineers than skill or knowledge
Cafe Hayek: Gramm’s and Boudreaux’s Letter in The Economist on Lighthizer’s Misunderstanding of Trade
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: History Friday – The Angel of Goliad
Da Tech Guy: Voices of the 2024 Catholic Men’s Conference – The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Odor Of Mendacity Edition
Don Surber: They all laughed
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: I Was Only Following Orders, The Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden, Part 17, No Longer Welcome in Arnhem, and Putting the AfD Behind Bars
The Geller Report: NYC: Squatters Kill Homeowner, This After Another Homeowner Was Arrested for Trying to Keep Squatters Out of Her Home by Changing the Locks, also, Trump Social Media Company Merger APPROVED, Trump’s Windfall Upwards of $3 Billion or More
Hollywood In Toto: Is Billy Ray’s Jan. 6 Project Hollywood’s October Surprise?
The Lid: In a City without Republicans, Left-Wing Chicago Mayor Accuses GOP Of Defeating His Tax on ‘The Rich’
Legal Insurrection: Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez Won’t File for the Democratic Primary, Islamic State Attack In Moscow, Dozens Dead at Concert Hall, Texas Withdraws $8.5 billion From BlackRock Over ESG-Investment Practices, Candace Owens Out At Daily Wire, and Westerly (RI) School Committee Unanimously Rejects State Transgender Guidance Excluding Parents From “Social Transitioning”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Once upon a time in America
Outkick: Louisville Residents Buy $8,000 Worth Of Oakland Gear After Kentucky Loss In NCAA Tournament, Rivalry Lives On, Former UCLA Player Roasts Steve Alford (And His Hair) After Embarrassing March Madness Loss, Volleyball Player Injured By Trans Athlete Fires Back At Dems Who Dismiss Safety Concerns, Red Sox Hype Is At An All-Time Low In Boston, Fans Can’t Even Name The Players, John Calipari Cowardly Threw His Team Under The Bus After Oakland Loss, Sad Kentucky Girl Who Drove The Internet Crazy Last Night Has Been Identified, and ‘Sad Kentucky Girl’ Creates A Buzz, Sarah Michelle Gellar Brings The Heat & March Madness Sex Bracket
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Enemies of the People, World’s Dumbest NCAA Bracket, and Return to Shifa
Shark Tank: DeSantis Touts Florida’s Unemployment Rate – Lower Than The National Average
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To The Mall Of America, also, Orwell Was A Pollyanna
This Ain’t Hell: Army four-star “helps” lower ranker, Valor Friday, Letitia James ready to seize some of Donald Trump’s assets, Delta Force veteran faces additional federal criminal charges, and Protesters at Kyle Rittenhouse event – no justice, no peace
Transterrestrial Musings: Duty, Honor, And Country, The Censorship Industrial Complex, Climate, The Movie, The Union Station Debacle, and Space And Success
Victory Girls: World Crisis Of Refugees Is Here
Volokh Conspiracy: New Amicus Brief: Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Not An “Officer of the United States”
Watts Up With That: Nuclear Subsidies Galore, Friday Funny: Sen John Kennedy Embarrasses another Climate “Expert Witness”, and Aussie Green Panic: “the nuclear push is designed to bring … renewables to a halt”
The Federalist: Doctors Sick Of America’s Broken Health Care System Found A Better Way To Treat Patients, Greene Files Motion To Oust Speaker Johnson After House Passes Mega Spending Bill, To Stop The Border Invasion, Get Tough On Mexico, Gov. Healey Shrugs Off Illegal Border Crosser Who Raped Teen: ‘Things Will Happen’, Democrat Bills To Expand Ranked-Choice Voting And Make IDs Less Secure Are Sitting On Youngkin’s Desk, and Media Smear GOP Candidate Seeking To Primary Leftist-Friendly Arizona Election Official
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Illegal Alien From Eritrea on Terror Watch List Arrested in Gates County, N.C.

Posted on | March 22, 2024 | Comments Off on Illegal Alien From Eritrea on Terror Watch List Arrested in Gates County, N.C.

Awet Hagos was arrested in North Carolina

Do you remember the uproar in 2018 when Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and certain African countries as fecal depositories? Of course, he was accused of using more blunt language than that, but the point is that he allegedly made this remark in a discussion with Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin about a “bipartisan compromise” involving so-called “Dreamers,” which would have involved ending the visa lottery. Trump asked what a lot of common-sense Americans would have asked, i.e., why are we taking in people from the most wretched places on the planet, rather than from, say, Norway? (Trump had recently met with the Norwegian prime minister before the discussion with Durbin.) Because Democrats have no answer for such an obvious question, they responded by denouncing Trump as a “RAAAAACIST“! Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, common-sense people have more questions:

How Did A Migrant
On The FBI’s Terrorist Watch List
Get To North Carolina?

Probably the answer is, when you just stop enforcing immigration law completely — as the Biden administration seems to have done — and throw the doors open to millions of foreigners without limit, a certain percentage of those arrivals will be, shall we say, problematic.

And this guy from Eritrea is very problematic:

An illegal migrant, who was taken into custody following a barricade shooting incident in North Carolina, was allegedly found to be on a terrorist watch list and had been living in the area for six months.
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 32-year-old Awet Hagos is a citizen of Eritrea, a small country on the coast of Northeast Africa.
Immigration officers said that Hagos entered the U.S. illegally after residing in Haiti and had been living in North Carolina for the last six months.
After running Hagos’ fingerprints, authorities allegedly found that he was on the terrorist watch list.
Gates County Sheriff’s Office said that they were first alerted to Hagos when a barricade incident unfolded at a Quick Stop gas station.
Police said that on Monday, March 11, at approximately 6:40 p.m., deputies responded to reports of gunfire.
Local authorities, along with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, attempted to take Hagos into custody, but he became “extremely combative” and attempted to disarm a deputy of their firearm.
After the altercation, police said that Hagos fled into his home and led police on a four-hour standoff.
Hagos was eventually safely taken into custody and charged with three counts of assault on a government official, three counts of resisting a public officer, and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
Hagos was placed under a $100,000 secured bond and transported to Albemarle District Jail.
Following reports that Hagos was an illegal migrant and on the terrorist watchlist, three Republicans, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is running for governor, Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden.
The leaders demanded that Biden provide more information about Hagos and details about his alleged terrorist activity.
“Our understanding is that this violent individual is originally from an area near Yemen, a known hot-bed of anti-American terrorist activity,” the letter said.
“Clearly, this is a grave concern, not only for the people of North Carolina but for our entire nation,” the letter said.

Some background: Gates County is a rural community with a little over 10,000 people, next to the Virginia border, about 50 miles southwest of Norfolk. The Quick Stop gas station where this incident occurred is in a place called Eure, which is just a wide spot in the road on U.S. 13.

Among the many questions raised by this incident is, how is it that the federal government, with its massive law enforcement resources, could not catch this foreign terrorist, but the sheriff’s department in tiny Gates County was able to apprehend him? But what the hell was this guy doing there in the first place? Do you remember, a few weeks ago, when a mob of Eritrean protesters shut down a highway in Charlotte, N.C.? It would seem that the Biden administration has chosen North Carolina as the designated dumping ground for Eritrean “refugees.” WAVY-TV in Norfolk reported that Hagos “had previously lived in Haiti and . . . had been brought into the area by the owner of the Carolina Quick Stop store, where the incident took place, according to the sheriff’s office.” According to the Raleigh News-Observer, Hagos was working at the store:

The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald and WAVY-TV, which first covered the police standoff about a week ago, reported that the sheriff said Hagos recently moved to Gates County from Oakland, California, and had been in the state for six months.
An ICE spokesperson told The News & Observer that Hagos “entered the United States as a nonimmigrant in 2016 and violated terms of admission.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issues nonimmigrant visas to foreign nationals who want to enter the U.S. on a temporary basis, according to the agency, for “tourism, medical treatment, business, temporary work, study, or other similar reasons.”

One could easily think of a long list of questions about this — e.g., who is the Quick Stop owner and why did he hire this Eritrean to work there? — but the point is that (a) Eritrea is a fecal depository of a country and (b) we need to elect Donald Trump so he can put a stop to the Biden administration’s dangerous open-borders shenanigans.



 

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In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | March 22, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Spring, Palm Royale, and Angela Chao, RIP
Twitchy: Rep. Massie Lays Out The Facts About Kyle Rittenhouse, David Hogg Gets Dragged For Encouraging Mobs To Go After Kyle Rittenhouse, and Professor is Literally Shaking With Rage At Chris Rufo For Exposing More Plagiarism
Louder With Crowder: “I don’t have to be nice to you”: Parent torches school board, wins the internet with this lesson on Free Speech, also, Don Lemon’s obsession with Elon Musk hits new low with his latest accusation
Vox Popoli: The Case of the Missing Princess SOLVED, US Troops on Taiwan, Sounds Like an Affirmative, No Longer Fake and Gay, and A Meme, Answered
Upstream Reviews: Sword Summer

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Mass of the Ages – Warm Fuzzy material for Latin Mass Moderates
American Conservative: What Can $1.2 Trillion Buy In Washington? Nothing Good
American Greatness: Oversight Hearing: Bobulinski Blasts ‘Serial Liar and Fabulist’ Joe Biden, Accuses Hunter and Jim Biden Of Perjury, Biden’s Border Blowup, and DeSantis Suggests Sending Haitian Illegal Aliens to Martha’s Vineyard
American Thinker: Exploding The Myth That Islam Is An Abrahamic Religion, also, How Many Millions of Illegal Aliens in the Country Does the Democrat Party Need to Destroy America?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship tries to quell protesters by giving them an extra 3 pounds of rice rations, Hunger grows in rural Cuba as stores are empty and no food is delivered, and Cuba aims to lure more Russian tourists as number of European visitors keeps shrinking
BattleSwarm: Is Trump Picking Up Black Voters?
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches classified smallsat for National Reconnaissance Office, Red China’s Long March 2D launches “group of satellites”; Russia scrubs manned Soyuz launch, Six launch companies give updates on the status of their rockets, Citizen scientist project discovers 16 active asteroids, SpaceX launches a cargo Dragon to ISS, and Mob of Democrats threatens violence against conservative students at the University of Memphis
Cafe Hayek: Scott Lincicome Proposes Not Doing Nothing About Foreign-Government Subsidies, and I Agree, also, Is It A Spoof?
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: An Interesting Side Note Concerning the “Bloodbath” of Job Losses at Work Women Choosing the Better Portion, also, To imagine what hell the United States would be without the First Amendment we just need to examine the rest of the world
Don Surber: Bidenomics, meet Biden diplomacy
First Street Journal: When a reporter has more of an agenda than an understanding of economics and business, also, OK, OK, this was bad, but really, I’m sure that were about to turn their lives around, any day now!
Gates Of Vienna: Marion Maréchal – For Our Civilization Against Islamization, Culture-Enriching “Germans” Thwarted in Their Planned Attack on Sweden, Muscle Car, and Goodbye, Cruel World!
The Geller Report: 200K Illegal Deportation Cases Thrown Out of Court Because Biden Regime Didn’t File Paperwork
Hollywood In Toto: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Slimes Us with Nostalgia, David Lucas Trashes BLM in Fiery Podcast Q&A, and American Society of Magical Negroes Hurts Race Relations Post-George Floyd
The Lid: Disaster: A Record American 11 Embassies Around the World have been Evacuated Under Joe Biden
Legal Insurrection: Is pain racist? Advil seems to think so, Barrington (RI) Veterans Council Resigns In Protest Of Town Flying BLM Flag Over Veterans Memorial, AOC Thinks RICO Isn’t a Crime in Heated Exchange With Former Hunter Associate, Columbia College and Columbia Engineering to Host Segregated Graduations in May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Stands With Floridian Property Owners Over Squatters, and EPA’s New Mandate Designed ‘to Ensure Nearly 70%’ of New Car Sales be Electric Vehicles Within a Few Years
Nebraska Energy Observer: With friends like these
Outkick: Family Affair: Tennessee, Saint Peter’s Matchup Highlighted By Zakai, Armoni Zeigler Battle At NCAA Tournament, Tennessee, Saint Peter’s Fans In Charlotte Come Together In Celebration Of Kentucky’s Loss To Oakland, “Just Shoot It, Baby!” 14-Seed Oakland Shocks Kentucky On 3-Point Gohlke(s) Galore, Is The Shohei Ohtani Gambling Story Believable? An Insider Perspective, Long Beach State AD Fired Dan Monson So Team ‘Would Play Inspired’, Says Monson Approached Him About Leaving, Woman Joins Funeral Service Via Zoom From The Shower, Forgets To Turn Camera Off, and Video In Dodgers Dugout Casts Doubt On Shohei Ohtani Interpreter Story
Power Line: Biden’s True Misery Index, The Battle For Congress Shapes Up, and Inside the Biden family business
Shark Tank: Lobbyists With Red Chinese Connections Targeted In New Rubio Bill
Shot In The Dark: Controlled Demolition, Polling Results Are In, and An Analogy, If I May
This Ain’t Hell: “Squatter’s Rights”, also, Team Biden to Israel – Secure Egypt-Gaza border
Transterrestrial Musings: The Space Force, also, Vernor Vinge
Victory Girls: TikTok Influencer Gives Illegals “Tips” On Home Invasion And Squatters Rights, also, Biden to Americans: You Will Buy EVs or You Will Stay Home
Volokh Conspiracy: Progressive Lawyers Engage In Actual Judge Shopping In Alabama
Watts Up With That: “Make politicians afraid to start their cars again”: British Wannabe Ecoterrorist Jailed for 13 Years, Arctic’s Inuit Seek Benefits of Fossil Fuel Economy, and Texas Schools Pull $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG
The Federalist: Democrats Canceled Their Florida Primary To Help Biden. It Backfired And Helped Republicans Flip Local Seats, House Republicans Press VA Over ‘Shocking’ IVF Policy Funding Motherless Kids, ‘Alabama Votes Are Not For Sale’: Gov. Ivey Signs Law Barring Third Parties From Trafficking Ballot Applications, Everything Senate Democrats Lied About During Their IVF And Abortion-For-All Hearing, How To Rescue ‘The Anxious Generation’ From The Smartphones Ruining Their Lives, and How Did A Migrant On The FBI’s Terrorist Watch List Get To North Carolina?
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In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 21, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.21.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

How I feel looking at X and Feedly before doing this

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.
OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: SON OF SILVERCON 2, Black Death, and Donald Trump calls out Chuck U. Schumer for being Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel
Twitchy: Updated Swing State Polls Show Biden Campaign Gaslighting Backfiring Badly, Woketards At Google Busted For Quietly Changing Definition Of This Word, and The SLEAZIEST Vote-Trafficking Lawyer!
Louder With Crowder: “Shark Tank” star drops truth bombs all over CNN about Trump “fraud” case: “You think this is good for business in America?”
Vox Popoli: The Case of the Missing Princess 2, The Wicked Generation: British Boomer Edition, Go Away, Gamma, A Sacrifice to the Clown Gods, and Meme of the Week
Upstream Reviews: Penance
Ammo.com: More Guns = More Crime Is A Myth

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Moreno Survives in Ohio With Trump and Vance’s Support
American Greatness: Report: Biden Has Meltdown in Private Meeting over General Election Polling, SCOTUS Unblocks SB4, Allows Texas Police to Arrest Suspected Illegal Border Crossers–Update: Appeals Court Issues New Hold, With GOP Nomination Wrapped up Trump’s ‘Art of The Comeback’ is Nearly Complete, Ketanji Brown Jackson Mocked for Criticizing First Amendment’s ‘Hamstringing’ of Government, Schumer Calls for Regime Change in Israel, and Female Athletes Suing NCAA Over Biological Men Being Allowed to Compete
American Thinker: The Buck Stops in Northern Colorado, Democrats Cannot Win a Fraud-Free Election, Call it the ‘Autocratic’ Party, There’s A Deadly Race War Raging In America, and Judge McAfee Ruling Is The Latest Blow to Public Trust in Government
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Bush Plane News, First Day of Spring, and Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Surprise! Cuba and North Korea congratulate Putin on his landslide election victory, Over 100 Russian companies are operating in Cuba, more to come, and Cuban opposition leader and prisoner of conscience Jose Daniel Ferrer still alive, but in poor health
BattleSwarm: Cuba Runs Out Of Money, also, Supreme Court: Yes, Texas Can Deport Illegal Aliens. 5th Circuit: Psych!
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, India’s Vikram lander disturbed the lunar surface the least of all landers, Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford passes away at 93, China launches communications orbiter towards the Moon, Orbit Fab announces price tag for installing its refuelling port on satellites, SpaceX’s next Superheavy/Starship launch, according to SpaceX, and Is the Republican Party finally doing the election due diligence it should have been doing since 2020?
Cafe Hayek: True Statistics Can Create False Impressions, also, Bryan Caplan Urges “Build, Baby, Build”!
CDR Salamander: The View From ADM Aquilino’s Chair, 
Da Tech Guy: Pennsylvania: Democrats can’t pay the bills, also, Voices of the 2024 Worcester Catholic Men’s Conference – Peter Mercier, Catholic Musician
Dana Loesch: Wednesday Radio Prep, Obama-Appointed Federal Judge Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Carry Guns, 
Don Surber: In praise of ties
Gates Of Vienna: A Report From Martin Sellner on His Arrest in Switzerland, Olaf Scholz Meets With Benjamin Netanyahu, Marion Maréchal: “I Do Not Want France to Become a Muslim Country”, and A Historic Event Just Happened
The Geller Report: Supreme Court Pivots, Will ALLOW Texas To Arrest, Deport Illegals In Stunning Blow to Biden Regime, Biden Business Partner Dropping Bombs on House Hearing on Biden Corruption, Exposes Reps. Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman for Lying on Behalf of the Biden Crime Family, NYC Poll: 50 Percent of the City Plans to Leave in Next 5 Years, and Nevada Hit With GOP Lawsuit Over ‘Impossibly High’ Voter Registration
Hollywood In Toto: This Civil War Director’s Quote Matters (Really), Howie Mandel Shreds Woke – No One Is ‘Damaged’ By Comedy, Bardejov (Sadly) Arrives at the Perfect Time, Why Road House Can’t Measure Up to the Original, and Joe Rogan on ‘Bloodbath’ Media Hoax: ‘Inaccurate … Deceptive’
The Lid: Electric Car Buy Hurts Hertz, Forcing CEO to Step Down
Legal Insurrection: IDF Eliminates 90 Terrorists, Apprehends Hundreds in Raid on Gaza Shifa Hospital Complex, Top Diversity Official at Columbia University Medical School Accused of Plagiarism, Unilever Dropping Anti-Israel Company Ben & Jerry’s as It Exits the Ice Cream Business, DeSantis May Send Haitian Migrants Arriving in Florida to Martha’s Vineyard, DEI Certificate Programs Proliferate: “Training a Cadre of Political Commissars”, Glenn Youngkin Reviewing DEI Content in Courses at Two Virginia Universities, and Arizona State U. Conservative Prof Sues School Over Mandatory DEI Training
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Why Have Liberal Judges Suddenly Become Second Amendment Absolutists?

Posted on | March 20, 2024 | 2 Comments

Judge Melissa Logan Bellows presides in Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Kentucky, which is to say, Louisville, a community torn by racial conflict ever since the Breonna Taylor shooting. During the 2020 election, Joe Biden won only two counties in Kentucky, and Jefferson was one of them. Although judicial elections in Kentucky are officially non-partisan, we might presume that Bellows is a Democrat. However, Bellows was endorsed by the local Republican Party in her 2022 election, in which her opponent was a local civil rights lawyer.

Well, if she’s a Republican, she’s gone rogue:

Prohibiting a convicted felon from possessing a gun is unconstitutional, according to a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge’s ruling.
Judge Melissa Logan Bellows filed the order this week, dismissing the possession charge against a convicted felon and persistent felony offender, Jecory Frazier.
The motion to dismiss was filed by Louisville Attorney Rob Eggert in October on behalf of his client. Eggert claimed the state’s law does not trump the Second Amendment. Bellows agreed, making the first ruling of its kind in Jefferson County.
Trisha Lister, an attorney at Eggert’s office, wrote the motion.
She believes Bellows’ opinion was well-written.
She told WAVE News Troubleshooters the Second Amendment does not single out convicted felons. She said the charge has been not been equally enforced and is used as a way to keep people of color from having guns. Lister stated over 70% of those prosecuted on that standalone charge are minorities.

Dana Pico has more on what he calls the “curious” argument made by Judge Bellows in her decision, the full PDF of which is here. The claim that “minorities” account for 70% of those prosecuted on felon-in-possession charges might have something to do with the fact that most crime is committed by young people, and the current demographic situation is such that, in many communities, “minorities” are actually a majority of the youth population. Are cops just letting white criminals go free? I rather doubt it, but that’s not really the issue. Rather, the issue is whether Jecory Frazier should be in prison and, considering that he is a “persistent felony offender,” the answer to that question is, “Hell, yes.”

No sooner had I digested this crazy decision from Kentucky, than a Chicago judge decided that the federal law prohibiting firearms possession by illegal aliens is unconstitutional:

Ajudge this month dropped gun charges against an illegal migrant in Illinois, sparking further debate about the rights associated with the Second Amendment.
U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was illegally or unlawfully in the United States when he possessed a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1, 2020.
“The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores’ criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense,” Coleman, who was appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her eight-page ruling filed March 8.
Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, which legally disallows undocumented individuals to possess firearms and ammunition “or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.”
The defendant, who contended the firearm was possessed for self-defense and protection of property “during a time of documented civil unrest” in the spring of 2020, has never been convicted of a felony, a violent crime or a crime involving the use of a weapon.

This is insane. My only guess as to why the judge would rule this way — besides the fact that she’s a DEI hire appointed by Obama — is that Democrats want to use the Bruen decision as a legal mechanism to turn loose criminals, including illegal aliens, arrested on gun charges. But this is the exact opposite of what their rhetoric about stopping “gun violence” would suggest. If your aim is to prevent such violence, then getting criminals off the street should be Job Number One. The vast majority of “gun violence” in America is perpetrated by repeat offenders, especially those associated with drug trafficking by urban gangs. State and federal laws prohibiting convicted felons from possessing firearms gives prosecutors a powerful tool to get these repeat offenders off the street for a long time. As for illegal aliens with guns, well, you could just deport them — but Democrats don’t want to do that either.

The simplest explanation: Whatever is good for America, Democrats are against. Whatever is bad for America, they’re for.



 

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