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Bonfire of the Wokeness: Feminist Editor ‘Steps Down’ Amid Racism Accusations

Posted on | June 9, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Ed Driscoll actually has a stack of headlines about this:

Bon Appetit Editor Resigns
After ‘Brownface’ Photos Surface
— Daily Wire

Refinery29 Editor Resigns After Former
Employees Describe ‘Toxic Culture’
— New York Times

Cancel culture was propped up by the media.
Now, they’re suffering the consequences
— Washington Examiner

The situation at Refinery29 has many layers of rich, sweet irony. The site was started in 2005, and hoovered up more than $100 million in investment capital before being sold to Vice Media last year for a reported $400 million. Refinery29 was originally a fashion/lifestyle sort of site, but in 2015 decided to dive into politics and news — of course from an ultra-“woke” left-wing intersectional feminist angle.

The person presiding over this was editor-in-chief Christene Barberich, who decided that hiring a lot of “women of color” (WOCs) would convey sufficient wokeness, but amid the #BlackLivesMatter furor, a former black staffer at Refinery29 decided to “spill the tea,” as the kids say, about her experiences working at the publication. Using the hashtag #BlackAtR29, several other ex-staffers joined in, and within a couple of days, Barberich announced she would “step down” as editor. In other words, she got fired from a company that she started — yes, Barberich was a cofounder of Refinery29, and had put 15 years of her life into the site, from start-up to corporate acquisition, but none of that matters, because racism! Oh, how beautiful! Barberich was all about the “sisterhood,” supporting the Women’s March and every trendy progressive cause that came along, but it wasn’t enough, because it’s never enough. Hire as many WOCs as you want, and you’re still just another cracker honky when push comes to shove.


 

 

Category: Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 06.08.20

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Hacking Isn’t Like It’s Portrayed In The Movies
EBL: The First Wave At Omaha Beach – 6 June 1944
Twitchy: Sean Spicier’s Tweets Mocking ANTIFA, Congessional Democrats, & The Riots Drive Leftists Insane
Louder With Crowder: Maximum Democratic Pandering, also, WHO Now Says Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infected May Not Spread The Virus As Much As They Thought
Vox Popoli: The Promethean Playbook, also, This Cult Is Not New
TruePundit:  Gov. Cuomo Tells Protesters “Assume You Are Infected” (h/t NeoWayland)

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Middle Class Imploding Edition, also, A Sunday Feast
American Conservative: What Is “Systemic Racism”, Really? also, Is Beijing Preparing For Backdoor Military Action Against Taiwan?
American Greatness: General Mattis Has Betrayed The Marines & America, also, Boycott The NFL
American Power: Defund The Police Movement Based On Lies, also, Dana Loesch, Grace Cancelled
American Thinker: Just Like That, Gun Control & Corona-Chan Died This Week, also, Desperate #FakeNews Media In Overdrive
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Black Lives Matter Honors Fidel Castro, also, Promoting Leftist Ideas Is What Matters To BLM
BattleSwarm: The Sick Religion Of Social Justice, also, BidenWatch For June 8
Cafe Hayek: “Calif-Ornery”, also, Incentives & Motives
CDR Salamander: “Dunkirk & The Little Ships” With Dr. Paul Weir On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: The Jobs Report & The Coming “Well, Screw That” Moment For The Black Community, also, After The Riots, My Walk Down Chicago’s Magnificent Mile
Don Surber: Biden Happens When You Trust The Media, also, The Case Against Bailing Out The States
First Street Journal: Democrisy – More Idiotic Pandering To #BlackLivesMatter
Fred On Everything: Her Name Is Breonna Taylor
The Geller Report: BLM/Antifa Rioters Attack Houston Childrens’ Hospital, Terrorize Children, also, Mayor DiBlasio Defunds The NYPD
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, NGC 6441
Hollywood In Toto: Quiet Crossing Offers Timeless Tale Of Political Oppression, also, Meet The Godfather Of Faith-Based Films
JustOneMinute: Faster Pander More, also, WHO Has News; Who Cares?
Legal Insurrection: Minneapolis City Council President – “The Ability To Call Police Over Robbery Comes From A Place Of Privilege”, also, Alternative Suggestions Roll In For Celebrities & Politicians Who Want To Defund The Police
The PanAm Post: A Golden Ticket For Taiwan, also, Maduro’s Infiltrators Join Violent Protests In The U.S.
Power Line: Blacks Like Trump, also, Third Precinct Arsonist Charged
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Sounds Alarm About Nursing Home Safety Shortages
Shot In The Dark: These Are Our “Elites”
STUMP: Defund Police Pensions – Would That Really Save A Lot Of Money?
The Political Hat: News Of The Week
This Ain’t Hell: Marine Corps Bans Confederate Imagery, also, A Letter From Larry Correia
Victory Girls: Minneapolis City Council Goes For Woke
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The Future Of Free Speech In Jeopardy?
Weasel Zippers: White #BLM Protesters Attack Black Policeman In Austin, also, Black Georgia State Trooper Refuses To Kneel At Protest
Mark Steyn: Pontypool, also, One Giant College Campus

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Police: Colorado Lawyer Shot Disabled Veteran Who Drove Through Protest

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

I’m not a lawyer, so I might be mistaken, but I don’t the Colorado bar association approves of attempted murder:

A lawyer who was reportedly participating in a small George Floyd-related street protest allegedly shot a driver in the head on Thursday evening in downtown Alamosa, Colo. The driver is reportedly on life support.
The victim is identified by several news outlets as Danny Pruitt, 49, reportedly a disabled military veteran and single father.
Cops arrested defense attorney James Marshall, 27, on a slew of charges about three hours later in connection with the shooting.
Although an investigation is ongoing into this extremely disturbing incident, Alamosa cops say there is no evidence thus far that Pruitt tried to drive his vehicle into or through the group, despite what some of the demonstrators apparently claimed.
In the incident in the southern Colorado municipality about 230 miles from Denver, the driver arrived at an intersection when sign-holding protesters were conducting their demonstration, KRDO, NewsChannel 13, explained about the surveillance footage it obtained.
“The video shows about a dozen protesters were lining Main Street with signs in hand. A black truck pulls up and as the driver goes through the crosswalk. That’s when a protester reaches in their pocket and pulls out what police say is a gun. The surveillance video shows the protester aim the object at the passenger side window of the truck. Within 11 seconds of nearing the crosswalk, the trucks comes to a halt in the middle of the intersection. Protesters immediately scatter…” . . .

 

Pruitt is reportedly in critical condition with a bullet in his brain. His niece has set up a GoFundMe page for the benefit of her uncle and his young daughter.
According to the page, “Danny was on his way to get dinner, when his vehicle was swarmed by protesters. One protester decided to make a calculated decision, shooting through Danny’s driver side window, the bullet hitting Danny in the back of the head.”

On his website, Marshall describes himself as a native of the suburbs of Cincinnati who graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State in 2015, then attended the University of Colorado Law School. After getting his law degree in 2018, Marshall worked for the Colorado public defender’s office in Durango before opening a private practice in Alamosa. What could have motivated him to shoot Pruitt is a mystery, but there’s a lot of craziness going around lately, and Crazy People Are Dangerous.


 

 

Category: Colorado, Crime

‘Protester’ Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

New York’s legal profession attracts top-quality people:

A George Floyd protester was arrested after he made a threat on live television to burn down Manhattan’s ritzy Diamond District, cops said Sunday.
Israel Burns, 34, of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was arrested about 8 p.m. on Saturday after he was interviewed on Fox News earlier in the day and threatened to burn down the Diamond District if the mayor and governor didn’t come to speak to a crowd gathered at Barclays Center, video shows.
“Today, I’m giving a demonstration from Barclays Center at 6 p.m. to City Hall, and that’s the first stop and we’re hoping de Blasio and Cuomo come out and talk to us and give the youth some direction,” he told the reporter.
“But if they don’t, then [the] next stop is the Diamond District,” he said. “And gasoline, thanks to Trump, is awfully cheap. So we’re giving them a chance right now to do the right thing.”
Cops arrested the man, who identified himself on the video as “Ace Burns,” after identifying him by his distinctive face mask, authorities said.
Burns was charged with making terroristic threats and aggravated harassment.

In case you don’t know, New York’s “Diamond District” — the neighborhood of 47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue — is largely Jewish, so that this threat was implicitly anti-Semitic.

 

Gateway Pundit broke the news today that Israel Adam “Ace” Burns is a Brooklyn attorney, who graduated from Rutgers Law School and appears to have many influential friends:

 

After graduating from Rutgers Law School with honors, he was hired as an Associate at the prestigious New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, an international law firm with well over 800 attorneys around the world. He practiced in the Litigation and Employment Law departments and personally handled some of the largest clients in the world including Prudential, Deloitte, and T-Mobile.

Recall last week that two Brooklyn lawyers, one of them a Princeton alumnus, were charged with attempting to firebomb a police car.


 

 

Category: Crime, New York, Racism

Seven Killed in ‘Cold-Blooded’ Murder

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | Comments Off on Seven Killed in ‘Cold-Blooded’ Murder

 

Valhermoso Springs is an Alabama town in Morgan County about 20 miles south of Hunstsville. Last week, this quiet rural community was the scene of a horrific murder in which seven people were shot to death:

Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at a residence in Morgan County late Thursday.
The shooting took place at a home on the 500 block of Talucah Road in Valhermoso Springs close to Somerville at a little before 11:30 p.m., according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s office. . . .
The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office identified six of the victims: Tammy England Muzzey, 45, and 21-year-old Emily Brooke Payne, both of Valhermoso Springs; Roger Lee Jones Jr., 19, of Decatur; a 17-year-old juvenile girl; 31-year-old Jeramy Wade Roberts of Athens; and 18-year-old William Zane Hodgin of Somerville. A black male victim has yet to be identified.
Deputies said there are two white men, two black men and three white women. . . .
Upon arrival at the residence Thursday night, at 11:23, deputies saw part of the home was on fire and later discovered seven bodies inside after the fire was extinguished.
“It is a horrific scene and to be able to process it will take some time,” MCSO’s public information officer Mike Swafford told a local TV news station. . . .
Swafford told AL.com that investigators believe the suspect went to the residence with the intention of shooting everyone there.
Some victims had multiple gunshot wounds, Swafford said. Authorities are still working to identify all of the victims, but Swafford said some lived at the house where the shootings occurred.
“Incredibly heinous, talking cold-blooded,” Swafford said in describing the homicides.

The seventh victim was later identified as James Wayne Benford, 22, and the Daily Mail reported that the 17-year-old female was Dakota Green. It appears that this mass murder was drug-related:

Authorities and neighbors say the shooting deaths in a Valhermoso Springs house could be drug-related, but authorities have been tight-lipped about specific details because of the ongoing investigation. . . .
Payne’s mother, Vanessa Hipp of Madison, fought back tears at the crime scene Friday morning.
“I can’t put how I feel in words,” she said. “We suffered a great loss today.”
Wanda Thompson of Somerville, the mother of Muzzey, said she was in shock.
“I’m lost. I can’t even cry,” she said. . . .
Swafford said sheriff’s deputies are familiar with the residence. He said deputies have responded to six calls at the location during 2020, including three drug overdoses.
He said in past years, calls to the residence have involved drugs, robbery, trespassing and disturbances.
“It’s incredibly heinous (as a crime scene),” he said. “Our theory right now is whoever did this, came in here for a reason, did it and left.”
He said investigators are not ruling out that more than one shooter committed the crime. . . .
Some neighbors said they hear gunshots along the street on a regular basis.
“A barn behind that house burned down a few years ago because somebody was cooking meth there,” said Lawrence Lang, who has lived a few houses to the south of the crime scene for the past 21 years. “I don’t associate with those people.”
Thompson said she was having “problems with the people” at her daughter’s house, which was where the shooting occurred.
“People we didn’t even know were hanging around,” Thompson said. “I ran people off several weeks in a row. … Somebody was angry when they killed them.”
Another neighbor, Dennis Romback, said he observed traffic to and from the house at all hours. “(The shootings) are most likely drug-related. Overall, this is a quiet neighborhood. If authorities come around here, it’s usually to that house.”

Seven people dead and nothing on national news. You’re not going to see coverage on CNN. It’s as if the only time they consider murder to be newsworthy is when they can exploit it for politics.


 

 

Category: Alabama, Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: Blast From The Past – Bettie Page

Posted on | June 8, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

She really needs no introduction, does she?

The Queen of Pinups

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1007, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five Line Up for Guns Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Mirielle Mathieu, Louis Vuitton, Salome, I Puritani, Orfeo Et Euridice, Lulu, Tosca, The Exterminating Angel, Mia Sara, Juliana Hatfield, and Otello.

A View From The Beach reels in Like Pepper to Salt – Devin Brugman, You Can’t Fix Stupid, Fish Pic Friday, “Diamonds and Rust”, More Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, Motorcycles for Monday and Still Too Rich For My Blood.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe is Yvonne Craig, Bacon Time has a Random Chick In Red, and Red Pilled Jew has Women and Cars.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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Category: Rule 5

Mamelukes, Marines, & A Wizard

Posted on | June 7, 2020 | Comments Off on Mamelukes, Marines, & A Wizard

— by Wombat-socho

I became a fan of Jerry Pournelle’s SF back in 1972, when I read “The Mercenary” in Analog, and for the next 40+ years I snapped up pretty much everything he wrote in the way of SF, and quite a few of the anthologies he edited as well. One of those books, in the summer of 1979, was Janissaries, in which Rick Galloway and a handful of mercenaries are saved from certain death in Africa…by aliens. The aliens take them to the planet Tran, where they find several groups of humans from different ages of human history, and things begin to go sideways for Galloway at that point as most of his men desert him in favor of the more experienced Andre Parsons. Things eventually work out for Galloway, who consistently chooses the hard right over the easy wrong, and over the next two novels (co-written with Roland Green) he makes considerable headway toward raising the tech level on Tran, maneuvering in the lethal local politics, and getting started on growing the madweed the aliens want. Unfortunately, the third novel in the series came out in 1987, and while Pournelle announced periodic progress, Mamelukes never made it into print until after his death. I have to say that I wouldn’t have minded seeing it finished sooner, but David Weber and Philip Pournelle did a good job of wrapping the story up seamlessly. I for one can’t tell where Jerry’s writing left off and David & Philip picked up, and if they choose to let the series lay at this point, I’d be okay with it. On the other hand, there are a few plot threads that could be followed into a fifth (and, perhaps, concluding) novel, and we shall see what the Pournelle kids want to do with it. We know Jennifer has the chops for it, and perhaps Philip could do the fifth novel justice as well. Very much worth your time.

Rick Partlow’s Contact Front is an interesting mil-SF novel. Instead of the usual wholesome hero, we get a Marine who chooses to join the Confederation Marines to avoid facing trial for murder, and while Cam Alvarez proves to be really good at mastering the powered armor suits, he’s pretty awful at being a leader, and his struggles with the concept of taking responsibility for his Marines take up a good part of the novel in between a couple of furious combat actions. This was a good read, and I’m looking forward to checking the rest of the series out. Available on Kindle Unlimited.

I’m probably one of the last people in the world to get around to reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels, about Chicago’s only wizard for hire and his uneasy relationship with both the Chicago PD, local crimelord Johnny Marcone, and his nominal superiors in the White Council – to say nothing of all manner of supernatural critters, demons, vampires, and just plain Bad People. Right now I have some extra cash and plenty of free time, so I’m starting from the beginning and digging into what may be the most entertaining urban fantasy since I discovered Larry Correia’s Monster Hunters International series. So far I’m only up to book 3, Grave Peril, and Butcher does not disappoint. Looking forward to getting caught up on the other…fourteen books? Well, after moving out to the middle of nowhere (a/k/a Tonopah, NV) I’ll have nothing to do but eat, sleep, and work on my continuing education for next tax season, so I should have plenty of time to work on finishing the series.

So far nobody has taken me up on my offer regarding Uncle Bob’s Pursuit of the Pankera, and that’s all right with me, to be honest. Life is too short to be reading crappy books, unless you’re getting paid well for the effort.

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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Heat In The Street

Posted on | June 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Arson, Looting, Aggravated Assault and Attempted Murder Are Not ‘Protests’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
The Rabbit Hole
357 Magnum
Catallaxy Files
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Carol Alt
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
357 Magnum
Bacon Time
Dark Brightness
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: In The Heat Of The Night
Dark Brightness
A View From The Beach
EBL

Ivy League Terrorist
357 Magnum
EBL

Rioter vs. FedEx Truck: Guess Who Won?
EBL

‘Young Philadelphians’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.20 (Morning Edition)
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.02.20 (Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.03.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
357 Magnum
Pushing Rubber Downhill
A View From The Beach
EBL

Muslim Immigrant Attacks Police
Dark Brightness
EBL

A Reason to Riot, or a Pretext?
Dark Brightness
EBL

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Early Evening Edition)
Proof Positive
EBL

In The Mailbox: 06.05.20 (Late Night Edition)
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending June 5th:

  1. EBL (16)
  2. (tied) 357 Magnum & Proof Positive (6)
  3.  A View From The Beach (5)

Honorable Mentions – Dark Brightness, who got hosed out of a link last week because I screwed up (Calendars, how do they work?) and Pushing Rubber Downhill. All hail our ANZAC brothers!

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Category: FMJRA Award
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