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In The Mailbox: 06.24.20

Posted on | June 24, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles mystery Box, Episode #1027
357 Magnum: Every Bullet Comes With A Lawyer Attached
EBL: Flynn Free, Judge Sullivan Chastised By Appeals Court
Twitchy: NYT Editor Gets Schooled After Ridiculing Lindsey Graham’s French Revolution Analogy
Louder With Crowder: Democrats Prove Black Lives Don’t Matter To Them, And Tim Scott Is Pissed
Vox Popoli: The Only Way To Win, also, White Liberals Learn Slowly

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: You’re Too Short For This Ride
American Conservative: Here Come The Bourgeois Bolsheviks
American Greatness: Another Day, Another Race Hoax, also, Indictments Likely In Durham, Antifa Financing Probes
American Thinker: Resisting The Mob & Restoring Order
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty III
Babalu Blog: Nicole Malliotakis Wins GOP Primary In New York
BattleSwarm: Apple Dumps Intel
Cafe Hayek: Cases Are Not Deaths
CDR Salamander: Shipyard Defense In Depth
Da Tech Guy: COVID-19 – What The Media & Democrats Don’t Want You To Recognize, also, Wednesday Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Court Stops The Railroading Of General Flynn
First Street Journal: True Confession – I’ve Made Hangman’s Nooses!
Fred On Everything: A Country Not Salvageable
The Geller Report: Newly Released Strzok Notes Directly Implicate Obama & Biden In Flynn’s Persecution, also, Soros Says Now Is A “Revolutionary Moment” Where The “Inconceivable Is Necessary”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, I Guess We Were Statistical Outliers
Hollywood In Toto: Jon Stewart’s Irresistible Flirts With Fair & Balanced Satire, also, Chelsea Handler Curses Out Her Critics, Then Grovels For Forgiveness
Legal Insurrection: Videos Emerge Of White Leftist Protesters Trying To Lecture Black Cops On Racism, also, Mob Vows To Tear Down DC’s Emancipation Memorial
Michelle Malkin: Hoaxed By #FakeNoose Again
The PanAm Post: Russians Want To Sell Lenin To Cover Deficit, also, A Churchill Statue For Each Town Square
Power Line: The Hollowness Of Virtue Signaling, also, Judge Sullivan Ordered To Dismiss Flynn Case
Shark Tank: FL Realtors Announce 2020 Election Cycle Picks
Shot In The Dark: Transit Memorial Day
STUMP: Thoughts On The Passing Scene
This Ain’t Hell: Iranian Missile Program Moves Forward, also, Keeping History & Statues In Their Proper Places
Victory Girls: Bubba Wallace Wants His Victim Status
Volokh Conspiracy: The Law Protects Religious Liberty Far More Than Most People Think
Weasel Zippers: “If Someone’s Wearing A MAGA Hat, I’m Going To Delete Them For Terrorism”, also, National Guard Deployed To DC (Again) To Protect Monuments
Mark Steyn: Happy Grow-A-Spineteenth! also, Better Dead Than Ted

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Category: Linkagery

Fake Noose, Fake News

Posted on | June 24, 2020 | 2 Comments

 

Not a hate crime:

The FBI has determined that a noose found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday had been there since at least last year, according to the bureau.
A statement issued by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said that an investigation has concluded that no federal crime was committed.
“The FBI learned that garage number 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019,” the bureau said. “Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week.”
Further details were not immediately released. The FBI said no charges would be pursued in relation to the incident.

The supposed “noose” was just the rope pull-down handle for the garage door, where somebody had tied a loop in it for a handle. No one who had spent any time around that track could have thought this was a racial threat, but for some reason, NASCAR officials did, and triggered days of hysterical self-denunciation by NASCAR officials and drivers.

Bubba Wallace went on The View and said only “simpleminded” people would doubt this was a hate crime:

“People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good or help them sleep at night,” he said, adding, “Simpleminded people like that, the ones who are afraid of change, they use everything in their power to defend what they stand for.”

Got that? You’re just stupid and “afraid of change.”




 

Category: NASCAR, Racism

Old And Busted: Auto-da-fé
New Hotness: Tina da Fey

Posted on | June 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Old And Busted: Auto-da-fé
New Hotness: Tina da Fey

by Smitty

An auto-da-fé (from Portuguese auto da fé, meaning ‘act of faith’) was the ritual of public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican Inquisition as punishment and enforced by civil authorities. Its most extreme form was death by burning.


via Lifezette,

NBC Universal announced this week that it would be removing four episodes of the hit show “30 Rock” that featured characters in blackface. In the wake of this announcement, the show’s creator and star Tina Fey has issued a groveling apology for her role in the episodes. “As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing makeup are best taken out of circulation,” said Fey, who frequently bashes President Donald Trump.

There is little for me to add to the current reaction to our Lefty Inquisition, whose number one weapon is fear and surprise. Two! Two main weapons are fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to Marx.
Yesterday was a low-turnout primary election for the GOP challenger for Senator Bucky Warner here in Virginia this November.
I had thought Trump was on a glide slope to re-election, until the ‘rona. Now I’m past predicting anything other than a wild ride. Keep your powder dry, patriots!

Category: Uncategorized

In The Mailbox: 06.23.20

Posted on | June 23, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.23.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Pagan Vigil: Courage & Continuity
357 Magnum: The Statement That Will Get Brown Fired From The Chicago PD
EBL: How About Some Dodo?
Twitchy: Watch As Mostly Peaceful Protester From Black House Autonomous Zone Attempts Running Tackle On Andrea Mitchell
Louder With Crowder: Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears For Children Of Slain Officers Now Receiving Death Threats From Liberals
Vox Popoli: How To Fight The Woke & Win, also, Dismantling Western Civilization

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The United States Was Doomed From The Start
American Conservative: Why Conservative Fusionism Was Destined To Disintegrate
American Greatness: The Con Of The Surrender Cons, also, FBI Investigation Confirms Bubba Wallace Not A Victim of Hate Crime
American Thinker: The Political Genius Of Donald Trump
Animal Magnetism: Vacation Totty II
Babalu Blog: Black Lives Matter’s Disturbing Ties To The Murderous Maduro Regime
BattleSwarm: Making Hay While The Sun Shines, also, #BlackLivesMatter Is A Radical Marxist Organization
Cafe Hayek: Just Wondering
CDR Salamander: When Treaties Die
Da Tech Guy: Eight Post-Trump Rally Thoughts, also, Report From Louisiana – More Protests
Don Surber: Trump Hits High Tech In The Wallet
First Street Journal: The End Of #Antifastan?
Fred On Everything:
The Geller Report: “If Someone Is Wearing A MAGA Hat I’ll Delete Them For Terrorism”, also, Trophy Husband John F. Kerry* Threatens Revolution In November If Trump Wins
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Sunsets
Hollywood In Toto: Jon Stewart Can’t Resist Cheap Shot Against “Racist” Gun Owners, also, Schumacher Made Batman Campy Again
JustOneMinute: No Noose Is Good Noose
Legal Insurrection: Andrew Cuomo Calls Criticism Of Fatal Nursing Home Bungling “Political Charade”, also, After Violent Fathers Day, Chicago Alderman Wants “More Outrage”
The PanAm Post: The Links Between #BlackLivesMatter & Maduro Revealed, also, Feminists Don’t Want Conservative Women Working In Politics
Power Line: A Heroine For Our Time, also, I Was Wrong About Bolton
Shark Tank: Diaz-Balart Slams Biden Over Venezuela
Shot In The Dark: While We’re Destroyign Things With Objectionable Cultural Connotations
The Political Hat: Corona-Chan Gets Kinky In New York
This Ain’t Hell: The Inconvenient Truth About The Democratic Party, also, Soldier Leaks Classified Info To Neo-Nazis, Al-Qaeda
Victory Girls: Liberals Claim Rejecting Vote-By-Mail Is Voter Suppression
Volokh Conspiracy: The Fifteenth Anniversary Of Kelo v. New London
Weasel Zippers: D.C. Reporter Says Democrats Quietly Admit Biden Lacks “Mental Acuity”, also, “When You Tear Down Statues of Washington & Grant, It’s Not About The Civil War – It’s Because You Hate America”
Megan McArdle: Where Do We Draw The Line In Tearing Down Statues?
Mark Steyn: Melting Down, also, The Costs Of Mann Delay

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Category: Linkagery

Rayshard Brooks’ Girlfriend Arrested

Posted on | June 23, 2020 | Comments Off on Rayshard Brooks’ Girlfriend Arrested

 

Her lawyer denies she burned down the Wendy’s:

The woman named as a suspect in the Wendy’s restaurant fire that broke out during protests over Rayshard Brooks’ death in Atlanta has been arrested and is facing charges of first-degree arson, authorities said Tuesday.
The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a tweet that Natalie White was in custody and being booked into the county jail.
White’s lawyer, Drew Findling, said his client did not start the June 13 fire.
When asked by CNN whether his client knew Rayshard Brooks, Findling said, “Yes, but I will not comment on the extent of their relationship.”
Findling said he wanted to keep the focus on what he called the “tragic and unnecessary death of Rayshard Brooks,” whose funeral was held Tuesday.
Previously, CNN reported investigators were looking into whether Brooks and White knew each other.
In body camera video released by police, Brooks can be heard telling the officers who questioned him that Natalie White was his girlfriend.

Previously: “Surprising Plot Twist in Atlanta: ‘Girlfriend’ Is Suspect in Wendy’s Arson.”

UPDATE: In a comment to the New York Post, Ms. White’s lawyer went so far as to admit that his client was “good friends” with Brooks.




 

Category: Crime, Georgia

The Hotepping of America

Posted on | June 23, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

Do you know what “hotep” means? Supposedly, hotep is an ancient Egyptian word meaning “peace,” but the word has become slang for promoters of a crude system of Afrocentric beliefs, with overtones of black nationalism tending toward paranoid conspiracy theories:

In Afrocentrism and black nationalism of the late 20th century, influenced by the “Black Egyptian hypothesis”, “Hotep” was adopted as a formula or greeting. Since the 1990s, “a Hotep” has come to be used to refer to a proponent of radical or fanatical black nationalism.

What are #BlackLivesMatter and “The 1619 Project” except the reconstruction of American culture to reflect such beliefs? It can be demonstrated, as a matter of statistical certainty, that racist police brutality is actually rare, and certainly not an epidemic requiring a “national conversation.” Yet we see plenty of white fools literally bending the knee in obeisance to what is merely an elaborate version of the “blame whitey” hotep mentality, dressed up in academic jargon.

This is why you have ignorant mobs attacking statues of practically every white person who has ever been honored with a statue. Because history is not taught properly in our schools — and logic is not taught at all — young people are easily duped by propaganda, and willing to engage in criminal acts of destruction, so long as they are furnished with slogans to convince them that “social justice” is thereby advanced.

Why do you think we see so many allegedly “educated” white people pushing themselves to the forefront of these riotous protests? Because they are not sufficiently street-smart to recognize the distinct scent of paranoid nonsense. They have been completely hotepped.




 

Category: Racism

Black People Celebrate ‘Juneteenth’ Weekend by Shooting Each Other

Posted on | June 23, 2020 | 1 Comment

You can’t blame racist police for this:

Three people were killed and at least 11 hurt early Monday after a multi-day street party erupted in lots of gunfire in northwest Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.
Five of the injured people were struck by cars as they began scrambling across streets away from the chaotic scene, police said. Three of the people who were injured are fighting for their lives, police said.
There have been no arrests, no suspects and no indication of a motive for the killings yet. . . .
“It was a very, very chaotic scene,” Deputy Chief Gerald Smith said at the news conference. “This was a mass casualty incident.” . . .
Jennings described the outdoor event as a multi-day “impromptu block party” for Juneteenth that had been running off-and-on since Friday.
The official Juneteenth celebration included a March through the neighborhood Friday but continued in several unofficial celebrations throughout the weekend, Smith said.
Juneteenth celebrates the events of June 19, 1865, when the last of the nation’s enslaved people learned they had been set free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Witnesses told WBTV the neighborhood’s Juneteenth affair had been “a happy, peaceful celebration” prior to the violence. Street racing and drivers “doing donuts in the road” had been part of the celebration, witnesses told the station.
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles issued a statement calling the shootings “a senseless act of violence” that marred the holiday festivities. “What should have been a joyous celebration of freedom, became a moment where people lost their lives,” Lyles said in a series of tweet.
“How tragic is this?” Lyles told WCNC TV. “This is the heart beat of the Black community. This is our city, our neighborhood, our people … We’ve had a lot in the last couple of years, but this has to be the worst.”

Just go ahead and tear down some more Confederate statues, because obviously dead guys from 150 years ago are to blame for this.




 

Category: Crime, North Carolina

The Definition of ‘Execrable’

Posted on | June 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

 

The word originally meant, deserving of curses:

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead writer for the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” caught backlash Sunday for telling people to “read” a conspiracy theory about the use of fireworks being an attack by the government “on Black and Brown communities.”
Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” suggests America’s “true founding” was when the first slaves arrived in 1619 and “aims to reframe the country’s history.” The NYT writer won a Pulitzer Prize in commentary for her work related to the “1619 Project,” despite numerous historians raising objections to some of its claims.
“Read this,” Hannah-Jones tweeted Sunday about a conspiracy theory suggesting the government was planning attacks on minority communities. The post suggested that the numerous fireworks going off in Brooklyn over the past two weeks is actually “part of a coordinated attack on Black and Brown communities by government forces.”
This alleged “attack” is intended “to disorient and destabilize the #BlackLivesMatter movement,” the claim, written by author Robert Jones Jr., reads. Hannah-Jones appeared to delete her tweet and deactivate her Twitter following backlash. She appeared to [reactivate] her account shortly after, according to reports.

She is certainly deserving of curses.

Of course, if fireworks are “part of a coordinated attack,” you’ll want to help support my family’s Fourth of July fireworks show. Because racism.




 

Category: Fireworks, New York Times, Racism
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