‘Increasingly Abusive and Unstable’

Posted on | May 30, 2020 | Comments Off on ‘Increasingly Abusive and Unstable’

Given the recent riots, you may have forgotten Amy Cooper, who got fired from her job after an encounter in New York’s Central Park where she called 911 after a black man told her to put her dog on a leash. Now we learn that she has a history of inciting drama:

A former co-worker of Amy Cooper — the woman filmed calling 911 to report an African-American bird watcher for ‘threatening her life’ when he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park — has said he wasn’t surprised by the former banking exec’s erratic conduct, claiming he’s ‘seen that type of false hysteria before’.
Martin Priest, who first met Cooper while working at investment banking firm Lehman Brothers in 2003, told DailyMail.com how the now 41-year-old allegedly attempted to destroy his life with a series of ‘baseless’ allegations in a 2015 lawsuit.
Priest said he had been friends with Cooper for a number of years before the suit but says he began to distance himself from her sometime in 2012 when she confessed to having romantic feelings for him that weren’t reciprocated.
In the months that followed, Priest says he was routinely ‘harassed’ and ‘stalked’ by Cooper. He claims she would often leave him threatening texts and voicemails, in which she menaced that she would hurt him, his family members and even herself if he continued to ignore her.
The purported onslaught culminated in Priest contacting police in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in February 2013 to report her for harassment.
‘She became increasingly abusive and unstable,’ Priest told DailyMail.com. ‘I tried to get away from her as she became more outrageous and threatening with her demands.’
Priest said his attempts to oust Cooper from his life were made in vain. Just over a year later, on June 8, 2014, he would once again contact police, but this time in Long Island City, dialing 911 to accuse Cooper of attempting to break into his house.
‘I caught her in the act,’ Priest claimed. ‘She lied to my doorman pretending to be my sister and said she needed to get inside.
‘I was at home at the time — ignoring her calls — and she knocked on the door, then opened it and tried to walk inside. I got up, slammed the door shut and called the police.’
Priest said that by the time officers arrived, Cooper had fled the scene. ‘She texted a lot of crazy stuff afterwards,’ Priest recalled. . . .
Priest said he later received a call from Cooper, who, angered that he had called the cops on her, apparently told him she ‘wasn’t going to stop until she’d put him in the gutter’. . . .
The following year, Cooper filed a lawsuit against Priest — which has since been dismissed — claiming that she had been involved in a romantic relationship with the Wall Street trader from 2008 to 2012, while he was still with his first wife.
In the suit, she claimed she broke up with him when she learned of his marriage, but reconvened with him in October 2013 when that relationship ended. . . .
‘Those allegations were deeply hurtful to my family. I never had a romantic relationship with her,’ Priest told DailyMail.com. ‘It was all fabricated in retaliation of our falling out. It was an explicit attempt to damage me and my reputation. She told me on the phone she wasn’t going to stop until she put me in the gutter.’
The case was later dismissed when both Cooper and Priest failed to show up for court conferences in January and March 2018, DailyMail.com has confirmed.
‘She put all that damaging and false information out there and then just disappeared — derailing my career, hurting my family and reputation,’ Priest said.
‘It’s taken me years to rebuild my life after that,’ he continued. ‘I was unfairly maligned based upon the allegations that she made — the baseless allegations.
‘And so from that point, you know, obviously people would refuse to employ me … because of the voracity [sic] of the allegations.’

A bit of calculation will show that Cooper was about 33 when she met Priest. She had already “hit the wall,” as they say. She was past her peak SMV, and was at an age when the ticking of her biological clock could no longer be ignored. Whether or not she and Priest actually ever had any romantic involvement — I’m not sure I believe his denials — it would not be surprising that such a woman would become obsessed with a married man. Not surprising, that is, if you’ve read Rollo Tomassi’s book The Rational Male. It was Rollo who tipped me to this story.

The issue, you see, is not whether Amy Cooper is a “racist” (whatever that word means in 2020), but whether she is crazy.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.

Category: The Red Pill

Courageous Social Justice Activists Vandalize CNN Atlanta Headquarters

Posted on | May 29, 2020 | 2 Comments

When they were rioting in Minneapolis, they were thugs and hoodlums, but attacking CNN? Civil rights heroes:

A protest erupted at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta Friday amid nationwide demonstrations following the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, with many of the protesters seen vandalizing the entrance of the building in videos posted to social media.
A crowd gathered in front of the CNN Center and grew over the course of several hours, initially breaking windows and spray-painting the CNN sign, and later throwing objects — including what appeared to be a firecracker that exploded — and reportedly shooting BB guns into the lobby.
The iconic CNN sign, a popular tourist destination in the downtown area, was covered with graffiti and others were seen jumping on top of the structure.
A CNN journalist captured footage of a window being shattered by the crowd, which can be heard sparking cheers.
Law enforcement eventually cleared the area, pushing the crowd further down the street.
Reporting from CNN correspondent Nick Valencia showed multiple police cars that were set ablaze and Georgia State Police entering the scene.
“This is terrible to witness, it’s terrible to witness,” Valencia told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

Terrible? No, it’s beautiful. Karma is a beautiful thing.

If you were hoping to see the mob dragging Brian Stelter’s lifeless corpse through the streets or parading with Jake Tapper’s head on a pike, however, you’ll be disappointed, because Jake works out of CNN’s D.C. bureau and Stelter’s in New York, not the Atlanta headquarters.

Category: CNN, Crime

In The Mailbox: 05.29.20

Posted on | May 29, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Complete Collapse Of Bluetooth Security
Red Pilled Jew: Minnesota & Metastasizing Riots – Am I Dialing Paranoia To “11”?
EBL: Amy Klobuchar & The Death Of George Floyd
Twitchy: Newly Declassified Flynn-Kisylak Transcripts Should End General’s Three Year Long Nightmare
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Claims #MinnesotaRiot Is Mostly Peaceful While Standing In Front Of A Burning Building
Vox Popoli: No More Hiding Behind 230, also, The Inevitable End
According To Hoyt: Nothing To Live Or Die For, also, At The End Of Time

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Hope & Humor On G.K. Chesterton’s 146th Birthday
American Greatness: Chris Wallace And The Weekly Standardization Of Fox News
American Power: Economic Relief Programs Will Soon End – Then Watch Out For The Coming Political Earthquake
American Thinker: The New Internet Censorship, also, K-12? Elon Musk Says Take The Red Pill
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five 1776 Friday V
Babalu Blog: Cuban Woman Who Dedicated Her Life To Castro Regime’s Repressive Interior Ministry Now Lives In Squalor
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 29
Cafe Hayek: Even Worthwhile Projects Are Costly
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Trump Fighting General Sherman’s War, also, DaTechGuy Off The Radio Podcast
Don Surber: Explaining Joe Biden’s Purpose To Rush Limbaugh
First Street Journal: Libertarian Party Nominates Jo Jorgenson For President
The Geller Report: Atlanta Riots – CNN HQ Heavily Damaged, also, Chicago’s Mayor Lightfoot Beclowns Herself Again
Hogewash: In Today’s Mail, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Vast Of Night Announces Bold New Cinematic Voice, also, Why The High Note Should Have Gone All The Way
JustOneMinute: What Else?
Legal Insurrection: Van Jones – Blacks Need To Worry More About “White Liberal Hillary Clinton Supporters”, also, The Walls are Closing In On Andrew Cuomo
The PanAm Post: Twitter Sides With Democrats, Attacks Trump, also, Brazil Stands With Taiwan Against Red China
Power Line: Minneapolis Meltdown Spreads, also, Tragedy & Comedy In The Twin Cities
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says Florida’s Ready To Host The RNC
Shot In The Dark: Siege
STUMP: STUMP Classics – The Many Deaths Of Sean Bean
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – A Mini-Debate About Health Care, Part IV – Choice
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Red Chinese Media Says U.S. Should Stand With Minneapolis Rioters
Victory Girls: Don Lemon Doesn’t Want To Hear From Donald Trump
Volokh Conspiracy: Let Hongkongers – And Other Victims Of Red Chinese Oppression – Immigrate
Weasel Zippers: Trump – We’re Terminating Our Relationship With WHO, also, Minneapolis Is An Abject Failure Of Mayoral Governance
Mark Steyn: Locked Down But Looting

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | May 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty

He ran through the forest toward the bingo point.
Got to get back to the Moon.

No time to worry about why the mission failed.
Shot through the arm.
No time for pain. Run.
The full moon provided enough light as the clearning emerged.
Glancing leg shot. Dogs barking as they scented his blood.
Green glow of the Transport Potion.
Shot blew off his other arm and he fell beside it.
Losing blood rapidly, he picked it up.
The glow attracted a shot, and the bottle vanished with his hand, showering him in the Oil of Transport, returning him moonward. . .
—
via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Anarchy in Minneapolis: Democrats Celebrate Rioters Who Burned Down City

Posted on | May 29, 2020 | 4 Comments

Anarchy is the worst of evils that can afflict a people. Societies can survive the cruelty of tyrants and the blunders of demogratic governments, but anarchy — the destruction of law — brings about a state of affairs in which no man’s life or property is safe. Minneapolis did not have to go up in flames Thursday night. I watched live, in real time, as authorities surrendered the city to the mob. The mayor seems to be the sort of worthless liberal one typically finds in California, and the media’s role in fomenting this riot was familiar: Endless replaying of video of a racial “incident” on cable news, so that the audience is subjected to the image of George Floyd being suffocated to death over and over and over.

The media don’t do this because they are interested in “social justice”; they do it because they believe that this kind of coverage will help “energize” black voters and thus elect more Democrats. And when, predictably, there is a backlash against this media-driven political narrative — when people reject the intended message — the result is condemned as proof of white racism. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Once you’ve been through a few of these cycles, you cease to be surprised by the irresponsibility of the media who incite violent disorders:

Protests over the police-involved death of George Floyd continued well into the morning Friday after a third night of violence in Minneapolis, while similar disturbances broke out in Louisville and other parts of the country.
Late Thursday, demonstrators set fire to a police precinct building in the Minneapolis neighborhood where Floyd died Monday after he was restrained by a Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck.
Floyd had been arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bill at a grocery store.
The precinct building had been evacuated by order of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who said he was unwilling to endanger lives to protect the building.
“I understand the importance of a precinct,” he said. “[But] the symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our officers, or the public. We could not risk serious injury to anyone and we will continue to patrol the third precinct entirely.”
At 4:30 a.m. Friday, protesters and looters still were out on the streets in the neighborhood as several nearby commercial buildings burned unchecked.
Firefighters arrived shortly afterward, accompanied by state police in riot gear, who began to arrest people in the area, including a CNN reporter and crew members.
CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and three crew members were taken into custody live on the air. The news organization immediately criticized the arrests and called for their release.
CNN President Jeff Zucker later said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “deeply apologizes” for the arrests. They were released after about an hour in custody, CNN said.
The unrest also spread to neighboring St. Paul, where protesters looted a Target store and set fire to several businesses along a busy commercial corridor.
Earlier in the night, National Guard troops were deployed in the two cities at Walz’s order.
The governor said he issued the order at the request of local leaders who called on the state government for National Guard resources after “extensive damage to private property” occurred during the protests.

The idea that these criminals were “protesters” or “demonstrators” is an insult to the intelligence of everyone who watched — and the videos were streaming all over Twitter — as thieves and vandals not only destroyed a police precinct station, but looted or damaged some 170 businesses. The media, however, continued promoting the narrative that anyone who condemned the riots was thereby endorsing police brutality. This is what students of logic call the false dilemma fallacy, pretending that there are only two possible alternatives (in this case, being pro-riot or being pro-racism) when many other viewpoints exist.

Something that Andrew Breitbart always said: “Turn the camera around.”

Make the media the story. Expose their tactics. Call out their errors.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

Category: Crime, Media Bias, Racism

In The Mailbox: 05.28.20

Posted on | May 29, 2020 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Drugs Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
EBL: Democrats In Charge – Minneapolis Burning
Twitchy: Kayleigh McEnany Hits CNN’s Jim Acosta With His Own Network’s Fake News After Acosta Asks About Fact-Checking
Louder With Crowder: Zuckerberg Criticizes Twitter For Fact-Checking President Trump
Vox Popoli: Don’t Threaten, Just Do It, also, The Cloud Police

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Ann Coulter – Exhibit A Of Why Women Writers Are Rubbish
American Conservative: Trump’s Trade War With Red China Could Lead To Xi’s Downfall
American Greatness: Rioting, Protesting Continue Over Death of George Floyd
American Thinker: Stock Market Tells The Tale – Trump Set To Win In November, also, Pennsylvania Shows How Democrats Can Steal An Election
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Dirty Rats News
Babalu Blog: Castro Regime Pockets Millions From Slave Doctors Sent To Algeria
BattleSwarm: All Red China’s Lies And The Sad Death Of Hong Kong
Cafe Hayek: Apparently, They Aren’t Really All That Smart
CDR Salamander: Have You Read Your Hopkirk?
Da Tech Guy: Blind Obedience To The Government Has Never Been An American Virtue, also, Maps, Trump, Mitt, Morning Joe, Mueller & Sleepy Joe Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Mueller Shows The FBI Needs Disbanding
First Street Journal: Backstreet Grub! also, A Hoity-Toity College Doesn’t Paper Over Inequality
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Tweets Gleefully As Minneapolis Burns, also, Israel Cancels $1.5 Billion Deal With Red China After U.S. Pressure
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, “Good Faith”
Hollywood In Toto: Roger Waters Claims Evangelical Christians Hate The Jews, also, The Battle For America’s Understanding Of Its True Self
JustOneMinute: Free The Net!
Legal Insurrection: Kiss Amy Klobuchar’s Veep Chances Goodbye, also, Trump Signs Social Media Bias Executive Order
The PanAm Post: Red China Threatens “Cold War” Against U.S., also, Iran Sets Up Spy Operations In Venezuela
Power Line: Minneapolis Meltdown, also, Slow Joe Does It Again
Shark Tank: Rep. Gaetz Slams Social Media Companies For “Editorializing”
Shot In The Dark: Hey, DFL – You Do Own This
STUMP: Would Pensions Really Have To Be Cut In State Bankruptcies?
The Political Hat: Rejection Of The Biological Binary – Menses Envy, Gender-Neutral Toys, & “Certain Genders”
This Ain’t Hell: Red China Passes Hong Kong Security Law, also, Valor For Sale
Victory Girls: Fact-Checker Needs Fact-Checking On Twitter
Volokh Conspiracy: 47 USC 230 And The Publisher/Distributor/Platform Distinction
Weasel Zippers: RNC Video – “The ‘Scandal-Free’ Obama/Biden Administration”, also, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Breaks Down On Air Over Her White Privilege
Mark Steyn: The Supreme Ayatollahs Of Expertistan

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Category: Linkagery

‘Fact-Based Truth’: MSNBC Demonized Ron DeSantis; Where’s the Apology?

Posted on | May 28, 2020 | 3 Comments

Mike Barnicle, Morning Joe, Monday, March 23:

“Joe, if you talk to a lot of experts — I was fortunate enough to spend most of Friday afternoon around one of the greatest hospitals in the world, Brigham and Women’s here in Boston — you find out their view of what they’re looking at and what they’re dealing with every day. And in the case of Governor DeSantis of Florida, he’s going exactly the opposite way from what the experts, the people on the front lines, indicate ought to be done. The first thing we need is the fact-based truth from public officials. That’s what they will tell you. You get it here in Massachusetts from Charlie Baker, you’re getting it from Andrew Cuomo in New York, Gavin Newsom in California, the governors of Illinois and Michigan, and you’re getting fact-based truth.”

So, according to Mike Barnicle, the “experts” were agreed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was doing the exact opposite of what was needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Barnicle specifically contrasted Florida’s governor to the governors of Massachusetts, New York, California, Illinois and Michigan, where “fact-based truth” allegedly prevailed.

Well, where are we now, more than two months later? How did Barnicle’s “expert” opinion fare? Here are the per-capita coronavirus death rates (deaths per million residents) for these states:

New York ………………………. 1,519
Massachusetts ………………… 950
Michigan ………………………… 534
Illinois ……………………………. 400
Florida …………………………… 108
California ……………………….. 100

So, Florida’s death rate has been 93% lower than New York, 89% lower than Massachusetts, 80% lower than Michigan, 73% lower than Illinois. The only state named by Barnicle that has done better than Florida in terms of its COVID-19 death rate is California. Given that Barnicle is such a proponent of “fact-based truth,” doesn’t it seem to you that the viewers of MSNBC deserve an explanation of why he got this so wrong?

Keep in mind that on March 23, when Barnicle was busy smearing Ron DeSantis and the MSNBC chyron declared that Florida’s coronavirus cases had passed the 1,000 mark, Massachusetts had only 777 known cases. Two weeks later, however, the situation had reversed, with Massachusetts reporting 15,202 cases on April 7, when Florida had 14,707 cases. Now? Massachusetts has 94,220 cases and 6,547 deaths, compared to 52,634 cases and 2,320 deaths in Florida — almost twice as many cases, and nearly three times as many deaths, despite the fact that Florida’s population (21.5 million) is more than three times larger than the population of Massachusetts (6.9 million).

(Hat-tip: David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon.)